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[moonwise]

My husband has started reading Harry Potter. He's been carrying the book around the house, and it's adorable. Now, if I could only get him to try His Majesty's Dragon, given his penchant for Patrick O'Brien books...

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[lizardqueen.livejournal.com]

I loooooove PO'B...what's this dragon book about?

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Naomi Novik has written a series of books (http://www.amazon.com/Temeraire-Vol-1-3-Bonus-Poster/dp/0345489241/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251252138&sr=1-8) that are a pastiche of the Napoleonic Wars, if the warships had air support in the form of dragons. In the first book, the sea-captain William Laurence captures a dragon egg from the French as a prize, and he ends up trading his life at sea for the Air Corps when the dragon Temeraire hatches and decides that Laurence will be his captain. Temeraire is quite special (naturally) and the two of them fight the French together for the freedom of England.

I haven't read the Aubrey-Maturin books myself, but my husband tells me that the books always end with Aubrey in some sort of trouble that is resolved/continued in the next book. Novik has followed this pattern, and it does keep you interested in the next one...

[ssilverfish.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'll have to let my husband know about those. He really liked the Patrick O'Brien stuff and has been on a fantasy kick lately. Sounds like the perfect thing.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Then he would definitely like these books. The fourth book, Empire of Ivory is IMO a little slow and too reminiscent of Anne McCaffrey's Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, but it picks up again with the fifth book Victory of Eagles when Novik writes more from Temeraire's perspective.