Title: His Majesty's Dragon
Author: Naomi Novik
Rating:
4.5 stars out of 5Publisher: Del Rey
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 384
Keywords: fantasy, alternate history
Reading period: 26 July, 2010
The first in the Temeraire series.
Capt. Will Laurence of the Royal Navy captures one of Napoleon's ships.
It's carrying a dragon egg, from which the dragon Temeraire
promptly hatches and bonds with Laurence.
Laurence must leave the Navy and become an aviator in the socially undesirable
Royal Aerial Corps, where he and Temeraire will fight against Napoleon's dragons.
This is a delightful cross between the Napoleonic seafaring of the Aubrey-Maturin novels
and Dragonriders of Pern, with a little bit of Hogwarts for dragons thrown in.
Temeraire is a precocious and intellectually curious dragon of exceptional abilities,
who charms not only the readers but most of those he meets.
I'm looking forward to reading the next few books in the series.