What if you wrote a book that was alternate history, where the Napoleonic Wars happened with aerial combat? And that aerial combat was dragons? You'd have a totally awesome series!!
The first time I read this book was with a book group. I admit, I didn't expect to like it much --- I mean, it sounded weird. However, I completely enjoyed the first book, and read all the way through the series. So this month, instead of re-reading the first book in the series, I tried the audiobook.
I think the audiobook makes this book even better. The man reading the book does a fantastic job --- voices for each character, and in a way that makes complete sense. You buy that of course there are dragons used in the aerial corps in the Napoleonic War. You completely buy that of course, dragons are intelligent and talk. Novik writes in such a way that you get pulled into the story and everything makes sense. Read by Simon Vance, this book is immensely enjoyable.
I've already grabbed the second book in the series as an audiobook to listen to ----- and unfortunately, will have to see out the rest, as our library doesn't have any other audiobooks of this series.
Here is summary, courtesy of Goodreads:
Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future – and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire
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