I want, and do not want Naomi Novik’s League of Dragons to come out. I want it to come out because it is a Temeraire novel (which is to say, a military historical novel about dragons in Napoleonic-era England and the British aerial corps that takes them to war); but I do not want it to come out because then the series will be finished. Patrick O’Brian had this problem himself, as I recall. Patrick O’Brian would have also loved this series.
And so, adieu to Flashman and the Mountain of Light. I also think that George MacDonald Fraser would have enjoyed this series, but a good deal more gruffly.
The good news is that Novik’s in her early 40s, and so probably has quite a few books left in her. If Uprooted is anything to go by, she’s quite capable of creating worlds just as interesting as Temeraire’s.
Also, do you have an ARC or something? Amazon says the publication date is in June.
No, I just REALLY WANT THIS BOOK. BotW is a subjective thing for me; I will sometimes enter one in that I haven’t gotten yet, but I know I’m going to get the second it comes out.
I have to be honest, Moe. The only reason I finished Tongue of Serpents was I was convinced that it would stop sucking by the next chapter. Needless to say, I haven’t been following it since.
Correction: It was Crucible of Gold where I gave up. Guess that I blanked that memory out.
eh, at that point you might as well read Blood of Tyrants, which does pick things up again somewhat.