Amazon review....

[conuly]

I️ thoroughly enjoyed the Temeraire series, right up until this book. Like the others, it was well-written with a brand new setting and a brand new plot. However, the plot while starting out good, wobbled in the middle, and collapsed entirely in the end. Maybe someone else could appreciate the wishful deviation from history and what will assuredly be a miraculous recovery from the ending in the next book, but not me. I’m done with the Temeraire series, which saddens me because it was, up until this book, a very pleasant, historically brilliant series to read.

For context, the series in question features dragons in the Napoleonic Wars.

Comments

[thewayne]

"Wishful deviation from history" when the entire series begins in book 1 with dragons? Wow. Someone doesn't understand the concept of historical-based fantasy.

This review deserves thorough ridicule. This is right up there with a bag of peanuts with a label "Warning: this product made in a facility that processes peanuts."

[landofnowhere]

Admittedly, the first three books don't stray too far from our history (I think), so it's not that unreasonable for a reader to expect a blow-by-blow retelling of the Napoleonic wars with added dragons and interesting sea voyages. It's just that what Novik does with the series is far more interesting than that.

[thewayne]

I don't remember how far I got in to that series, perhaps not much further than 3 or 4.  My wife was much more devoted to it.  I enjoyed it, I just kind of fell away from it.  One of these days I hope to re-read them.