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

[conuly]

Wait, really!?

[siderea]

Yeah, maybe? In my case, my consumption of fiction/media pretty much collapsed. One part of that is that I didn't have time while I was going through grad school, clinical internships, etc, so got out of the habit. But a good chunk of it is that when I did attempt to consume fiction, I found it way boring in comparison to my job.

[conuly]

That explains why you don't often comment on posts about fiction. I'm glad your job is so interesting to you, even if I can't imagine not finding fiction that much interesting anymore.

[siderea]

In fairness, also I am just bad at commenting. Case in point, I did read Zen Cho's "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again"* from your recent link post, and enjoyed the heck out of it**, but failed to ever get back here to say so.

• Also? Just went to see the third "How to Train Your Dragon" movie, which also gets into the ethics of dragon ownership and human-dragon relations, so I was already thinky about and pretty radicalized re Dragon Liberationism before this post of yours. LET ME TELL YOU HOW I FEEL ABOUT TEMERAIRE.

** OH MY HEART. When the protag offered to eat the tenure committee is where I about launghed until I cried, thinking, "surely the purest expression of love", and then suddenly realized where this had to be going and that this story was gonna make me cry for real which it totally did.

[conuly]

Stories which make you cry are the best stories, excepting the ones that don't but you keep returning to.