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Finally got around to reading the next book in the Temeraire series. When I'm reading these books, I'm totally into them. When I'm not reading them, I don't care about them haha Novik uses a rather formal language for these to make them sound more old-fashioned. It mostly works, but also makes them come through as rather impersonal at times. I love the characters, the concept, and the story, but somehow these books just don't hook me in. ⬇

This is the 3rd book in the Temeraire series. I thoroughly enjoyed it. In this one Laurence and his company leave China & travel through the old Silk Road to Istanbul to pick up 3 dragon eggs for Great Britain 🐉
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Current #Audiobook through OverDrive!
Almost done, just another hour and a half to go!

#Two4Tuesday

1. No I never have. But I know through Amazon they offer deals where you can buy both the ebook and the audiobook.

2. I multitask all the time when listening: working, crafting, daydreaming! Yes, the advantage is that I‘m able to read more books in a year; usually works out to be half of the books are audiobooks.

I enjoy these books, but they are slow paced and I certainly don't feel need to read them back to back. Eventually I'll jump back in, but I'm going to try to get through a lot of other books on my shelves first

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Back to Novik!

I can‘t wait to read more!

3rd time reading this series and I still just can‘t get enough

#tbrbingo for 2020! I just started Black Powder War a little before midnight last night.

No escapism for me, apparently.

"Justice is expensive, that's why there's so little of it...there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he may be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the less easy to uproot."

Vacationing with the family and our hotel has a Read It and Return lending library 📚😍 Thank you Penguin Random House!

This is the third book in a fantasy - Napoleonic Wars world with dragons!

I took a break from these books after just loving book 1 and putting it on my all time favorites list, then being rather bored in book 2. I really enjoyed this one, it doesn‘t have quite the pizazz of the first but is a drastic improvement on the second, and I‘m loving being back with Lawrence and temeraire 🐉 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Will Lawrence and his dragon, Temeraire, are finally on their way back to England from their trip to China. When the transport ship burns and urgent orders come to get dragon eggs, Lawrence hires a guide to take them overland. Adventures with feral dragons and unknown lands ensue, all the while with Napoleon's forces a growing threat.

I love this fantasy series, the characters, and the humor. I'm rereading earlier books to finish the series.

I finished it! Yay!
Such a wonderful story, with charming characters. I love Temeraire.

Some pre sleep reading. I'm desperately hoping to finish this tonight or tomorrow. I want to start on my summer reading, but I want to finish the series as well and gah

With my essay submitted ahead of the due date, I have all the time to read. Yay! Bring on the little dragon

A satisfying number but it's way too early to get up. So I'll read a chapter and then go back to sleep.

Just one chapter before sleep. I'm exhausted but I miss Temeraire too much.

7am is an excellent time for #ItsSoLateItsEarly reading, right?
Right?

Very minimal #ItsSoLateItsEarly reading. Hayfever is really affecting my sight.

Contuing with the most adorable dragon in the Napoleonic war. I have to do a lot of academic reading this month, and this series is such a great way to relax

A chapter before sleep... At 8.30am. Remember when I had a normal sleep pattern?
Nah me neither. #ItsSoLateItsEarly

I got maoams, I got music, I got my books, who could ask for anything more?
Me, probably, I'd quite like it to be snowing. But onwards with the series!

The cat thought it unreasonable that I wanted a photo of books. Nevertheless I am enjoying the series. I read several Napoleonic era series as a kid - Patrick O'Brien and Bernard Cornwall because my older brother owned them - and this series adds dragons 🐉 so how could I not enjoy it? I also like that Novik continues to develop the themes of freedom and self-determination for the dragons.

I want a dragon emoji

This wasn't as good as I was hoping. There was a lot of traveling around and not a lot of action for the majority of the novel. It was definitely setting up something bigger so I'll have to read he next one soon.
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For #black I have the next Temeraire novel I need to read... just started this series recently and I am loving it.

But for #pearl we have a book I wouldn't know I had if it wasn't for my trusty Goodreads shelves. Appears I bought this for my kindle in 2013. 😳😂

2017 #51 fantasy audio I didn't enjoy this one as much. Not because there was anything wrong but because I was frustrated with the characters. Again not in the writing but because the writing was so good I wanted to climb into the book and smack some non colonial sense into the characters. +

Most depressing book so far, but still love this series! Temeraire makes this. Also much easier to do even these short reviews on and iPad; would be far easier in landscape mode, though!

Dragon masturbation. That is definitely a first for me. Wow.

I loved the first two books but this one just isn't holding my attention so I've had to let it go. I don't know if I'm just not in a place to read this book right now or if it's the story but I feel like I just don't care as I'm reading it. What's wrong with me??? It's about dragons!!! 😵

Enjoyable as always. A great series for fans of author Patrick O'Brien and dragons.

This quote really spoke to me. Life feels really unfair at times.

I wish publishers realize ebook borrowers and readers appreciate the actual cover art too.

I also wish my 3yo would give me a few moments of peace to have an after-dinner Kirin and read my book but that's just not happening right now!

And with that I have completed my reading challenge for the year.
Yes, 50 is not such a big number, but I've only started the challenge during the summer
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This one felt a little long in some parts. The Prussian campaign was a bit too long for my taste. I liked the whole silk road trip. I've read a lot on that area and how caravans traveled across the silk road. It was done well. I liked the feral dragons and how the role they played in the novel. I have no idea how Temeraire is going to reconcile his view of dragon's rights to the reality of Laurence's England. 👍

Today's #booktober post made me want to continue reading the Temeraire series so I downloaded book four in the morning and things just did not go well after that. Not the book that is but life in general! The five-year-old has some kind of stomach bug and can't keep food down. He's napping upstairs. The three-year-old is healthy (thankfully) but decided to fall asleep on me so I can't move from the couch. That means reading time!

These books! I didn't expect to enjoy them half as much as I have been. Naomi is a helluva writer, I've loved everything I've read by her so far.

3rd book into the series! Enjoyed this more than the 2nd and excited to continue the journey. Talking dragons, war, and great character development-who could resist? If u enjoy fantasy you'll love this series!

My new book light arrived!! Yay! Maybe I'll finish these both off this weekend 😍

After finishing a delightful fantasy series, I decided to tackle one of my unfinished series. The third book features the travels of the captain and his dragon from China to home. Solid story but at times it felt like it was treading narrative water. Not my favorite in the series.

When ur lighting is bad and don't have a book light then one must break out the camping head lamp. Hubby caught me passed out during my reading sesh last night 😂😛