04-27-2009, 11:45 AM | #1 |
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Temeraire novels?
I just finished "His Majesty's Dragon" by Naomi Novik. It was a fair to good yarn, but I felt that the characterizations were a bit flat. The dragons didn't seem to be much more that humans that could fly and carry great loads. Not a lot of diferentiation from their handlers. Does this sort of character development carry through the rest of the series, or does it get richer with time?
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04-27-2009, 01:47 PM | #2 |
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I've read them all and it doesn't get any better in terms of characterization or plot. They are a good read, not a great read.
A couple of very good to excellent series are "The Chronicles of Grimm Dragonblaster" by Alastair Archibald (Fictionwise has the first 5 of the 7 books) and "The Godspeaker Trilogy" by Karen Miller (available at Fictionwise and Sony). |
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