Thread: Finally the next book in the Temeraire series is out
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Old 07-20-2010, 06:47 AM   #12
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I will also buy the next book and reread some of the previous titles first. My biggest mistake for the 6th book was perhaps to not have the others fresh in memory. I would have appreciated a short summary from book 5 as an introduction in book 6.
I completely agree. I couldn't quite remember who everyone was.

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It doesn't help when the book starts off in Australia. What happened with the journey over to Australia. Surely that journey could have been more elaborated upon than just finding them there. Big disappointment. As far as I recollect from the end of book 5 they were just on their way to start the sea voyage.
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I don't know. I think it was okay - I just assumed nothing special had happened, and since we've already had several descriptions of sea voyages, it might have been boring.
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