My most recent listens were Orson Scott Card's
Enchanted and the first
Temeraire book by Naomi Novik.
As with much of Card's work,
Enchanted was compelling but ideologically problematic.
Temeraire was great fun (and I started the second book last night). The main human character is maybe a little too gallant and proper, and at the same time it sometimes seems the author is jumping through hoops to create conditions where such a man could accept modern values (gender roles, for instance) out of step with his time. I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a flaw, so much as a quirk. One can hardly complain of revisionism in a book that inserts dragons into the Napoleonic Wars
