Heh. Told you so!
I'm glad you liked it, Marilyn. I'm eagerly awaiting the sixth book in the series, to be released next month. Temeraire is one of the best characters I've run across in a long time. I'm not really into slash, but Temeraire and Laurence are my interspecies OTP.
(A platonic OTP, of course! But they really do love each other.)