pickThis was a reread but I enjoyed it as much as I did previously.
I'm going to a book signing for this author in a couple of weeks so I started flipping through this book and got sucked right into the story again. Temeraire is one of my favorite characters! 🐲
bailedIt‘s been 3 years so my memory of book one is a bit fuzzy but I didn‘t feel like rereading to continue so I just jumped right into book 2.
At about 50 pages in I realized that I really don‘t care about the characters and couldn‘t care less about what happens to them.
So here‘s to another DNF and another series off the shelves.
I missed #BookSpin Day yesterday because of work and other things but I'm super excited about the draw this month. BookSpin is the tagged and the Double is Nightwatch. Thankfully the draw was on the upper range because all my chonky boi books are towards the low teens/twenty.
Many might not know his name, but may have heard his voice! Simon Vance has narrated many an #audiobook from the Temeraire series to the Aubrey/Maturin series to the Dune series! His voice is grand in style, comfortable in both male and female voices and dialects. When I listen to his stories I‘m transported inside the narrative thanks to his voice.
His in-house recording studio burned along with his house in the Eaton, California fires. ⬇️
HAPPY #BOOKSPIN DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!
It is my favorite day of the month and I am excited at what the draw has picked for me. It's nice that this month there's fantasy and scifi rather than just one or the other. My selections are the tagged and Red Mars. We'll see how far I get with my backlog this month as well.
pickAm I the only one reading this series who finds Laurence to be an insufferable twat? He literally refused to perform genocide at the end of the last book, and spends this entire book moping about it/sighing that he deserves to be killed for treason. To me, if you believe that what you did was right, then just blindly accepting the punishment for it makes no sense. Still an enjoyable read, but I'm here for Temeraire, not Eeyore-Laurence 😂
pickStarting this series again as I stopped 2 books in the last time. Enjoyed this as much as I did the last time.
pickThis was the first book I got for kindle, back in 2009. It was free & languished on my TBR list until the Napoleonic prompt from #bookedintime. FINALLY read this. The Napoleonic Wars with dragons. Great world building and I‘m totally invested in finding out what‘s next for Temeraire. I‘m on a roll reading books with great dragon characters. Next up is Yarros‘s Iron Flame.
I hope #serieslove2023 goes to 2024. I keep adding new series! 🤦♀️
pickI‘d already read the first book, but borrowed this three-book volume for efficiency and the extra short story. Frankly, it‘s that story that saves this from being a so-so. The second and third Temeraire novels are very unevenly paced, swinging wildly from exciting, deadly peril to waiting boredom… realistic, I suppose, but not that satisfying to read! A lot of threads were just dropped. After the short story, I‘m rooting for Lien and Napoleon.
