![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. Fantasy-fairy tale isn’t necessarily my wheelhouse, but I like your writing well enough to be interested in a stand-alone book (somehow it seems easier to read that than to get back into the Temeraire books after all these years). Especially now, checking on your website and seeing that the series has a planned finale, the tenth book to be published at some point in the nearish future.īut meanwhile, I came across Uprooted available for review, and was instantly intrigued. Actually, I don’t think I’ve really *made* that decision, since in my mind I’ll get back to them one day. I know there are readers who were disappointed with some of the middle books I can’t say whether that influenced my decision not to continue with the series. I read the first…four? five? books in the series and then just sort of fell behind and fell out of them. Back in the day, I was a devoted reader of your Temeraire series, an alternate history fantasy series set in early 19th century England, about Captain William Laurence and his “brave but impulsive dragon,” Temeraire. ![]()
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