Black Powder War by Naomi NovikMy review
rating: 3 of 5 starsMore hot dragon action in the Napoleonic era, and very much a book of two halves. The first section involves a lengthy overland journey from China where Captain Laurence and his dragon Temeraire finished up at the end of the previous volume before getting involved in a convoluted conspiracy in Istanbul where they had been ordered to collect some dragon eggs.
This plotline sort of fizzles out and doesn't really get explained, but the end of the book really picks up the action with the logical and intriguing addition of dragons as infantry support to the battle of Jena with the Grand Armee of Napoleon pursuing the shattered Prussian forces to a denouement at the siege of Danzig. Along the way Temeraire and Laurence realise that they have a deadly and unexpected enemy to face ...
Good stuff, but marking time in the series I think.
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