For Novik, the main scope of the Temeraire series is to explore the political and cultural implications of a world populated by intelligent dragons - and this exploration provides a fascinating backdrop to the adventures of Laurence and Temeraire.
While I’d hoped for a similar military history angle, Temeraire goes in quite a different direction. These novels follow soldier Richard Sharpe through the various battles of the Napoleonic Wars and see him rise among the ranks of the British Army. The Sharpe books were favourites of mine when I was younger. I’ll admit that when I picked up Temeraire, I was expecting (and half-hoping) for something similar to Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series. Non-Standard, Archaic Style of Punctuation.
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