Note: I know the author socially.
This book is just a fucking banger start to finish. It's an incredible concept--what if Napoleonic naval warfare but the ships are giant dragons--executed flawlessly, with a central duo of Laurence and Temeraire that is as good as any book relationship ever written. Their bond is immediate and so incredibly important, and Laurence is such a good man and so exactly of his world, which just expands beyond him at such a rapid rate you would understand how someone might handle it much less well than he does. Which isn't to say he's without flaws; his mistakes are often devastating, but they are never unearned or unexplored, and the conflict within this first novel of the series is exceptional. I decided I wanted to finally read this entire series this fall, and while I could have skipped this one since it's the one of these series I've read many times, I didn't want to deprive myself of the pleasure of reading it once more.
Grade: A
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