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Naomi Novik's beloved Temeraire series, a brilliant combination of fantasy and history that reimagines the Napoleonic wars as fought with the aid of intelligent dragons, is a 21st-century classic. From the first volume, His Majesty's Dragon, listeners have been entranced by the globe-spanning adventures of the resolute Capt. William Laurence and his brave but impulsive dragon, Temeraire. Now, in Blood of Tyrants, the penultimate volume of the series, Novik is at the very height of her powers as she brings her story to its widest, most colorful canvas yet.
Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East. Age-old enmities and suspicions have turned the entire region into a powder keg ready to erupt at the slightest spark - a spark that Laurence and Temeraire may unwittingly provide, leaving Britain faced with new enemies just when they most desperately need allies instead.
For to the west, another, wider conflagration looms. Napoleon has turned on his former ally, the emperor Alexander of Russia, and is even now leading the largest army the world has ever seen to add that country to his list of conquests. It is there, outside the gates of Moscow, that a reunited Laurence and Temeraire - along with some unexpected allies and old friends - will face their ultimate challenge...and learn whether or not there are stronger ties than memory.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 13 hours and 47 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Tantor Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: August 19, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DR0ACOY
The Temeraire series should be absolutely ridiculous - the Napoleonic Wars, fought with dragons! But thanks to Ms. Novik's sense of history, of character, and of realism (yes, realism in novels about dragons), her series is one of the most enjoyable entries into epic fantasy one is likely to find. Indeed, if it weren't for George R. R. Martin eating up all the oxygen with "A Song of Ice and Fire" and Peter Jackson's Tolkien films, I suspect that Temeraire would be a defining pop culture juggernaut. (There's still hope - Jackson allegedly has the movie rights to this series as well - fingers crossed!)
Novik has announced that "Blood of Tyrants" will be the penultimate novel in the series, and she has not wasted the opportunity. In opening chapters that are strongly reminiscent of James Clavell's "Shogun," Laurence washes ashore by himself in Japan, shipwrecked . . . and suffering from amnesia. Indeed, he's forgotten everything about his relationship with Temeraire and adventures as an aviator - he still imagines that he's a captain in the navy. Temeraire and the crew are marooned on a reef just offshore, and Temeraire is beside himself to find Laurence, as one can imagine.
The plot is just too dense to summarize without giving the game away, but suffice it to say that the action sweeps from Japan to China to Moscow, where Laurence and Temeraire go head to head with Napoleon and Murat in a conflict that can safely be described as one of the most pivotal in modern history. Through it all, Novik keeps her bearings by focusing on her characters and having them react completely appropriately to the bizarre and precarious positions they keep finding themselves in.
The short version of this saga is that it's an alternate history fantasy version of the Napoleonic Wars, with dragons added to the mix. But it's also a look at the mores and morals of the times through the eyes of characters forced to look beyond mundane conventions.
It has been a long ride. A chance encounter with a French warship off the coast of South America led to Royal Navy Captain Will Laurence bonding with the Chinese dragon Temeraire, embarking on an epic journey that would test both of them to their limits time and time again. In Blood of Tyrants, Novik once more has the pair traveling halfway around the world, now on a desperate mission to seek aid against Napoleon Bonaparte for England.
But the saga is more than just their struggle against the would-be conqueror of the world. Along the way Laurence and Temeraire have had to battle injustice and established stupidity from both their own side and would be allies, to the point of committing treason against England to prevent a greater wrong. The cost to Laurence in his honor, his peace of mind, his prospects for the future has been immense; Temeraire has hardly fared much better. In Blood of Tyrants they will have to come to terms with it all over again thanks to a freak mischance while being shipwrecked in Japan on their way to China to seek aid.
As an adopted son of the Emperor of China, Laurence has hopes of bringing Chinese dragons to war against Napoleon, yet nothing is ever simple. As so often has been the case before, Laurence finds himself caught in political tangles, assassination attempts, and bad behavior by the British Empire.
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