{"id":1667,"date":"2006-09-25T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/09\/temeraire\/"},"modified":"2006-09-25T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T15:54:02","slug":"temeraire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/temeraire\/","title":{"rendered":"Temeraire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0007219113&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nTemeraire is set during the Napoleaonic wars. Nelson is battling against the French and he&#8217;s got Villeneuve and his fleet on the run. The Battle of Trafalgar has not yet been fought. Against this background we meet Captain Laurence who&#8217;s ship has just captured a French &#8220;prize&#8221;. On board is a large egg which he also takes ownership of. All very Patrick O&#8217;Brien so far. Well I say that &#8211; the closest I&#8217;ve got to Patrick O&#8217;Brien is seeing him dominating the &#8216;O&#8217; section of a bookshop and having seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000551.html\">Master and Commander<\/a> at the cinema.<br \/>\nThere is one small difference in this book. There are dragons.<br \/>\nDragons are used by both sides as an aerial force. And the prize that Laurence captures is a particularly rare dragon&#8217;s egg. He takes on the dragon, and so we get a swashbuckling epic tale of ships, soldiers and dragons. Oh, and as everyone knows, dragons talk.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t really read a fantasy book for months &#8211; possibly years. Indeed, I suspect it would have been a re-reading of Lord of the Rings around the time of the first of the trilogy. And that&#8217;s a worthwhile point to make, because my interest in this book was piqued when I learnt that Peter Jackson has bought the film rights to this book (and possibly the series).<br \/>\nI did thoroughly immerse myself in the novel, and enjoyed the page turning appeal that it had. But I did think that it was just a little too set-up for future installments. I was perhaps expecting a bigger climax to the novel. But that&#8217;s all to the good, since come January, I will be getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Temeraire-Throne-Jade-Naomi-Novik\/dp\/0007219148\">second book<\/a> in the series (already available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Temeraire-Throne-Jade-Naomi-Novik\/dp\/0007219121\">hardback<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temeraire is set during the Napoleaonic wars. Nelson is battling against the French and he&#8217;s got Villeneuve and his fleet on the run. The Battle of Trafalgar has not yet been fought. Against this background we meet Captain Laurence who&#8217;s ship has just captured a French &#8220;prize&#8221;. On board is a large egg which he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}