I just adored Tooth & Claw, and I read it at the perfect time: I'd been reading lots of Trollope, and I found T&C right after finishing Framley Parsonage. Jo puts the perfect dragonish spin on all the Victorian tropes.
Temeraire, though--I picked them up with great hopes as I'd loved her other writing, and was slightly disappointed, in part because I judge anything set in the Napoleonic milieu against Patrick O'Brian (which is a really high bar) and partly because I kept falling out of the story and wondering about the physics of her dragons, and that's fatal.
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Date: 2006-09-15 04:55 am (UTC)Temeraire, though--I picked them up with great hopes as I'd loved her other writing, and was slightly disappointed, in part because I judge anything set in the Napoleonic milieu against Patrick O'Brian (which is a really high bar) and partly because I kept falling out of the story and wondering about the physics of her dragons, and that's fatal.
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