Naomi Novik

A latest work by the award-winning author of Victory of Eagles continues the adventurous partnership between a British naval captain and a fighting dragon who work to protect their island home from the forces of Napoleon.

Tongues of Serpents

Laura Kehoe

Actual rating is 31/2 stars. I'll be writing a more thorough review soon.

Sheila

I can't help but feel that this is easily the weakest Temeraire book yet, & glancing at the other reviews it seems I'm not alone in thinking so. While short, the entire book is one long plodding set-up for the remaining books; though if Novik intended to write it this way to better illustrate Laurence & Temeraire's numbing tedium of their exile in Australia, she succeeded.

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony

Rebecca Lysaght

Savannah Lowe

Rachelle Neu

Stefan Ladstätter-Thaa

Convicted of treason and transported to the prison colony at New South Wales, Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, Temeraire, encounter complications after the colony's governor, Captain William Bligh, is overthrown.

Nora 

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Arek Mycek

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the sixth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire are exiled to Australia in the everexpanding war between Napoleon and Britain. "Temeraire and his fellow dragons are surely Novik's finest accomplishment."--BookPage Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire and Captain Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia--and into a hornet's nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh--aka Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. And when Bligh tries to enlist them in his bid to regain office, the dragon and his captain are caught in the middle of a political power struggle. Their only chance to escape the fray is accepting a mission to blaze a route through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But the theft of a precious dragon egg turns their expedition into a desperate recovery operation--leading to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new complication in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.

Book Six of Temeraire

Briar Rose

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh—aka Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. And when Bligh tries to enlist them in his bid to regain office, the dragon and his captain are caught in the middle of a political power struggle. Their only chance to escape the fray is accepting a mission to blaze a route through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But the theft of a precious dragon egg turns their expedition into a desperate recovery operation—leading to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new complication in the global war between Britain and Napoleon. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Naomi Novik's Crucible of Gold.

Tongues of Serpents

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