Throne of Jade
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I loved the first Temeraire book. It wasn’t lacking its weaknesses (mainly the poorly written battle scenes) but I never had any reason to judge that it wasn’t the start of a fantastic series. How incorrect I was.
Throne of Jade is honestly the most overwritten book I have ever read in my entire life. In this rambling, bloated 375 oddessy there’s a decent 50,000 word book screaming to get out. Even if all of the flab were cut out it would have bearable with a plot or lacking it.
Sadly, even in 375 pages there’s certainly not much plot to be had. The entire tale is basically the Chinese demanding their dragon back, the British giving and sending Laurence to China with Temeraire. Over 200 pages are dedicated to them just sitting about on a boat on the way there. It’s an obscene waste of trees.
The dragon is very cute and I wish I had him for a pet. But he’s outweighed by innumerable dead weight human characters who never really seem to differentiate between each additional. It’s a chore to read this book, I kid you not. I reflect I might give up on this series despite the fact I already own book three. It’s just so damn dull and a MAJOR let-down.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I liked the series, the dragon growes up, the poor handler stays the same to the end of the book. Never makes the change from a company man. This was a time time when pirates and freebooters were ruling the carribeeen . Where are are the pirate dragons? why do our dragons accepted enslavement? the writer needs to get a boost and let her enslaved dargons free, not to mention the handlers!!! Painful to read book. Makes you reflect about the right to refuse “orders” I work at intel, watch lots of men get laid off that belived following rules would save them. Ha.
maybe the next book.. sigh
amazon playing games with prices, this is not a new relaese, is an ancient book,,,, library has a copy….
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Finshed first two books, now reading the third.
These are excellent books for kids.
Based on Napoleon’s era, but combine’s dragons and ships.
(The ships part is similar to many of the hornblower series by C s forester.)
The first book is brilliant, the second slighly drags with all the intrigue in China, but the third picks up the pace again.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Book one introduced the basic premise: Alternate-history Planet in which dragons exist and work cooperatively with soldiers for military purposes in the Napoleonic Wars.
Book two, Throne of Jade, wholly dismisses this premise. Forget England, France, Napoleon, wars. This one is all about an eight-month-long boat ride to China.
It’s as if the leader chose she was tired of Europe, no longer considered Napoleon a threat to England, and as a replacement for wanted her characters to visit somewhere completely different. China was her choice, but from the standpoint of plot logic or reader expectations she might just as reasonably have selected Antarctica, Bolivia, or Guam. Her alternate China struck me as a yawn — mostly an excuse to carry on her overarching discussion of (and dragon-centric metaphor about) slavery. I don’t fault her points, but I consider them tardy by well over a hundred yerars.
Persons who find her characterization stiff will not get an argument from me. Persons who feel she is overfond of colons and semicolons, to the point where the majority of her sentences include them, can include me as well.
Finally, people should probably be made aware that these books stem from a heritage of slash fiction, and are designed please that audience, which is obvious when you read in the afterword that she has “beta readers” and that they are lacking exception women.
If slash fiction is your thing, you’re probably going to delight in persons aspects of the tale. If it’s not, I recommend you give this entire series a wide berth. In the third book things get even more aggressive in this direction.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
As much as I loved His Majesty’s Dragon, that’s about how much i was disappointed in this outing. It was predictable in nearly every way. The gang spends an inordinate amount of time on boarda ship en-route to China, and while it’s handled very well, I could have used more action. I’m enjoying this series, but this book is a least-favorite.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5