Temeraire Read-Along

Today, the blog is joining in with Effing Rainbow’s Temeraire Read-Along. Temeraire is part of the His Majesty’s Dragon series, which centers around one important (and super cool) question: What would The Napoleonic Wars have been like if the countries involved fought them with dragons?

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I’ve been meaning to read this for ages, and I’m really looking forward to getting stuck in. I’ll be tweeting about the readalong, as will our host, using hashtag #Temeraire and reading along on the following schedule:

  • Week 1: Sunday 15th May – chapters 1 to 3
  • Week 2: Sunday 22nd May – chapters 4 to 6
  • Week 3: Sunday 29th May – chapters 7 to 9
  • Week 4: Sunday 5th June – chapters 10 to Epilogue

The Twitter readalong starts right now! Come join us!

And if I haven’t tempted you enough already, here’s the back cover blurb…

Captain Will Laurence has been at sea since he was just twelve years old; finding a warmer berth in Nelson’s navy than any he enjoyed as the youngest, least important son of Lord Allendale. Rising on merit to captain his own vessel, Laurence has earned himself a beautiful fiancee, society’s esteem and a golden future. But the war is not going well. It seems Britain can only wait as Napoleon plans to overrun her shores.

After a skirmish with a French ship, Laurence finds himself in charge of a rare cargo: a dragon egg bound for the Emperor himself. Dragons are much prized: properly trained, they can mount a fearsome attack from the skies.

One of Laurence’s men must take the beast in hand and join the aviators’ cause, thus relinquishing all hope of a normal life. But when the newly-hatched dragon ignores the young midshipman Laurence chose as its keeper and decides to imprint itself on the horrified captain instead, Laurence’s world falls apart. Gone is his golden future: gone his social standing, and soon his beautiful fiancee, as he is consigned to be the constant companion and trainer of the fighting dragon Temeraire.

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