the Chinese celestial dragon Lien. Only once the safety of his egg is assured will Temeraire turn his keen intelligence and unique perception to the problem of Napoleon’s regrouping forces ...

Naomi Novik winds up her nine-book series about Temeraire the dragon and the Napoleonic Wars with “League of Dragons” (Del Rey, $28, 384 pages), and faithful readers will want to complete the ...

Before we even begin to talk about Naomi Novik's beloved alt-history/fantasy Temeraire series — which concludes this month with League of Dragons — we have to look at the numbers. The first ...

Will Laurence of the British Navy is therefore taken aback after his crew captures an egg from a French ship and it hatches a Chinese dragon, which Laurence names Temeraire. When Temeraire bonds ...

In it, we witness some of the last battles of the Napoleonic Wars — from the backs of dragons who aren’t just weapons anymore. They’re generals. Spoilers for previous books in the Temeraire ...

Dragons!" And one dragon in particular: Temeraire. He's central in her 9-book "Temeraire" series, which opens with the dragon becoming the responsibility of Will Laurence, a naval captain fighting ...

Behold the book trailer for Crucible of Gold, the latest novel in Naomi Novik’s addictive Temeraire series about how dragon-enhanced aerial forces would have changed the course of the Napoleonic ...

As I mentioned a few years ago, I love Naomi Novik's Temeraire books. Horatio Hornblower with dragons about summarizes the general theme (the lead character is quite Hornblower-like), but of ...

a dragon he names Temeraire. It’s not the kind of bond that can be easily broken, so Laurence is forced to abandon his original navy career, losing his station in society as a gentleman ...