![]() I do think Novik might've gone a little over the top with Temeraire. ![]() And Captain Laurence, like a few of Lackey's protags, is already a grown ass adult with a career when this happens, and suddenly finds himself starting over. To be chosen by a dragon is not entirely unlike being Chosen by a Companion – for many of Lackey's protagonists, it means a complete departure from whatever society one has known before and entry into a new and insular society and learning a lot of new things, fast. This story reminds me in some ways of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books. But then, right as I was busy wishing this. Which is what I always want in every book. I get that Novik wanted to focus her story on just one significant change for this alternate history – what would the Napoleonic wars have looked like if there had been a dragon air force? But it didn't stop me from wanting my heroes to be heroines. I just wanted, if we're going to have an alternate history featuring a cool thing like dragons, for it to also feature another cool thing like women who do things other than become men's wives and mothers of their children. ![]() That's not to say I wanted yet another story where a spunky woman has to forge a hard path in a man's world – the path that Captain Laurence has to forge is hard enough without adding 19th-century gender politics to it. ![]() But I couldn't stop wishing both human and dragon protagonists were women. I really liked this book and was totally immersed from the moment Temeraire was hatched. ![]()
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