book: Blood of Tyrants
Sep. 6th, 2013 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraBlood of Tyrants is book 8 of 9 in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, possibly the best so far. I remember being somewhat lukewarm about these somewhere around book 3-5 but by now I am sold sold SOLD. Gah, what can I say that isn't completely spoilery. There is some lovely slow build over the arc of the series and as we approach the end we're getting some excellent emotional payoff. Also lots of action. I would recommend them to people who liked the Vorkosigan books.
Also am I a bad person for wanting to sit L.A. Meyer of the "Bloody Jack" books down with this series and say, SEE, this is how you do a globe-trotting Napoleonic war long series, you give it an actual plot arc, you let people's actions have weight and consequences, don't just send your characters bopping around as tourists. I guess Novik is writing AU and Meyer is trying to stick to actual history, which he does not want to make his fictional characters the movers and shakers of, but, it really seems like the problem is more that Novik has been writing with an end in mind and Meyer is just spinning us along.
Also am I a bad person for wanting to sit L.A. Meyer of the "Bloody Jack" books down with this series and say, SEE, this is how you do a globe-trotting Napoleonic war long series, you give it an actual plot arc, you let people's actions have weight and consequences, don't just send your characters bopping around as tourists. I guess Novik is writing AU and Meyer is trying to stick to actual history, which he does not want to make his fictional characters the movers and shakers of, but, it really seems like the problem is more that Novik has been writing with an end in mind and Meyer is just spinning us along.
