#32 Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

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I'm so behind blogging my reading. I'm hoping to get caught up soonish.

This is the 5th book in the series. Laurence and Tremeraire returned to England to face the music of their actions at the end of book 4. I really don't want to get into what happens since it ruins what happens to them in the beginning of the book. I enjoyed it and I will be wanting to read the next one. The series is definitely for people that like Napoleonic time frame fiction.

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Re: Victory of Eagles SPOILER SPOILER

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Oh I read it, I got a proof of it from anther bookseller. I have the feeling that with the breeding grounds I doubt they have much more than the few groundskeepers and herdsmen. The dragons know where to go and they are sent to different places to breed. So I'm sure a master blood book is kept elsewhere and only a few people work on the actual decisions of what crosses will work.

Having Temeraire as a POV in the book is great. It shows the reader that he is intelligent more than just having him read books and send letters would. And that he is also thinking about both his future and the future of other dragons in England is cool as well.

Re: Victory of Eagles SPOILER SPOILER

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Yes, I think you are right about the breeding grounds and records. There may be an inn in the local village where the visiting dragon's captain hangs out during the visit. (In Temeraire's previous experience, when he was thought to be infected, there seemed to be a custom of spending as much as a week attempting to fertilize an egg.) But what happended to the other dragons? I mean, going from a few hundred to sixty is quite a drop.

Thanks for the response.