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Dogberry · **12-31-2014, 09:21 AM**

Do you like history? Do you like the idea of history but feel it doesn't have enough BADASS DRAGONS?!

Then friends, let me introduce you to the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik!

OK so picture the Napoleonic Wars. Lots of ships sitting in a line, firing cannons at each other. BORING.

Now picture the Napoleonic Wars, with all the ships of the line and stuff AND A BUNCH OF FIRE BREATHING, ACID SPITTING, VISCIOUS DRAGONS.

Now I know what you're thinking. Dragons are cool, but they don't make for compelling drama. HOLD UP ONE MINUTE! THESE DRAGONS ARE DRAMATIC AS HELL!

Each dragon is a sentient, intelligent being, and is handled by a crew of riders. The dragons will bond with one person AND ONE PERSON ONLY. Dragons outlive humans by a substantial margin. Awww. Now this isn't a matter of humans controlling some beast. The dragon picks who it wants. That person now belongs to that dragon. It will of course listen to its human. Oh it loves its precious little human like we would love a hamster, and if that hamster could talk we'd probably do what it says, too.

There's a whole WORLD of dragons up in these books, being all cute and dragony but also brave and adventurous and sometimes downright scary, and they're running through your history class, knocking books off your teacher's desk and writing obscene things on the chalk board because these dragons are CRAZY!

Temeraire series! Naomi Novik! His Majesty's Dragon!

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