[ SECRET POST #1670 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1670 ⌋


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Notes:

Going to be short posts this week, LJ being down half the week means less secrets total, sorry about that.

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 204 secrets from Secret Submission Post #239.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - omgiknowthem ], [ 0 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - repeats ]
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I personally highly recommend it. The premise is: what would the Napoleonic wars have been like if the different countries had dragons that they used as an air force? The characters and the story are very good. You get a bit of everything: fighting, politics, friendship, bits of romance. I'm very bad at reccing things, so I'll just leave it at "it's awesome!".

The only person I know who didn't like it was my dad. Basically, he didn't like Temeraire (who pretty much co-stars with the narrator as the main characters) since Temeraire is prone to asking uncomfortable questions and my dad doesn't like the "childish but wise" trope.

I don't really understand critics like the anon above though: It's historical fantasy so yes, dubious social mores and all that. The books do address these questions though (and centres around them more as the series goes on, it's very subtle in the first book as our narrator is a very straight-laced man who gets his eyes opened bit by bit). there actually are a few strong and interesting female characters who are central to the story, but it is set during the Napoleonic wars so don't expect women to rule the world or gay romance (or anything but strictly regulated and parent approved, pre-arranged romance) to be an accepted thing. The social issues level they're at is debating abolishing slavery so... as for the characters being mainly white. well. see above.

Arguably though, the dragons are very much part of the main cast and that's whole different species.

The historical is almost as important as the fantasy in these novels. Yes, she could have set it in an entirely fictional world with 21st century values and made the main character gay but now you're complaining that the author didn't write a completely different story with a completely different set of characters...