His Majesty's Dragon
The Napoleonic Wars, fought with an air force of dragons. A naval captain is bonded to a hatchling against his every intention and discovers that the dragon is better company than the navy was. The friendship is the love story. On the House's scale it rates 0 for spice (closed to the world), 1 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. Readers who want the best dragon characterisation in the genre and no romance.
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How it rates
- Author
- Naomi Novik
- Series
- Temeraire, book 1 of 9 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 0 out of 5, Closed to the world0/5 · Closed to the world
- Romance
- 1/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 2/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Britain and the Channel during the Napoleonic Wars
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 356
On the spice rating No romantic or sexual content. The central relationship is between a man and his dragon. How the scale works.
Content warnings war, animal endangerment, violence.
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