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Empire of Ivory
by Naomi Novik
These books are ok. I think I've tired of the formal language in them. I mean, I understand why the author is writing this way...it's set during the Napoleonic wars. I just don't really care to read it. It wears on me. As for the story itself; the main character & his dragon have returned from Japan to find that all the dragons in England are sick & dying, so they return to Africa to find a cure. While they're there, they get captured, ignite the fires of vengeance in the black populace who has had enough being captured for slave trade, then eventually bring back a cure for the dragon-pox or wyrm-flu...whatever...leading up to the cliffhanger at the end. blah blah blah Very little fighting with Napoleon, which has always been the most interesting aspect of these books for me. I *would* like to find out how this series ends, but this is book 4 & there are currently 8. They aren't terrible books, but I do read them with a certain 'oh, come on...can we just wrap this up?' attitude. My current vote for friends: skip this series.