A review by moira_m
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

4.0

Most certainly a second novel and I would say not cApable of standing on its own. Regardless, it is a beautiful extension of the story of Temeraire, his captain, and their friends and companions. Quite often characters reflect on their own folly without suffering true doubt or misery for the pain their ignorance inflicted; it is not often that I find a book in which a main character suffers after recognizing his own folly and the failures of a system in which he had previously believed. For that alone I would enjoy this book; not that I revel in the misery of other but that I so enjoyed the development of character using both definitions of the word.