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Empire of Ivory
by Naomi Novik
with every book I love these characters more and more. Laurence! My actual real life husband! I always want to love the rascally anti-hero gray morals type of character, but honestly I'm just a big sucker for the Laurences of the world, the heroes who are unfailingly noble and just and brave. Because that's who I want to be! I want to be good and able to make the tough-but-right decisions in life, you know?
Anyways, this was a really fun one, mostly because there was less war stuff and more adventure stuff. Seriously I do not give a crap about Napoleon and Britain v France, though I understand the parts I DO care about can only happen because of the war as a catalyst.
Naomi Novik really just goes around killing so many minor characters (and SUPER minor, like unnamed minor) and I hate it because hello? you literally just get ONE life (as far as I know) and it makes me sad that these people are just dying for a cause without a second of grieving spent on them. I don't know how to explain it very well and call me a bleeding heart or whatever, but it weighs on me even though I know these are not real people! But it reminds me of real life!
Temeraire was lovely as always and he is a close 2nd behind only Shardas (from [b:Dragon Slippers|2887647|Dragon Slippers (Dragon Slippers, #1)|Jessica Day George|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1404937105l/2887647._SY75_.jpg|655608]) for Shayla's Favorite Dragon. I didn't mind that my love Granby wasn't around so much because I got to know Ferris who is my new love. What can I say? I love the brave type.
My only complaint for this book is that the slavery stuff was sketch and I am high-key side-eying Naomi. That one scene where Laurence frees the 200 slaves reminded me too much of that scene in Hidden Figures (you know the one, if you've seen the movie) that was only in there so that the white people in the audience could feel less guilty and less uncomfortable. And of course as usual with these books I would die for some black female representation (Mrs. Erasmus was your usual Strong Black Woman type, no further personality. then again, I suppose no one in the series is given much of a personality besides Temeraire. But I digress.) but whatever, gotta pick your battles. At least the women we ARE given are very cool. Kinda wish this were High Fantasy and not so set in reality so that women were more present actually.
Super excited to continue and see where this goes after that great ending!
Anyways, this was a really fun one, mostly because there was less war stuff and more adventure stuff. Seriously I do not give a crap about Napoleon and Britain v France, though I understand the parts I DO care about can only happen because of the war as a catalyst.
Naomi Novik really just goes around killing so many minor characters (and SUPER minor, like unnamed minor) and I hate it because hello? you literally just get ONE life (as far as I know) and it makes me sad that these people are just dying for a cause without a second of grieving spent on them. I don't know how to explain it very well and call me a bleeding heart or whatever, but it weighs on me even though I know these are not real people! But it reminds me of real life!
Temeraire was lovely as always and he is a close 2nd behind only Shardas (from [b:Dragon Slippers|2887647|Dragon Slippers (Dragon Slippers, #1)|Jessica Day George|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1404937105l/2887647._SY75_.jpg|655608]) for Shayla's Favorite Dragon. I didn't mind that my love Granby wasn't around so much because I got to know Ferris who is my new love. What can I say? I love the brave type.
My only complaint for this book is that the slavery stuff was sketch and I am high-key side-eying Naomi. That one scene where
Super excited to continue and see where this goes after that great ending!