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Empire of Ivory
by Naomi Novik
When I originally set up my GoodReads account and it asks you to add books you've already read, just to get started, etc.... I marked this one as read. However, now having actually read it, I'm quite certain I hadn't read it yet. Yes, folks, I only made it through 3 Temeraire books before. And I think twice! I have now advanced past book 4! Go me!
Okay, so this one I believe is the first one where she starts writing out the different languages, instead of just saying they're speaking in another language. Contrarily, this book ALSO had a lot of skipping over dialogue. You know the thing, like 'he summarized the circumstances', etc. A bit of that is okay. There are times when it's perfectly appropriate, because to go on at length would be boring to the reader. However, it happened a LOT in this book. And sometimes it just read as being too lazy to work out exact sentences. Not that I should call an author who has written like 8+ books lazy. Just that it felt like it when I was frustrated by wanting to know EXACTLY what he said.
Anyway, I'm already halfway through book 5, so allons-y! (Look, actually typed out French. See what I did there?)
Okay, so this one I believe is the first one where she starts writing out the different languages, instead of just saying they're speaking in another language. Contrarily, this book ALSO had a lot of skipping over dialogue. You know the thing, like 'he summarized the circumstances', etc. A bit of that is okay. There are times when it's perfectly appropriate, because to go on at length would be boring to the reader. However, it happened a LOT in this book. And sometimes it just read as being too lazy to work out exact sentences. Not that I should call an author who has written like 8+ books lazy. Just that it felt like it when I was frustrated by wanting to know EXACTLY what he said.
Anyway, I'm already halfway through book 5, so allons-y! (Look, actually typed out French. See what I did there?)