I held onto this book longer than I really should have – I thought I was missing the book between the last one in this series I had read, and what I still had on hand, but I was wrong. So I could have read this at least a year ago. Oops.
Temeraire and Laurence have been transported to Australia due to the events of the last book (the small matter of them not wanting all of the French dragons to die horribly of a dragon plague.) Temeraire it too value for the full sentence of Laurence’s treason to be carried out, so that’s why they’re in Australia, which is fully as rough as it was in our real history of this time period.
They’ve been given a few eggs to start a new covert in Australia. They’re inferior eggs of course, due to their disgrace, which means that the officers on hand to potentially captain those dragons aren’t the best. When the most promising of the eggs is kidnapped, Laurence and crew are off across the whole of Australia to find it.
What they find instead is the set up of what will likely be the end of this series (though there are still several book left), and I’m definitively interested to see where that’s going – they’re all in for quite the potential show down among world powers. I can’t wait to see what happens next. (But have to track down that book first- my library doesn’t have it. Boo!)
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