His Majesty's Dragon

from xicanti

In her entertaining debut novel, Naomi Novik envisions an alternate version of the Napoleonic Era in which dragons are a part of the army. She does a brilliant job of blending history and fantasy into something that seems plausible and feels real. And man, is it ever a fun read! Much of the book ...

from PghDragonMan

For many fantasy readers, Anne McCaffery and her Pern books are the yardstick against which all books draconic are measured. Naomi Novik has given us a meterstick with His Majesty's Dragon and a series of stories with a broader appeal. Unlike Anne McCaffery's Pernese dragons, the ones in this ser...

from rosalita

I'm not sure why I've never picked up on this series before. I am enormously fond of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, and I have enjoyed Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of naval life during the Napoleonic wars. It wouldn't be the most inaccurate description to say that Novik ...

from lauranav

I enjoyed this book very much and look forward to the rest of the series. The characters, especially the main dragon and rider, are well written. There is great humor and we see normal day-to-day stuff as well as the big battles expected in a novel about the Napoleonic War fought with dragons. I ...

from Qshio

Yes, I loved this book, and the irony is that had it not been offered free for the Kindle, I never would have read it. Let me be more blunt, actually. Not only would I not have read it, but I would have scoffed at it. "His Majesty's Dragon"?? Come on. At best I would have read the title aloud in ...