![]() ![]() So does this final episode satisfactorily wrap up the story, tying up all the loose ends and give us a suitable conclusion to the adventures Temeraire and Laurence have endured? Oh yes. Now, it is do or die, as our heroes not only need to save Temeraire’s offspring but also to stop Napoleon for good! Worse, they soon learn that the French have stolen Termeraire and Iskierka’s egg. Lawrence and the dragon Temeraire pursue the fleeing French army back west, but are demoralized when Napoleon makes it back to Paris unscathed. Napoleon has been denied his victory…but at a terrible price. The deadly campaign in Russia has cost both Napoleon and those allied against him. The first four books predate my blog, so my reviews start with Victory of Eagles, the fifth book in the series. I’m not good at following long-running series, but I fell in love with Temeraire and have made a point of reading every book. The series starts with Temeraire when a very special egg Captain Laurence is transporting on his ship suddenly starts to hatch… And as the hatchling immediately bonds with Laurence, his naval career is abruptly over and he finds himself seconded to the less prestigious Dragon Corps. And in their gritted struggle, the English and French are using dragons to wage war on each other. League of Dragons is the final book in this remarkable series, set in Napoleonic times, where dragons are roaming the world in significant numbers, both in feral groups or domesticated. ![]()
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