Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 1 April 2010
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Temeraire 2 - The Throne of Jade
This is the second volume of the Temeraire series.
If you haven’t read the first, you may say yet another “cute dragon” book
However, the combination of military history, sympathetic characters, and engaging style makes this series great, intelligent fun. Stephen King describes it as a cross between Susanna Clarke and Patrick O'Brian, and he's spot on—after charting the Napoleonic Wars, with a difference- dragons as Air Corps, an epic journey to Imperial China follows...
In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes killing more than Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood...
