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title: "Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3) Paperback – May 30, 2006"
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# Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3) Paperback – May 30, 2006

**Brand:** naomi novik
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    another lovely dragon 🐉
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2023*

Temeraire journeys overland back from China as napoleon threatens all of Europe. He also explores what it would mean to bring dragon’s rights to England. Quite enjoyable again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    a tour da force of what the Napoleonic Wars would be like with dragons.
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 5, 2019*

The Black Powder War, Naomi Novik’s third book in His Majesty’s Dragon series, begins where Throne of Jade left off.Laurence, Temeraire and the crew are still in China when they receive a new urgent assignment to go to Istanbul to get three dragon eggs and take them to England. Since the war with Napoleon continues, they will have to avoid Napolean as they cross Europe with the eggs.As expected, almost nothing goes as planned. Political intrigue and deception abound. And that’s just the beginning of the book.Novik’s characters are fascinating and well developed. I love both humans and dragons. This story introduces new characters who bring more conflict, humor, and diversity to the story.Tharkay is a mixed-race man without a clear identity in either British or Chinese cultures. He agrees to guide them through the desert. He dislikes Europeans, is secretive, and a man of few words. In this story, I’m never sure if he can be trusted, or if he’s going to betray them at any moment. However, I like him.A pack of feral dragons and their leader Arkady play a crucial role in this book. Up until this point, feral dragons are stereotyped as inferior and unable to speak. This book dispelled these misconceptions.Iskierka, another new character, is introduced later in the story. This dragon has an in-your-face personality. Plus, she annoys Temeraire, which is often funny. We can expect to see her in the other books.After three books, I love these characters, and I’m willing to stay with them through thick and thin.The Napoleonic Wars lace these books together. As part of the air corps, Laurence and Temeraire receive orders that throw them into the heart of the conflict.As she did in the other two books, Novik creates distinct and vivid settings. In each place, I experienced a clear sense of place and time. So far, each book has a new setting.Events, twists, and turns of the story take me to another time and place. Although this is a fantasy world with dragons, a sense of reality runs through each book.If you like history, she gives a tour da force of what the Napoleonic Wars would be like with dragons. In the background of each story, war and the politics of the day affect our heroes. In the foreground, how Laurence and Temeraire respond to these events plays out in unexpected ways. More importantly, the conflicts and interpersonal relationships among the characters strengthen the plot.In the last book, Temeraire saw how well China treated their dragons, and now he wants to return to England to help the dragons have more freedoms and a better life.While Laurence is sympathetic to Temeraire’s desire to reform, he tries to caution Temeraire that things don’t change quickly. He doesn’t succeed because Temeraire is young enough to be overly optimistic and naive about how politics works.I love that Laurence begins as a very proper English gentleman and changes significantly in each book. The liberality of the air corps, its acceptance of women, and its casual disregard for English customs shocks him and slowly transforms him.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The High Road from China
  

*by F***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2008*

After making a better success of their previous adventure 
  
Throne of Jade







  
  
     than they had any right to expect and having survived a mysterious shipboard fire that has crippled their transport (saved from total destruction only by Temeraire's clever invention of the dragon bucket brigade), he and Laurence are surprised by mysterious and urgent orders to proceed to Istanbul (arguably a mistake because the British should still be calling it Constantinople at this time) "without the loss of a Moment" to pick up 3 dragon eggs, purchased from the Ottoman Empire and return them to England.With months of repairs required to restore HMS Allegiance to action and an even longer potential sea voyage from having to sail all the way around India and Africa, Laurence decides to go overland, mostly along the old Silk Road.  With a chip-on-the-shoulder guide of questionable trustworthiness and a tagalong band of feral dragons enticed by Temeraire's tales of food aplenty, Laurence, Temeraire, and crew fight starvation, thirst, avalanche, and other assorted foes on the high road to Istanbul, hurried on by the disturbing news that their mortal enemy from the previous adventure, the albino Celestial Lien, is preceding them on their way.Arrival in Instanbul provides no relief as their contact is dead, the payment is missing, the deal is off, and they gradually realize that they are being held prisoner.  Desperate measures allow them to leap from this frying pan right into the fire of the Franco-Prussian Campaign of 1806.Ms. Novik has provided another exciting entry in this increasingly interesting series; compared to these cascading crises, the outward journey seems a cakewalk!  Temeraire continues to display the genius that makes Celestials royal advisors back in China; he'll be Lien's equal yet, just wait and see.  Two new dragon characters, Arkady the wily feral leader and Izkierka the ferocious hatchling, and the deliberately infuriating mixed-heritage Tharkay make for a lot of fun and no little trouble.  I particularly enjoyed the draconic explanation for the success of the French offensive (I'm embarrassed to admit that it reads more plausibly than the historical truth!) and the high tragedy and low comedy of the interruption of their retreat by a dragon hatching!  The only nit I care to pick is to ask just what the Hell is the title 
  
Black Powder War







  
  
     supposed to mean?  Titles don't seem to be Ms. Novik's strong suit as she admits that the cliched but IMHO still the best 
  
His Majesty's Dragon







  
  
     was imposed upon her.I excitedly look forward to reading the rest:
  
Empire of Ivory







  
  
    ,
  
Victory of Eagles







  
  
    , and 
  
Tongues of Serpents







  
  
    .Note: if you find yourself intrigued by the idea of Napoleonic warfare with dragons, how about American Revolutionary warfare with dragons?
  
Dragon America







  
  
    Or American Civil War naval action...with magic?
  
Land of Mist and Snow

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