I'm dropping out at 40%. Temeraire, the dragon, just doesn't make up for Captain Will Laurence's stick-in-the-mud personality, a rather dire situation as he is the main character in this book. It's a slog that I started after my wife told me about how great Novik's Uprooted is. I've had this book in my Kindle library since 2011, and never got around to reading past the first few pages.

Well, I've made it fairly well through, and I feel okay dropping this for something a little more engaging.

It's a good reminder that dragons alone don't make a book awesome.