I'd heard good things about this book and they were all true - started it last night and put it down only to sleep, finished this morning! Kind of a cross between Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, and the movie "How To Train Your Dragon". A well-written, well-researched story reimagining England fighting the war with Napoleon if dragons existed and formed an air force branch of the military. Good characters, good story, good details of the world - can't wait to get my hands on the next book!