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[harreki]

Hey guys, I need some input for my university project and knowing how awesome you people are I'm sure you can answer these extremely simple questions:

How do you keep your memories from your travels? Or what things?

Alternatively, or as well:

What things do you associate with travelling?

Feel free to answer by comment, reblog or messaging me, whichever you want ^^

Thank you! :)

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Book review: Temeraire

I bought this book because of its beautiful cover shortly after finishing the Inheritance cycle, not expecting much more than a ripoff. After getting round to read it years later, I'm pleased to say that wasn't the case.

The book started off quite exciting and I was really looking forward to finding out what the dragons were like because that is pretty much the most interesting part about fantasy books: the culture. I was not disappointed. The dragons were well thought-through and developed and I love how they are able to talk. It was fascinating to view how the different societies around that time were structured had dragons existed.

Speaking of talking dragons: a giant winged beast conversing in an overly polite manner has to be one of the most amusing things I have seen.

And that's about all the praise I can offer this book.

Less than half way through it becomes rather evident what special little snowflakes Temeraire and Laurence are. Yes, there's hardship, yes, they make mistakes and experience loss but no matter what, they always /always/ come out at the better end. It gets very boring very quickly.

In my opinion, none of the characters have much depth either. They have two dimensions at most and even those are pretty simplistic, the dragons being more exciting than any of the humans.

In the end, to no one's surprise, Temeraire saves the day and the books is finally over. Needless to say I won't read the rest of the series, give me the Winds of Winter or something.

Should you read this book? If you love dragons and stories where happy endings are a given then yes, please do. If you want a thrilling story you should probably look elsewhere. Finally I got round to write this review, thanks for reading ^^