/lit/ - Literature

>>8469623
Going to recommend the Temeraire books for the second time in this thread, because you opened with LOGH.

The series is set in the Napoleonic wars, except there are dragons, and the dragons get used for aerial combat. (There's no magic, just talking dragons.) A principled but uptight naval captain, William Laurence, winds up with a dragon egg, and gets inducted into Britain's aerial corps. They're part historical military fiction (the first book began its life as Master and Commander fanfiction) and part travelogue, because Laurence and the dragon, Temeraire, keep getting shipped around the world.

Laurence and Temeraire, jointly, share a lot of traits with Yang: Laurence is the dutiful officer, Temeraire is inquisitively bookish and quirky and inspires personal loyalty, both of them wind up suffering under incompetent or outright hateful commanders. (Napoleon should remind you of Reinhard because Reinhard is space Prussian Napoleon anyway, but Napoleon only shows up in person a couple times.) Britain's politicians, commanders, society, and allies are depicted as seriously flawed, while France becomes morally superior in many ways over the course of the series. Laurence winds up with a lot of grudging respect for Napoleon particularly. Because Laurence and Temeraire are the only narrators, you don't exactly get the even-handedness that you do with the FPA and Empire in LOGH. But no side is ever evil. Like the actual Napoleonic wars, they're just people shooting each other. With added dragons.

The battles are fun, the sea and land voyages are fun, the world building of "how would you incorporate a dragon into Napoleonic combat" is fun, it's just generally a fun, light series that somehow hits a lot of the same themes of wide-scale non-magic warfare between two non-evil entities that LOGH does.

The amnesiac weeaboo interlude at the start of book eight was pretty fucking weird though.