*joins in pleasure at Naomi Novik's work* Yep. Not Pern and I'm glad of it. More like World War II air battles fought during the Napoleanic wars with living airplanes.

Minor niggles in writing style but aside from that, damn good. The rest of the series is out, btw. She's got a work in progress quoted in the back of "Black Powder War" but I don't know how long it will be before that one comes out.

*returns to child chasing duties*

She's writing a fourth book? Hurray!

I like the way that Novik keeps the dialogue period-sounding without being intrusive, as it would be if she made heavy use of accents, etc.

Chantal

Yep. I'm looking forward to it, as the third book left things on a desperate note.

There are places in her text where there's a mild touch of a style of writing I see a lot in fandom. A kind of effort to be casual that overdoes it. I can't quite describe it, unfortunately, or I'd have a better idea of what it is.

Temeraire is fantastic. Go the livejournal authors! There's quite a good LJ community for the Naomi Novik books: the_covert, it has fic and commentary. They're good with spoiler warnings too.

I love Novik's dragons and their riders. They're not Pern by any means, and that's a very good thing. Novik has made a real world story even with the dragons added in. Her characters aren't all one way or another, and I love it.

Not that Pern is bad. It's just that Novik's world is multi-dimensional in ways Pern isn't.