Request Literary Evaluation of a couple of Books.

[dumbledore11214]

> > kempermentor@ writes:
> > 
> > People  have recommended Nix, but I can't get into him either.  
> > 
> > What I want more of are writers with the callibur of JKR, Stroud  
and 
> > Pullman.  
> > Their stories are engaging, sly, humorous,  complex.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Hey Kemper. There are two series I recently read and fell in love 
with.
> 
> Both were actually recommended to me by list members here.
> 
> First one is the books by Naomi Nowik, starting with "her majesty 
> dragon" and two others - sort of AU history of Napoleonic wars, AU 
> being that dragons are part of all societies and part of the armies.
> 
> It is very well placed in historic context, fast paced, 
> entertaining,etc and the main dragon and his captain are absolutely 
> amazing characters.
> 
> Here is the link at Wiki, but beware of spoilers:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temeraire_(series)
>


Alla:

Uh, DUH.

The second one is Coldfire trilogy by C. Friedman.

They are dark, but brilliant otherwise IMO :)