{"id":968,"date":"2009-12-17T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2009-12-17T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T03:53:22","slug":"review-of-empire-of-ivory-by-naomi-novik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Review of Empire of Ivory, by Naomi Novik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/empire_of_ivory.jpg\" alt=\"empire_of_ivory\" title=\"empire_of_ivory\" width=\"97\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-969\" \/><em>Empire of Ivory<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Naomi Novik<\/p>\n<p>Read by Simon Vance<\/p>\n<p>Random House Audio, 2007.  11 hours, 7 minutes on 10 compact discs.<br \/>\nStarred Review<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the fourth book about Temeraire, the celestial dragon who fights with his captain William Lawrence in England&#8217;s Aerial Corps against Napoleon&#8217;s forces!<\/p>\n<p>You definitely need to read these books in order.  By this time, I am wholly caught up in the saga.  Although Book Three, <em>Black Powder War<\/em> did not end with a cliffhanger, <em>Empire of Ivory<\/em> begins in the thick of things as if it did.  It turns out that the expedition that ended the previous book was not as simple a solution as we thought it would be, and this book begins in the middle of a struggle to carry it out.<\/p>\n<p>When Will Lawrence does get safely to England, he learns that the dragons of England are sick.  However, it turns out that Temeraire may be able to find a cure in Africa.  Along the way, we see the repercussions of the slave trade in a world where the natives of the African interior have dragons of their own.  There&#8217;s all kinds of danger and ingenuity and narrow escapes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to these books on my commute to work, thankful that I moved further away!  <em>Empire of Ivory<\/em> does end on a cliffhanger, so I checked out the next book the very same day I finished it, and am now eagerly looking forward to my next day&#8217;s commute.  I have also gotten hooked on Simon Vance&#8217;s reading style, complete with accents, which is just as well.  I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d stay up all night reading the next book if I was enjoying the print version.  Listening slows me down in a thoroughly enjoyable way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345496876\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/empire_of_ivory.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/empire_of_ivory.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik Read by Simon Vance Random House Audio, 2007. 11 hours, 7 minutes on 10 compact discs. Starred Review Ah, the fourth book about Temeraire, the celestial dragon who fights with his captain William Lawrence in England&#8217;s Aerial Corps against Napoleon&#8217;s forces! You definitely need to read these books in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,58,39,9,5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-alternate-history","category-audiobooks","category-fantasy","category-fiction-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}