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Temeraire, Laurence and his crew have returned from China to find that the British dragons have come down with a cough. Unfortunately chicken soup doesn’t fix this cough. Rather, it is quickly causing the mass extinction of Britain’s arial corps.
Temeraire and Laurence are dispatched to Africa in search of a cure. While there, they learn about African society and how Dragons fit into it. In addition, Laurence and Temeraire are faced with a horrible decision between loyalty and the good of dragonkind.
This was a much better read tean the previous Temeraire book. Laurence’s devotion to the Celestial is heartwarming. Temeraire’s naivete in the face of cruelty and politics is still refreshing. This series had kept it fresh and is worth the read.