{"id":382,"date":"2008-03-05T02:15:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/03\/05\/black-powder-war-a-quick-review\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:49:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:49:28","slug":"black-powder-war-a-quick-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/03\/05\/black-powder-war-a-quick-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Powder War &#8211; A Quick Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_happy.gif\" alt=\"Happy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Happy&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/action_eat.gif\" alt=\"Eating my 30 g of carb snack before bed\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> Eating my 30 g of carb snack before bed&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/>The third book of the Temeraire series finds our celestial dragon and his captain Laurence winging their way to Turkey to pick up some dragon eggs for the British government.  On the way there , they encounter feral dragons.  On the way home they get embroiled in the French\/Prussian conflict.  And there is a whole bunch more stuff that goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Not as good as the first two, this book is still one of the most interesting dragon fantasies out there.  Well written, meticulously researched, this ain&#8217;t your father&#8217;s alternate history.<\/p>\n<p>Go get this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Happy&nbsp;][&nbsp; Currently: Eating my 30 g of carb snack before bed&nbsp;]The third book of the Temeraire series finds our celestial dragon and his captain Laurence winging their way to Turkey to pick up some dragon eggs for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/03\/05\/black-powder-war-a-quick-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Powder War - A Quick Review - Ubalblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2008\/03\/05\/black-powder-war-a-quick-review\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Powder War - A Quick Review - Ubalblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&nbsp; 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