Novik grew up in Roslyn Heights on Long Island. Novik has won many awards for her work, including the Alex, Audie, British Fantasy, Locus, Mythopoeic and Nebula Awards. Her standalone fantasy novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) were inspired by Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale respectively. She is known for the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons, and her Scholomance fantasy series (2020–2022). Naomi Novik (born April 30, 1973) is an American author of speculative fiction. Acquire His Majesty’s Dragon, and then settle in for a delicious, entertaining, utterly believable adventure you’re never going to forget.Naomi Novik at a book signing event in Philadelphia, July 2008 If you’ve never read the Temeraire series, you should. It has been a very long time since I have been this mesmerized and delighted by a fantasy series, or frankly any literary work. She has created a canon of work I believe will endure through time, come to be homed with classics like Adams’ Watership Downs, and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.Īnd in light of the fact I am such a very difficult reader to impress, it comes as astonishment that once I’d read all nine novels, I immediately, without hesitation, and with great delight, began the first in the series and swam my way through the entire series once again, relieving that joy. There is no peer for this, in my opinion. This is fantasy married to alternate history at its peak. In short, Novik’s world building is some of the best I’ve ever read.
Of course Napoleon added those dragon recruits to his troops to great effect, as did the British, and the Swiss, and the Russians.Īnd of course the Chinese revered and recognized dragonkind, built their cities to accommodate their draconian neighbours, gave them rights and employment, allowed them to create their own hierarchies and culture. Of course there are sentient dragons populating the globe. That surprise was further augmented by Novik’s impeccable research, the solidity of her character and plot development. Such a surprise awaited when I flipped to the first page of His Majesty’s Dragon: Napoleonic naval adventures married seamlessly and believably to an aerial component via dragons. Reader note: I’m reviewing the entire nine novels of the Temeraire series in this review.
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