I have to say I just lost interest. I felt it happening in the 3rd book and then I took a long break but nothing grabbed me with this book.

Una epidemia de origen desconocido e incurable está diezmando la flota de dragones, obligando a los afectados a permanecer en cuarentena.
Únicamente Temerario y un pequeño grupo de dragones “novatos” está disponible para hacer frente a las incursiones aéreas cada vez más peligrosas de Francia.
Solo hay una solución: Temerario y su capitán, Will Laurence, deberán levantar el vuelo rumbo a África, cuyas costas pueden ser la cura de la misteriosa y mortal plaga.

OMGWTF Cliffhanger? Write faster, Naomi! ( )

Felt very different from the other books, I suppose in a 9 book series it's going to go in some different directions. I will admit this is my least favorite in the series so far - I was a bit confused about how they figured out a few things and maybe I just drifted on a few sections and didn't feel the action was as good. The story is still very interesting and the last 40 pages or so really threw me for a loop, a great spin and I'm dying to read book 5 because of it. ( )

Overall I really liked this one! A few critiques about how race/slavery was handled below.

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I think Novik could have given a little more care to avoid the 'savage native' stereotype, but I appreciated that at the very least Novik included a lot of praise for how ingenious the prison they were held in was. I also thought it was interesting that the missionary's wife chose to stay, commenting that she and her daughters would never be truly free in England because of their race and gender. I also really liked that Novik forced Lawrence to be actively anti-slavery by choosing to risk his friendship by taking the missionary family abroad in the first place and freeing the captured people after escaping himself. Prior, he's just said he was against it, but never really did anything about it. I love the character arc, and I think the ending (choosing to do what's right even at the cost of going against his government) is a great example of how his character is slowly becoming more active and less passive in what he claims to believe. I hope that theme continues with the 'rights for dragons' arc too! ( )