You make good points, madam. I will say no more.

as for Temeraire... I will read it mostly due to the opening sentences of the Post review.

Is there anything more to say about dragons? Stalwart presences in myth and fantasy, they've hoarded gold, incinerated villages, been slain by countless heroes and (sing it with me) "frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee."