A good fantasy book also manages to captivate me in times of games, films and Netflix series. And the book series"The fire riders of their majesty"Has done it as well as no history for a long time. The premise on paper sounds totally simple: the story plays in Napoleon's times - with the fundamental difference that dragons exist and also mix in the wars.
Simple, but super exciting and awesome! Not only do I see that, but also the director of the Lord of Rings films Peter Jackson, who actually wanted to implement the book series as a film series.
Here you will find the first volume on Amazon
What is it all about?
If a book genre is as large as fantasy, then inevitably many novels are inevitably similar. But not "the fire riders of their majesty". The book series, which is simply called "Temeraire" in English, has a fresh and unused approach.
The English Marine captain Will Laurence finds a dragon's egg from which a dragon immediately slips on when conquering a French ship. And since dragons bind to the first people they see while slipping, there is only one thing left to do: give the command of his ship and join the fire riders, the dragon unit of the British army. There he and his new friend Temeraire are trained to fight the French army, who is already planning their next blow.
Here you get the book series on Amazon
The film adaptation could have been a new master of the rings
Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, also liked the series very much, which is why he secured the filming rights.Nobody knows exactly why a film never appeared afterwards. In oneReddit-Postclarified the author Naomi Novik that the rights have now been returned to them.
Very, very bad, I would have really enjoyed this film, but instead Jackson filmed another fantasy/sci-fi book with Mortal Engines. The film flopped. Maybe there will still be hope for the fire riders in the future?
All nine books in the overview
- Volume 1: Dragon Brut
- Volume 2: Dragon Prince
- Volume 3: Drachenzorn
- Volume 4: dragon gloss
- Volume 5: Dragon Wacht
- Volume 6: Dragon Flame
- Volume 7: Dragon gold
- Volume 8: Dragon enemy
- Volume 9: Dragon victory
On Amazon you will find the first volume here
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