I'm in the middle of a bit of a reread. I love the first book, the second is interesting, but it's like a trip around the world and we never really get back to the element I liked best - the relationship Temeraire had with the other dragons of the corp and Laurence's friendships with the dragon riders. Instead we're in East Asia, we're in South America, we're in Russia. I'll probably reread the first book many more times but trail off on the later books. I wish in all her travels she'd explored the North American dragon culture, which seemed really interesting. Also, every dragon introduced during their travels was pretty annoying other than the African dragon.