It is not very fair, though, that I should allow them to have sense because they will contrive one unpleasantness after another what if cows are very clever, only they do not like to make a fuss about it?’ ‘If they dislike fuss enough to tolerate being eaten,’ Laurence said, with rather an amused expression, ‘surely it need not matter one way or another. A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik’s Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellersthey are a worldwide phenomenon. And I am quite sure the bunyips are not, though they do not seem to talk at all: they are only nasty thinking creatures.
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