A review by tasharobinson
Golden Age and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

3.0

This collection feels like a bit of a hiccup at the end of the Temeraire series — some longer vignettes that don't feel like full short stories, a complete rewrite of Pride and Prejudice but within the Temeraire world (and with a much, much nicer and nobler and more understanding Mr. Darcy), and then a whole bunch of literal drabbles, just 100-word snippet portraits of various times and places. The AU where Temeraire becomes a pirate king was engaging and entertaining, and the portrait of a younger Jane, even though it feels like it could have been a full novel itself instead of a snippet. Mostly, though, this feels like a grab bag of ideas that didn't fully come to fruition, a nice lagniappe for series fans, but not really standing on its own.