You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

It's the Napoleonic Wars with dragons.

I've only read the first one - got it free when my local Forbidden Planet was reborn in a new, bigger form - but it was quite good. I'm waiting for the second to come out in paperback in its UK form - I think the US version is edited differently? Or something.

Very enjoyable. As said above: the Napoleonic wars, but everyone has dragons, and uses 'em. The trilogy follows a naval officer who accidentally ends up with a dragon meant for Napoleon. There are definite similarities to the Pern series in how the dragons are handled, but nothing ridiculously close. The style is very much Horatio Hornblower.

I'm particularly impressed, also, by the way the author manages to include strong and interesting women within the context of the nineteenth century. Often people just stick modern women into the past, and it doesn't work. None of that here.

In short: read, or try. I'd love to see Jackson make the movies. He's got the special effects team, and the books have a very gritty feel akin to the LoTR movies.