This book has a very different writing style from her others. If you are a huge fan of her writing and are HATING this book stick it out until page 45 (at least in this edition).

That is the point where Jake meets his dragon. The book then delivers her wonderful description of the fantastic and also the relationships formed in the book.

It requires a bit more patience than her other books. Enjoy.



Sarah Smalley (United Kingdom) (2010/09/13):
The review by Yaffa says it straight...there's a good chance you'll dislike this book when you start reading it because it's very different from anything else by Robin McKinley. But then, she's always been a wordy writer, this just takes her wordiness to the extreme. I'll be blunt, I felt bludgeoned into submission with Dragonhaven: I read it, I enjoyed the plot, I wished she'd handled in a way that didn't give me a headache by a third of the way through.