Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby OlsonMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I saw a review of this somewhere, I can't remember now exactly where, and added it to my wishlist, then picked it up when it was on sale. I'm glad I didn't pay full price, because I gave up on it about halfway through.
I'd got not quite halfway and it was feeling a bit tedious, with a very socially constrained protagonist who was often passive, a large number of basic editing errors (including it's/its), and very little plot per thousand words. I can forgive a slow-moving plot if everything else is excellent, but this wasn't. So I set it aside, and went off and read four other complete books before grudgingly picking it up again.
And there was more wordiness (with a lot of parentheticals, in the voice of the author, not the character, which had worn thin quite early on), and another scene in which there was finally a bit of action but the main character didn't actually do anything, and a second it's/its error, and I decided to ditch it.
I liked the premise of a cosy fantasy about a middle-aged woman who deals with an unexpected dragon, but the execution just didn't work for me.
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