Yet another one where I don't really know what to think besides "gee no wonder I put off reading this for so long". Which is not to say I think this is a bad book. It's just a weird book. You definitely don't get what you expect with this. It follows Jake Mendoza, who has grown up isolated from society in one of three dragon sanctuaries world-wide as he adopts a motherless dragon baby. But it's not exactly a standard boy-meets-dragon narrative; it's more like an autobiography of a scientific discovery in the modern world except that things are a little different in terms of other animals being described as intelligent.

The roughest part is getting used to the writing style, which is apparently authentic teenage boy? Full of interjections, sentence fragment, and self-loathing. The plot, such as it is, is incredibly slow and jumpy. Imagine a mockumentary about discovering dragons and you're just about there. My issue is: I do respect what this book does in terms of working with genre conventions or just flat out ignoring them, and the commitment to style is also impressive, but it's a hard read and it doesn't really get more fun or engaging as it goes on.