I was surprised by how little I liked this book. I expect a new Robin McKinley book to be five stars or, at the very least, four and a half (if such existed).

That's not to say that this was a bad book. There was just something about Jake, the main character and narrator, that bothered me. Also, he sounded exactly like Robin McKinley does on her blog (with slightly less ungleblarghing) and I felt more like I was reading her memoir and she had replaced her dogs with a baby dragon.

So perhaps this is my fault, for knowing to much about an author. It's just...I had all these expectations and have always relied on her to create fun and memorable characters and Jake did not meet my expectations at all.

Still, it wasn't a bad book and I might have liked it better had it not been by her. But since it was, I was kinda disappointed.