I nearly DNF'ed His Majesty's Dragon. I kept going through it because I was hoping that things would pick up enough to finish the series. After all, it is a twelve book series by an author I have already enjoyed. I did manage to finish this book, but I will not be picking up the second book in the series.

I actually had to sit back and figure out why this book was not working for me. The writing was well done. The character's vivid and unique for the most part. It should have at least been an ok read, except for me it was not.

Part of my disconnect was due to it be period fiction. I do not gravitate towards historical anything, and this book was written to mirror the speaking and mannerisms of the time. This means that it was horribly sexist making me want to smack some sense into the main character. There were only two characters that I liked, both were female. Even the main female character drove me nuts.

The second reason that this book did not resonate for me was the lack of conflict. It is a novel about a war and yet every scene seemed anticlimactic. I honestly just did not care.

It took me nearly a month to finish his book, which for me is an extremely long time. I finally finished reading it via text to speech while I was finishing something else. It just was not engaging enough for me to sit down and read by itself.