The How To Train Your Dragon movie series is one of my wife's all time favourites so of course I had to read the book if I am to be respectable husband and teacher in her eyes!

The book is /so/ different from the films. I am very used to films deviating from (and usually badly representing) the books, however this was on another scale. And for the first time possibly in my life I can say I am glad for it. I much prefer the films to the book.

The book wasn't bad at all, but it also just wasn't anything special. It was relatively enjoyable to read and didn't feel like a chore to get through. The characters were decent, not irritating to deal with, but also nothing that I hugely connected to. In fact I felt a kind of numb apathy throughout the entire book. I never really got invested at all.