Ahoy there me mateys!  I picked this one up because it deals with genetically engineering dragons.  The description is "Build-A-Bear workshop meets Jurassic Park."  Dragons as pets?  Sign me up.  This was a fun read in some parts and extremely annoying in others.  Here by me thoughts:

Pros

- Dragons: I loved the idea of build-a-dragon to yer specifications. Security dragon?  Children's pet with polka dot scales?  Delivery dragons?  The design program and the silly work competitions were why this book didn't walk the plank.  I also liked 3-D printing the eggs and how obsessive the egg handlers were.

- Customer Service: I liked reading the transcripts of customer service calls and the parts of owner's manuals.  Silly and cheesy but still fun.

- Octavius: Aye, a dragon.  I wanted so much more of Octavius and his forays and antics.  For being so cool, he wasn't used enough or explained enough.  I would love to have Ocatavius in my life.

Cons

- Characters: I kinda hated the main character.  I almost didn't want to read this book based on how he was describing women at the beginning.  He also mostly came across as social inept but full of himself.  I never liked him or his motivations.  But dragons!

- The Dog Subplot: I could buy why this was there for the set-up of the novel to work.  I did not however like the deus ex machina resolution of this subplot at the end of the book.  The motivation of the bad guy involving the dogs was lame.

- The Younger Brother Subplot:  This was there to make main character seem sympathetic and unselfish and give him reasons to work for the dragon company.  This subplot didn't work at all.  In fact, he seemed even more selfish because he never seemed to really care what his brother would want.  Also his younger brother never felt like a real character.  Plus how the dragons were used to solve this issue was evil.

- The Geocaching: Subplot This was made into a fierce competition between him and love interest. It was to help ramp up tension between the two and help them meet and fall in love.  It was boring.  Especially how the dragon and pig helped them win.  So unrealistic.

- The Ex-Girlfriend Backstory:   Love interest was ex-girlfriend's roommate.  Just there so love interest and dude can have a bad past and lead to an enemies to lovers trope.  Ex-girlfriend is said to be crazy and seems to have a mental illness that is never really explained.  Could have had one scene to explain the "enemy" situation and removed the ex-girlfriend details altogether.  It slowed down the story and the pacing.

- The Dragon Business:  The more the operations of the company were described the less sense the company structure and day-to-day management made sense.  The big "evil" reveal was lackluster.

- The Mystery:  The main character spends a lot of time running around and supposedly hiding things from others.  He sucked at this.  Security cameras should have caught him.  Random strangers should have asked questions and caught him.  His co-workers should have caught him.  He should  have failed.  But nooooo, he is just too smart and amazing.

- Jeep and Girl:  Aye, girlfriend has to be so "hot" and her jeep is "so sexy."  Blech.  It got old.
Dragons:  I know!  There were such cool dragons but lots of weird interactions with the main character seemed ridiculous.  It was like they could read his mind and understand human thinking.  Except that main character was not logical and made horrible choices,

- The End:  Bad, just bad.  Basically the climax to the very end was confusing and seemingly out of nowhere.

So while this one doesn't walk the plank because I loved the genetic engineering sections, I really didn't like the rest of the book.  But I am in the minority so what do I know?  Arrrr!