This book gets more like 2.5 stars.

I...enjoyed this book. It was a book. I read it. I finished it. Book.

There were many things that I felt were missing when I read this book.

I know that, as readers, there are certain things we love. For instance, I love setting, figurative language, and characterization. You may like dialogue, backstory, and a specific type of point of view. We all differ on what we like.

Some of the things that I enjoy when I read were missing.

I have no clue what Siobhan, Owen, Sadie, Aodhan, Mum & Dad, Hannah, and Lottie look like. Does that matter? Immensely. What a person looks like adds greatly to their character. Instead, the reader is left floundering going "What does Owen look like? I know he has shoulders. But hair color, eye color? Height. Crooked teeth?" All of these things matter, believe it or not. And that is one of my favorite things about reading. But who cares right? This book was about dragons.

The setting was nice. Everyone likes Canada right? They are my neighbor to the north. Yay Canada! However, as a non-Canadian, and a straight up American (guns and Ford F 150 excluded) I did not get much of a sense of Canada. Now, I do have Canadian friends, and had to ask them a couple questions about Canada. That's okay. But when my setting is just corn fields and a school building, liven it up. Just. Give it some flair. Use your words to make me feel like I am breathing in corn nuggets. Believe me, it works when you are a reader, to have a setting such as that. That was missing. But that's quite alright. This book was about dragons.

This book was certainly written in an interesting way. The Story of Owen. Written by Siobhan the bard. Siobhan, who hardly mentioned Owen, whose story we are learning. Yes, Owen was in this book. So were dragons. But this was more a story about Siobhan than a story about Owen. A book by Siobhan that Mentions Owen the Dragon Slayer sounds like a bit more of an accurate title. It doesn't matter though, there's dragons in this book.

The dragons. You think that as a book about a dragon slayer, there would be some dragons. And yes, there were some dragons. Dragons taking over shit and killing people.

However, there were no dragons that I could really tell you about, since they were not properly detailed and explained to me. There are so many ways you could go with telling the reader what a dragon looks like. Scales and spikes and sharp teeth, feathers even. I read about none of this. So many colors dragons come in. The colors were not mentioned. "The dragon was the size of my car." That's nice, what else about the dragon makes me want to close this book and take a breath because what is about to happen is going to make me squeal? So many missed opportunities about dragons that I feel I felt I wasted my time reading this book.

This book was more about the daily life of teenagers than a dragon slayer with dragons.

On the plus side Ms. Johnston, there was no romance and there were dragons. I do commend you for that.

You get two stars for excellent writing (minus all the things I just complained about). You are a competent author and I see more good things coming from you. I just may not read them because the title may mislead me.