RUTH F. (ruthy) reviewed on 12/13/2008 + 56 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

I enjoyed reading this book since it was a change from the usual "history" type recount and more of a contemporary setting. It's set in Modern Day USA and written from the point of view and experiences of a teen-aged boy who really doesn't want to write it but has to because of his job and the help it will give to the preservation of the species of dragons that few people ever see from a long distance and rarer still from a close-up and personal situation. In fact most people up to the time the incidents in the book happen deny there are dragons. The main character has the usual teen-age complaints especially since he is the son of a conservator or "Park Ranger" type Forest Service administrator who is bound to his calling no matter the problems of beaureaucratic aspect of the requirements of his job (and those requirements are onerous to say the least)out in the middle of nowhere. I felt in some ways that the author was a little clumsy in representing and expressing the feelings of a "teen-ager", but she puts him in some really gut-wrenching life situations - so that may account for it. Ultimately, it is a very refreshing look at the possibility of "if there were dragons - what would they be like?" and "what we do to save the rapidly dwindling numbers of them".

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