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Nice Dragons Finish Last and One Good Dragon Deserves Another

3/5. I was hoping this would be my pre-delivery/post-delivery reading* – something long and relatively undemanding – but I just . . . never liked it that much? Not enough to continue with the rest of the series. This is about the youngest dragon in an ancient clan of scheming, vicious dragons, and what it's like to be the one nice one who accidentally stumbles his way into power. It comes across as anti-Slytherin propaganda, basically. On behalf of my house, I would like to say that this dragon kid would have been eaten like twenty times over before these books even start, and I'm not sure it would be more than a small loss.

*Yes, eviction accomplished. Fifteen hours of labor, one failed epidural (yes, really, I should just stop being surprised when shit like this keeps happening to me), one seven pound eleven ounce Casterbrook. :D

Minimum Wage Magic and Part-Time Gods

3/5. Urban science-fantasy about a woman working in Detroit, a city with a god-spirit and a dragon consulate and almost no laws. About her absolutely massive family issues and a bad luck curse and hooking up with the mysterious badass former mercenary, like you do.

Entertaining indie* publications suitable for light reading. They don't really light me on fire, though, as the protag doesn't really have a community, and her only significant relationships we see are with her companion AI (interesting but unfulfilling) and the mercenary boyfriend (yawn). I've realized that for me, the difference between light reading that I enjoy and light reading that I love is that broader sense of community.

*I bring this up because these books are almost to pro publishing standards of presentation, but each volume had a continuity error significant enough to be startling. I mean, it happens, but I also notice, so there you go.