Quick read that was a bit amusing. However, it's not something that will be particularly memorable.

Dragons are not my fictional being of choice (mermaids are), but the more I read them the less originality I find in their stories. Simply seems like they are all facing similar themes, speak similar languages, etc etc. But my kiddo was actively invested so I'll count it as a win and pray he dreams of Green Bay football and not fire holes inside dragon throats and mean boys jealous of their future leader.

Listened to the audiobook.

This book is something else! At first I was rather disgruntled because it’s not the same as the movie(especially Toothless and dragon training in general!!) but.

I ended up loving it just as much, if differently! It’s so creative and the names of everything so much fun! The narrator was really good too! I liked that it didn’t have a crush angle(Hiccup and Astrid in the movie), it was just the story, it was nice.

A fun read and hope to read the rest of the series(I had no idea there’s like 7 or 8 books. Edit: there’s actually 12!!! Even more -> Yay!!)

3.5*

Utterly charming. I would say this is a rare case of where the movie is actually better but they are so entirely different that it feels weird to compare them directly. That said, I think I will just stick to the movies.

I "read" this with my four year old and we both are in love. We actually followed along in the book while listening to the audiobook read by David Tennet *swoon*. It was the first time I had read a book this way and it worked out really well. We were able to enjoy all the drawings and overall cool way the book is visually written but could just relax and let someone else remember to make all the voices for a change.

We both got completely sucked into this book; it's a fantastic story! It's full of adventure, it's imaginative, it made us laugh and had us sitting at he edge of our seat wondering what would happen next. We bought a box set of the series because we liked it that much.

I imagine my son would appreciate it even more if he was older, I think he missed some of the humor and some of the subtleties of the storyline. But he did understand what was going on and wanted to keep reading and reading. Admittedly we stayed up well passed his bed time a few nights in a row because neither of us had the willpower to stop reading. I'm sure this will be a series he will read again when he's older too.

3.5

God, I hope my future kid likes dragons cause I'm gonna read them this book, can't wait to read the rest of of series

I thought I’d listen to the kids audiobooks that they hadn’t made it to the end of! No idea what my daughter disliked about this one, but I enjoyed it.

Narrated by David Tennant, and it’s worth it for that, but it’s also a great kids story about vikings and dragons. Lots of silly character names too.