a very charming teen adventure. a horse girl story taken to the max, except also well-written, and the horses are dragons, and i wish all my friends had read this bc i want to talk fire lizards with someone. i loooove in fantasy series (and other books too, bone clocks comes to mind i suppose) where you change perspectives and suddenly see a character you know really well from a different pov and it’s like ‘yeah that scary awe-inspiring dragonrider is my pal from last month’s read :)’ it’s soooo fun. and also means i can retract my complaints about the declawing of lessa in the previous book, because she does read as scary and important here. i like the perspectives, like all the characters, think mccaffery’s prose is more consistently solid than it was at times before. i had a nice time, and im looking forward to hunting down a copy of dragonsinger so i can read it sooon. altho i read the whole thing (and wrote this) whilst travelling after very little sleep so i hope i remember what happened