...I will get around to reading this just as soon as I can get over balking at the fact that that dragon's design is basically a cat with wings. And mouse-ears I guess.
@toomanywords: Neopet! Yes, it does look uncannily like one. I was having trouble putting my finger on what was upsetting me here (a dragon that looks mostly like a cat should
theoretically be right up my alley; I am quite fond of both after all), it's partly just how much the cover art evokes certain childish western cartoonish stuff of my youth. (From a period where that, almost certainly, was sure to be accompanied by embarassingly bad writing and the like).
Anyway, it seems likely I'll like it once I get around to it. Cat-dragons are, again, theoretically a win-win. And stuff like this tends to be enjoyable even when it's awful. ~w~