Review: OK
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2012
The start of the book hooked me and I could not wait to see where it was going.  A boy survives the destruction of his village from a dragon.  There are all sorts of great ways for the story to go from this captivating opening.  Author picks a good, mysterious option but then the story drags for most of the rest of the novel as the author focuses on character development, magic rules explanations and a (not sufficiently interesting to me) related subplot.  Overall, this was OK but I was left feeling that a great potential storyline was missed after the author spent too much time off in a tangent.No significant editing issues were noted.  The Wizard and the Dragon is 4,186 Kindle locations long.  Standard length "paperback" novels seem to run in the 4,500 to 7,000 plus Kindle location range.  Long novels can range from 15,000 to 20,000 plus Kindle locations.