The first hundred pages race by with the magic ease of a story telling itself. But a funny thing happens on the way to the foregone conclusion. Con anymore, thus we can t feel the rightness of them so clearly. This is partly due to the book s extraordinary temporal scope. Disregarding flashbacks, the story occurs over five days.
Con starts to seem schizophrenic.
The calendar doesn t yield him the possibility of subtler transitions, even if the page count does. The effect can be rather disconcerting, and never more so than at the end, when one realizes these two have agreed to get married after a whopping nineteen days of intimacy , the bulk of it during the height of their adolescence. However, most of these doubts arise once the book has been finished and left to cool on the shelf for a day or two, which fact is the most convincing testament to the engaging plot, intriguing characters and ultimately enjoyable experience of reading The Dragon s Bride .