I enjoyed the first two books in this series - unfortunately it was difficult with the hard copies, and no web access at the time, to figure out which was book 1 so I read The Smoke Thief first :-(. The series relies heavily on the romance component to drive the plot but the author does create an imaginative medieval-like world with a dragon race on the brink of extinction. The magic is interesting while easy to understand with the dragons being able to shapeshift and having various unique Gifts. I was confused about the dream aspect of the plot and what it meant, which was likely intended by the author but not essential to the plot...or may have been a result of reading the first two books out of order. 
 I really liked the community of characters I met in both books and the world this author created so I want to pursue the rest of this series, in proper order this time, and see how things work out for everyone.