This was a cute book that didn't entice me enough to want to read any more from this series. The plot is fairly simple: a navy captain during a Fantasy-world version of the Napoleonic wars takes a dragon egg as a prize. When it hatches, he's bonded to the dragon and conscripted into the dragon-led air force. 
 For the first half of the book, the gentle pace and the kindness of the main character had me comparing this to The Goblin Emperor, a book that I admire for it's structure and characters. This book had likable characters, but apart from our hero none that felt particularly well rounded or real. The good guys are good guys and the villains are villains. I really loved the relationship between the captain and his dragon and (minus the weird part where he accidentally and awkwardly pleasures the dragon sexually???) their friendship was the most enjoyable part of the book for me. 
 There are a couple of female characters in this book, but only one seems to get any sort of development and the main character spends a lot of time wondering about the impropriety of women doing hard labor and "men's work." No queer characters, no specific mention of poc.