I have mixed views on this book, but overall I liked it. 
 Although it was a good story/premise I didn't really like the direction the author went with this. Don't get me wrong, I love dragons and anything having to do with them, but I honestly thought this book was going to be completely different than keeping boys and girls who can talk to dragons as prisoners and torturing them and having them kill dragons. It was off to a good start but when the military/government people started to put words into Mel's mouth to make her into the traitor and not believe a word of the truth she said, it annoyed me. The propaganda was unjust and wrong. The dragons weren't as evil as they made them out to be (view spoiler)[the Green dragons were the ones who were bloodthirsty (hide spoiler)]and it was disheartening to see them not even make an attempt to stop and wonder if what they're doing was wrong and question the validity of their actions towards the dragons. 
 The dragons were nice and peaceful, at least the majority of them, and it didn't bode well with me when the military started to kill the children. The whole military and its people were just awful and I hated that over half of the book, Mel was stuck in there. But other than that, it was interesting to meet new wonderful written characters and the whole thing that happened near the end with the dragons. (view spoiler)[the rescue attempt and the whole Trish being on their side was something unexpected although I totally saw it coming when Trish attacked her and injected her with something. I knew it was some sort of tracking device (hide spoiler)] 
 The book was well written and had exceptional imagery, not to mention dragons! I look forward to the sequel to see what happens to James and what the dragons do next.