I enjoyed this book. It was not a farce like I am used to from this author. It was an interesting story about a young man who finds out he is a dragon when he graduates college. He is apparently a powerful near pure blood and so everyone wants a piece of him. This book was slow moving and a bit meandering but was somehow riveting all the same. I just had to keep reading to see how he was going to grow into his powers. It was well written as you'd expect from this accomplished author. Lots of interesting secondary characters. Lovely feel for New Orleans where the main portion of the book takes place. There are a couple more in the series and I will be reading them. ( )

Change "Skeeve" to "Griff", "Aahz" to "Mose" and "Bazaar at Deva" to "New Orleans" and you have this book.

Not looking for any more of this series. ( )

Dragon's Wild lives up to Asprin's tradition of well told but quirky stories that you can't help laughing at. It's less out-right farcical than Phule's Company and the Mything series, which means it worked better for me as a humorous read (I'm not really a fan of farce.) Dragon's Wild kept me laughing out loud.

If you are a critical reader, this is not the book for you. Other reviewers criticisms of exposition and weak story are legit. For me the characters, the feel of the Big Easy, the world, and especially the humor more than made up for that, but YMMV. ( )

I got a chance to meet Robert Asprin at a convention back in the 80s, and he was awesome. I've very much enjoyed some of his previous works, and I really wanted to like this one, too. I wish I could rate it higher, but there are some major weaknesses in here, particularly the amount of tedious explanations (really, is there ANYONE who doesn't already know about law enforcement profiling?). It gets to the point where, when you see yet another explanation coming (and you will see them coming), you groan to yourself and start skimming. Actually, I would have appreciated some insight into gambling and odds, but but then suddenly an editor showed up out of nowhere and the one bit that would have been most interesting got skipped. Aw.

And I forgot how very sexist Asprin can be. I mean, he's not Heinlein bad, but lord, it's not good. I would say it's a nice candy sort of book, but the treatment of female characters smacks too much of adolescent fantasy.

Worst part, I bought all three in the series when I found them at Half-Price Books. So I'll probably give the next one a shot. Worst case scenario, it's a fast read. ( )

Change "Skeeve" to "Griff", "Aahz" to "Mose" and "Bazaar at Deva" to "New Orleans" and you have this book.

Not looking for any more of this series. ( )