I was wondering how this would work for me, considering that I haven't read any of the previous books. The answer is: not well. I got 12 pages in, and I felt like I was drowning in references to previous books. I just checked my collection and this is the only one I own, so my choices are to get one or more of the earlier ones in order to get myself up to speed before reading this, or just offloading this book. I'll opt to offload it. I'm pretty sure I picked it up on a whim at a library book sale, so it's not like I had a pressing reason to read it.

I liked this the most of the Dragon stories so far. The beginning was a little weird, but I rather enjoyed the whole story and Jim pretty much stopped whining.
And we got to see some of Jim and Angie together, which was nice as Angie has pretty much been a stage prop in the storyline so far. ( )