“Inspired by,” (and naming characters after) would be more accurate. Honestly, I find myself a little irritated that the movie even goes by the same title as the books. Well, that’s because the books and the movies are nothing alike. And why were there twelve, anyhow? The movie is just one fairly simple story. I suppose that I expected something akin to the How to Train Your Dragon movies and maybe even the TV series, and I imagine I thought that the books were not going to be as good. Little did I know that book one would not be enough for us, and that we would end up buying Eamon the entire box set and giving months of our bedtime reading to enjoying this together. I think we ended up reading book number one of this fairly hefty twelve-volume series because it was on a fourth grade reading list. Can Hiccup do it without being torn limb from limb? Join the adventures and misadventures as he finds a new way to train dragons…and becomes a hero.” But it is what it is, and the least the series deserves is a late review.Īmazon’s blurb for the first book is as follows: “Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans, tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan by catching and training a dragon. Boo! This series deserves better than a months-stale review. It’s hard for me to believe that I didn’t do this review earlier, though we did finish reading as I was tackling a sizable backlog.
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