Plus, if you listen to the audio book, David Tennant is a wonderful narrator. Will readers have fun though? Absolutely! It’s a great story and inspiration for a hit movie series, and it is definitely worth checking out…no matter how much your familiar with the tale. (Then again, who isn’t?) The story is also broken into two distinctive parts, less about how to actually train your dragon than the chaos that ensued. Toothless isn’t necessarily as loveable (at least in David Tennant’s rendition), more of a nuisance than anything else. That being said, I do think the movie is a better overall story. So if you decide to pick up this story, know you won’t necessarily meet the Hiccup and Toothless you met in the movies. Dragons are loved by the Hooligans, and they are part of the initiation into adulthood. It’s more violent, with characters a bit less likeable, and a much different type of tribe. I knew going into this book that it was quite different than the movie franchise. Yet, like in all great stories, Hiccup and Toothless do manage to come together in the end to defeat a great foe! Even with Hiccup able to speak dragonese, Toothless doesn’t have any desire to respond. Toothless is stubborn and stuck up, more interested in himself than helping others, and quite miniscule in size. But in the novel, there is quite a different tale. How to Train Your Dragon is the novel inspiration for the hit movie series, but it is quite different from the movie that many have come to know and love! While Hiccup is still a “weaker” and less “brave” Viking, compared to his comrades, the movie’s Toothless is a loveable beast that helps bring about acceptance to dragons again. Can he manage to get his dragon to obey and pass initiation? Or will he risk being banished from his tribe for good? But, when it is finally time for his initiation, yelling at his small (and stubborn) dragon, Toothless, just doesn’t seem to work. Or, well, that’s what Hiccup has been told by his tribe for years now.
Audio Book Performance: ★★★★★ (5 / 5 Stars)
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