Dealing with Dragons

What a delightfully enchanting book! Turning tropes on their heads and referencing fairytales and myths along the way, Dealing With Dragons is an adventure you'll want to take! It's smart and witty, imaginative and simply charming. Although it is its own thing, the tone and ‘feeling' of the book reminded me of Diana Wynne Jones' book Howl's Moving Castle...and that's a huge compliment, because I've rarely found a book to compare.
Main character Cimorene is a wonderfully smart and independent princess who breaks tradition to go work for a dragon and that's only the beginning of the adventure that will take her into an enchanted forest, cross paths with witches and wizards, other princesses, stone knights and a whole slew of magic. Top that off with a light mystery and you have a winner all around. Suitable for the young and the young at heart and highly recommended!