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  • Miss Percy's Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons)

  • A Miss Percy Guide, Book 1
  • By: Quenby Olson
  • Narrated by: Zara Ramm
  • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (359 ratings)

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Miss Percy's Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons)

By: Quenby Olson
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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Publisher's summary

Miss Mildred Percy inherits a dragon.

Ah, but we’ve already got ahead of ourselves…

Miss Mildred Percy is a spinster. She does not dance, she has long stopped dreaming, and she certainly does not have adventures. That is, until her great uncle has the audacity to leave her an inheritance, one that includes a dragon’s egg.

The egg—as eggs are wont to do—decides to hatch, and Miss Mildred Percy is suddenly thrust out of the role of “spinster and general wallflower” and into the unprecedented position of “spinster and keeper of dragons.”

But England has not seen a dragon since…well, ever. And now Mildred must contend with raising a dragon (that should not exist), kindling a romance (with a humble vicar), and embarking on an adventure she never thought could be hers for the taking.

©2021 Quenby Olson (P)2022 Podium Audio
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Pride and prejudice and dragon

Funny and sweet. Not a story about dragons, really. More a regency romance with a dragon in it.

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Fun but slow wordy romp

Why use one sentence when you can use 6? I think the style is a legitimate callback to Austen and similar era writing, though not having read it myself I could be wrong. If you enjoy that style and know what you’re getting into then it’s a lovely story…if you’re hoping for a bit more action and more dragon, well, it’s a bit of a let down (though Fitz is great and the characters, including the dragon, are well fleshed out). Just could use a bit more showing and less telling in the writing itself, IMO.

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Delightful story, amazing narrator!

the story was a perfect break from heavier reading. I love everything and anything narrated by Zara Ramm!

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Entertaining

This is a sweet story of a surprising inheritance by a staid and proper Englishwoman. Adventure and a little romance develop along the way.

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Totally charming tale narrated by the magnificent Zara Ramm

After listening to the entire St Mary’s series for the sixth time, I was looking around for something new. I stated my search by narrator and came a toss this book. It is very charming, strong female lead, fun premise. I listened over two days. Already downloaded volume two.

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Delightful! Jane Austen with dragons.

Anything read by Zara Ramm is reliably enjoyable, the story is well written and engaging. I’m about to buy book two.

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Delightfully cute cozy story.

This is a delightfully cute cozy story about a spinster in Edwardian England whose lived her entire life as a shadow person to her domineering younger sister. Currently living as a nurse maid and tutor to her sisters kids, in her sister's house. And due to circumstances she inherited some of her uncle's possessions including a Dragon egg... and as the newly hatched baby Dragon grows and spreads his wings she's emboldened enough to spread her's too.
Zara Ramm absolutely caught the flavor of the time period and of Maud Percy as she narrated this story.

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I love this narrator

I could listen to her all day. The story is light and fun and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

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Author’s voice

The story is mildly familiar (though the addition of a fun lil dragon is great) but it’s the way the author let loose with parenthetical comments that makes it more fun and entertaining than most regency era stories.

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Story had some good spots and a lot of boring

It was so-so. Some of it was funny, but it drawled on ALOT. I did finish the story, but I honestly could have stopped listening at any time and not have felt compelled to finish it.

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