Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First let me say I LOVE the idea of this book. I love the concept. The author definitely has a way with words and her descriptiveness is really well done. For that I would give this book 2.5 stars. But that's about it. I do NOT understand the 5 star reviews. Come on people. 5 stars?! The story starts out promising with a mysterious dragon prince and a brave young woman volunteering to be his bride so that her good friend can marry the man she loves. But once at the castle the author inexplicably stops the story development. It then reads more like a diary of the main characters daily activities. I mean really. Right down to the most boring and mundane minutiae. Her meals. Her gowns. Her dreams. Her every thought about the simplest things. It is almost as if the author just got lazy and didn't want to take the time to develop an actual story. Page after page of this nonsense. There was NO need for this. And meanwhile you hardly see or hear from the dragon prince. He is just scenery. No depth. No breadth to his character. He is painfully one dimensional. As story like this would have been better told from third person so he could be developed more. So I yawned and limped through the bulk of the book. A lot of the conversation was corny as well. And the ending was rushed like the ending of a Scooby Doo episode. Here again the author could have done so much more. But it was just as flat and boring as the middle of the book. It was one long recitation by the dragon about why he is cursed and why he allowed woman after woman to come to their deaths. I'm sorry but it was silly and half thought out. This book could have been so much more. I'm glad I got it free. I have no idea why anyone would rate it a 5 star. Have we been dummed down this badly by all these new self publishers? I don't know. To the author I say nice try but this story needs more meat. More sustenance. More action. Less first person musings about the weather and her gowns.