cariad, this is such a long story, I'd like to review it in chunks, if you don't mind! I havn't read it all the way through yet - I've just leapt in and started commenting as I went. I am thoroughly enjoying it, the narrator is an interesting mix of sensual female and pragmatic captain, determined individual yet yearning virgin.

Plus I have a real thing about dragons, and I sneaked a look at the end. Yum. (Are you an Anne McCaffrey fan? Don't like her writing, but I love her worlds, and I WANT a dragon).

So I'll post blocks of bits. Hope that's OK.