Dragons of the Valley-Donita K. Paul

The Dragons of the Valley has one distinct flaw.  It failed to bring me in within the first hundred pages.  Considering that there are many readers who implement the 50-page [if they aren't intrigued by a book after 50 pages, their through with the book] this is a very big problem.  While that was a huge problem for me there was also the ever-present Donita K. Paul character flair.