This is an enjoyable book, if not a profound one. Vetch, the main character, is a serf, which, in his world, is worse than being a slave. Slaves can be sold, but serfs are bound to the land. A jouster - a fighting dragon rider - saves him from his world of starvation and constant work to take him as a dragon boy. Vetch learns to care for dragons, both in the sense of serving their needs and also in the sense of loving and appreciating them. When a dragon female is accidentally allowed to mate, he steals her first egg and tends it, bonding to and caring for the dragonet that is eventually hatched. Vetch's master, Ari also raised his dragon, Hashet, from an egg and it is apparent how much they care for each other.
Spoiler: in the end Vetch escapes on Avatre and Ari helps him. This is not a real surprise - the story had been pointing that way from the beginning.
Simple, straightforward, but still interesting, especially for those who love reading about dragons and training them.
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