Back Cover Synopsis: There are very many reasons why British summers are either non-existent or, alternatively, held on a Thursday. Many of these reasons are either scientific, mad, or both - but all of them are wrong, especially the scientific ones. The real reason why it rains perpetually from January 1st to December 31st (incl.) is, of course, irritable Chinese water dragons.
Karen is one such legendary creature. Ancient, noble, near-indestructible and, for a number of wildly improbable reasons, working as an estate-agent, Karen is irritable quite a lot of the time. Hence Wimbledon. She becomes positively incensed, however, when she discovers that her father, the Adjutant General to the Dragon King of the North-west, has been kidnapped by a mob of livid weathermen.
This book was pretty funny. Just reading the synopsis is confusing and outrageous, like the book itself, but that makes it very interesting. Apparently dragons can change into humans and a special type of goldfish, along with being a dragon. So Karen, the main character, becomes human because she saw a human guy she fell in love with. But her running away caused problems back home. And then you have crazy weathermen all upset because they know about the dragons and want to tell the world, but government people don't want dragons exposed, they want to use them as a weapon. Parts of it get very confusing, but it's usually pretty easy to follow.
The only downside I saw was that the ending didn't really finish things off well. In a way they did, they did answer the question of whether or not Karen would remain human or be a dragon again, but some other issues weren't really answered. Books do that sometimes though to keep the imagination running :)
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