Bruce Gargoyle's Reviews > Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

Ten Second Synopsis:
Jeremy Hatcher is a fantastic artist but his art teacher hates how he only draws imaginary things. When Jeremy stumbles across a magic shop, he discovers that dragons may exist outside his imagination.

This book is a little heftier than the first in the series and the characters were more fleshed out and felt more genuine. There’s quite a bit of situational humour in this one, as well as the predicament of Jeremy having an unwanted love interest. The problems that Jeremy has to face were pitched at exactly the right level for the middle grade audience, with friendships, forgiveness and facing criticism and disappointment some of the themes appearing in addition to the fantasy elements.

The scene in which Jeremy finds the magic shop follows the same scene from book one almost word for word, which I thought was a pretty cool way to link two stories in a series that are otherwise completely separate.