A Boy and His Dragon

By: R. Cooper

Narrated by: Guy Veryzer

Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

A Being(s) in Love Story

Arthur MacArthur needs a job, and not just for the money. Before he dropped out of school to support his younger sister, he loved being a research assistant at the university. But working for a dragon, one of the rarest and least understood magical beings, has unforeseen complications. While Arthur may be the only applicant who isn’t afraid of Philbert Jones in his dragon form, the instant attraction he feels for his new employer is beyond disconcerting.

Bertie is a brilliant historian, but he can’t find his own notes without help - his house is a hoard of books and antiques, hence the need for an assistant. Setting the mess right is a dream come true for Arthur, who once aspired to be an archivist. But making sense of Bertie’s interest in him is another matter. After all, dragons collect treasure, and Arthur is anything but extraordinary.

©2012 R. Cooper (P)2014 Dreamspinner Press

This is one of my favorite books!

What made the experience of listening to A Boy and His Dragon the most enjoyable?

I have listened to this book at least 3 times. I love the characters, they are really well developed. The story is very entertaining. Definitely worth the money or credit. I would highly recommend.

Nobody can resist Arthur

As a history major this story has a special place in my heart. I feel Arthur's pain at not being able to finish his degree. And I feel his horror at Bertie's mess of a library - especially Roman artifacts in the downstairs bathroom??!! I get how Arthur might want to smack that Dragon on his nose. This book makes me want to dust my bookshelves. Like every time I get lazy I should go back to this book. To be honest, I listened to it while dusting and it was very inspiring. Audiobooks are necessary if you want me to stop reading physical books and get dinner made and the chores done.

I love Bertie and Arthur and I advise you to read (or listen) the rest of the books in the series to learn more about what happens to them, I promise it's adorable.

I just wish the narrator was a bit better. Maybe it was just me and it didn't match what was in my head. That is the curse of listening to a book or watching the movie after you have read the book. Bertie has a different sound in my head.

Slow narration

I enjoyed the story itself very much but the purposeful slow way the narrator read made it really had to get into.

fun read

I love all the books in this series. This is a fine one to start on as it stands alone. MLM Romance with supernatural elements is a lot of fun and this is a gentle low stakes story with a happy ending. The narrator is not my favorite, but he is better if you run it a little bit fast.
I think I went with 1.4 speed. these characters reoccur in The Firebird and other stories (final story in collection), A Dandelion for Tulip(minor), Sweet Clematis(minor but more than in dandelion), and the Tales of Two Seers (AU story)

Wonderful Story; SLOW narrator

I really love this story--enough that I tolerated the narrator. He isn't the worst I've heard but he narrates SO slowly. I sped the reading up to 1.35x and that put him around normal speed. I liked that I could tell the characters apart but I do wish he'd at least attempted the English accent.

Best in the series!

This one is my favorite I read it so many times. It’s a very cozy slow burn. I love coppers series and this is one of the best in the set.

Listen to the book at 1.25x (extra speed)

I agree with the other reviews. This narrator reads slow. So I HIGHLY recommend speeding up the story to 1.25x. He sounds normal here.

Narrator: Again reads slow and I feel like he could improve on his character distinction voices. He is reading the book, but not immersing the listeners like other narrators on Audible.

Story: There were times I was confused by the massive inner ranting or fast change of subjects, that I would forget what was happening in the book. I was confused a lot, which is disappointing cause the story had such huge potential!!! Overall a 3.5

great story, great narration, horrible mic

Use a free eq app to boost the treble. After I messed around with the levels I realized the narrator was fantastic. the problem I think is that the mic is too low quality and the first few paragraphs are not a good hook at all. once you clean up the audio a bit (takes maybe 2 min at most and the common pre made "treble boost" setting works well for things. Some phones and earbuds have an app like it already available.

honestly though I think if they find the time the author or the voice actor should at least run this through brusfi orsimilar

it is so worth it

the story is a lot of romance and lots of steam i love this story it is one of my favorites

Great Story of Affection Slowly Turning to Love

I enjoyed this great story of affection slowly turning to love, however the narration was so irritatingly slow I had to adjust the speed to 1.25 before I was comfortable listening. Half fairy tale and half shifter romance, it was the perfect mix of of cute and comfortable reading.