A review by myjourneywithbooks
The Baby Dragon Café by A.T. Qureshi

Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

I picked this because it seemingly had that light-hearted cozy vibe but one chapter in and I realised it was one of those books that are just too cozy, if you get what I mean. The only good thing I can find to say about it is that it described the settings well enough to make it easy to visualise.

I wanted to mark this as a DNF after just a few chapters but it was easy to read, if extremely dull, so I gave it a chance and kept going but I just got past the halfway mark and I'm ready to call it. 

There honestly isn't much substance to the story. Any conflict that arises is swept away as a non-issue a few pages later, hardly anything significant seems to happen, the writing is overly simplistic, the characters are all underdeveloped and lack any depth, there is an abundance of telling instead of showing and, worst of all, it has one of my most hated tropes - insta-love. 

And I love dragons in fantasy books but this is just...not it. Like some other reviewers have mentioned, it's like a book about training dogs but they're being called dragons.