Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George is the first book in the series that tells the story of the girl Creel. It's told in first person by Creel herself and starts out with Creel saying she is going to be sacrificed to a dragon. Her parents died from the fever, and she's been living with her aunt and uncle who are very poor. Her aunt comes up with the perfect solution for what to do with the girl: let her get captured by a dragon and talk a knight into rescuing her, who will then have to marry her. So Creel lets herself get captured by the dragon, but she doesn't want to marry the knight who's coming to rescue her. She wants to go to the capital city and get a job sewing. That will solve her aunt's problem of caring for her, and she gets to do what she wants. So Creel talks the dragon into letting her go and into giving her something from it's hoard. What she chooses is a pair of slippers. The dragon is shocked at her choice and doesn't want her to take them, but he had promised her she could have whatever she wanted, so he lets her take them.
Creel is pleased with her new slippers and continues on her journey to the capital city where she hopes to find work sewing. When the slippers start making her feet itch, and a spoiled princess wants her slippers, Creel wonders if the slippers are worth keeping. But deep down inside, she knows that if anyone else gets their hands on the slippers, something terrible will happen. As Creel tries to figure out the secret of the slippers, she makes some new friends and some enemies, some of them from unexpected places.
This was a really good read with some very surprising things right at the end of the story that make the reader want to read the next book in the series.
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