I was at Borders yesterday and, after reading this post, picked up Dragonsblood out of sheer curiousity. I just read the last few pages, but it seemed pathetically unoriginal and unemotional. And there seemed to me to be a major plot hole in the ending, though maybe that would have been fixed had I read more of it... Only, I have no interest in doing so.
Sad
Disappointing, on the whole.