Okay the one I'm reading now is by Mercedes Lackey (I kind of like that name, Mercedes, not that I'd want it, but it makes a woman sound exotic while not too incomprehensible) called Alta. It's ... well I don't know if it's a series but it continues the story in Joust which was about a slave who becomes a "dragon boy" and then steals his own dragon egg, hatches it, raises it and then escapes his captivity. Very well written.

So it seems that I'm alternating between these crap Dune novels which (for some reason) I feel compelled to read and good books.