Books like Flight of the Dragon Kyn Dragon Chronicles, #2)

This book depressed the hell out of me as a kid. I couldn't really enjoy it because I couldn't like the main character, Kara. She's hired by a cruel king to use her ability to mentally summon birds in order to summon a dragon so he can kill it. I can't remember whether he forcibly summoned her, but when she stands before him at court she decides to pretend she doesn't have the gift. At least one person guffaws at her mocking her supposed gift, which causes others to doubt her, which gives her an out. She could then just pretend to not be able to do it an would be off the hook, but because some smug jerk wounded her pride she mentally summons a whole flock of birds to to herself so she can smirk at the non-believer. As a result, she's drafted into summoning the dragon.She then stands before a canyon and tries to mentally summon a dragon for the king, but eventually realizes dragons are more intelligent than birds, and thus they don't respond to being called "dragon," but must be summoned by name. She wracks her brain to remember the name of the dragon that nursed her back to health with dragon milk when her parents abandoned her in a cave as a little kid, which gave her this gift in the first place. When she finally remembers the name of the dragon, she summons her. The dragon appears for her, the little human girl she had nursed as a baby; and the king's men killed her.I was SO MAD at Kara, I couldn't stand it. She knowingly summoned the dragon that saved her life as a little kid TO HER DEATH. I couldn't root for her or care what happened to her after that. At some point I guess she falls into a mountain cave, and finds herself in a den of dragons that all (understandably) hate her and refuse to forgive her for having Flaga killed. And, yeah, I agreed with them 100%. Since it's Kara's POV, we're supposed to sympathize with her and her guilt and her desire to make things right. All I could think was I agreed with the dragons; she didn't DESERVE forgiveness.I'm sorry. I know most characters are supposed to be "flawed," and "make mistakes," and "suffer consequences." I get that. But her utter stupidity in giving away the fact that she can summon birds to the king when he tries to draft her to help him kill a dragon JUST because someone wounded her pride, and then knowingly summoning the dragon that saved her life as a little kid when she KNOWS the king's men are standing right there ready to kill her... I'm sorry. I don't care for or sympathize with her in the least.I know she winds up saving the dragons at the end, and one of them at least comes around to her (after she uses her hands to remove an arrow that pierces him), but I just can't care. This book is not for me.If you like protagonists who aren't utter morons who get their early childhood rescuers killed, this isn't the book for you. If you don't mind that, knock yourself out.