Dragonflight
The style is rough and there's something misogynistic and just plain mean-spirited at it's core. It would be easy to blame both on the age of the book, but I've read older books that were better in both regards. Lessa, hardened by her upbringing, suffers heavily from Not-Like-Other-Girls Syndrome, in that both she and the story at large see her as "better" than other women, because she is "useful" and doesn't react like the other women she encounters -- screaming, fainting, hysteria, etc. Women, keeping in mind, who were probably raised in sheltered conditions and would have nothing to base their reactions on.
Jora, the queen who preceded Lessa, is described as fat, lazy and ineffective, and besides that description being misogynistic in itself, I cannot blame this woman becoming sedentary. I don't know if the author ever tries to tell this woman's story in a later book, but almost all of the men at the Weyr sound like over-critical assholes, and if F'lar, who is supposedly the best of them, is abusive, god knows what the others are like behind closed doors. I wouldn't have the motivation to do better in this situation either.
Notably, it's quick to praise many male characters, even random secondary and tertiary ones who quite suddenly pop out of the woodwork, or at the very least leave them free of the criticism it subjects nearly every woman too.
Misogyny aside, the book is long-winded, leaning hard towards dialogue and shrinking away from action.
Discussion between characters is heavy -- some things are discussed absolutely to death -- and action sparse. Of course, it's almost always the men doing all the discussing.
Additionally, at first I was disappointed at the time skip between when the queen dragon impressed on Lessa and when the dragon is ready to mate. I thought it would be interesting to see her bond and learn to take care of the dragon. But now I see that it would probably be another opportunity to subject her to more of F'lar's abusive.