Review: Great read about dragons with a smidgen of romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
Myrna was demoted at her job when her boyfriend stole important work documents from her home and virtually disappeared from her life. She's now the assistant to a man who not only hates dragons but can't dragonspeak, which their job is to mediate problems between dragons and humans. So when her ex, Trian, walks into her place of work, she'd like nothing better than to throw him out on his butt. However, she soon finds herself in the middle of a dragon war and must rely on Trian to keep her alive.There wasn't a lot of romance in this story. In fact the majority of it is pretty much urban fantasy with a smidgen of romance at the end. So with that being said, I was a little disappointed that a paranormal romance didn't have much in the way of romance. However, the story itself was highly entertaining and I found myself enjoying it.There is a lot of fighting, a ton of dragon action taking place in the story and quite a bit of suspense. I liked that the author didn't play down the dragons. Instead they took front and center in the story. Their scaly hides were always present. She showed how they viewed humans as no more than slaves and she even wrote a particular disturbing scene with a terrified goat and his last minutes of life before being eaten by a dragon.One of the big shockers in the book did not come as a surprise to me. In fact, from the beginning I knew what it was, and was a little disappointed when it was revealed that everyone made such a big deal about it... and yet no one figured it out. I always hate when I know the big secret before I'm even fully immersed in the book.Regardless of my issues with the book, I did find it entertaining. I liked the suspense and fighting in the book. I like that the author didn't make dragons vegetarians or make them humanized in the eyes of the reader. They are predators and she wrote them as such. This is a good book for someone who is interested in reading an urban fantasy about dragons.