Review: You just keep rockin' my world with these dragons...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
Oh, Mrs. Lopez... you got me. You totally won me over with your Dragons.The other book got dropped a star because I felt Stig wasn't quite Alpha enough for me. I mean, he was hot, but I thought there could have been more 'brutish' behavior for a reclusive dragon shifter.Then Lolita goes and gives me Griffin. We met him, kinda sorta in the first book. I would like a bit more interactions with the supporting cast in previous books, just so we get this rumbly in our tumbly for them in future books. Book one just made me want to snog the living day lights out of Ignacius ( Think that is the spelling) He has one eye, is scarred, is very icy, but has this big ole' marshmallow heart.Ok, enough about that. Let's talk about Vonny and Griffin.Vonny comes off as an ice queen.But you like her anyways because the chick has gumption.Who doesn't like a chick with gumption.After the knights eradicated nearly her whole family, she's been on her own and made a good life for herself. Being successful and kinda lonely, she realizes its time to have a child. But a child that can keep on the family line.So, she does some research and lookie their Griffin has some Naga blood in his family tree. So what does an independent woman do. Why she approaches said hunky dragon shifter, right after he's been sexy rolling around a fighting ring with another sexy dragon shifter and says. "Hey, I need us to hump during our mating cycles so I can get preggers."Now, before you get a judgy on her, hear me out.She wants to go this alone.She wants to be a single mother and be the parent, hers never were to her.But Griffin ain't having none of that.If he's gonna make a baby with the ice queen, he's gonna be a good parent.Now, I gotta give him credit for that. Its commendable.So thus begins the baby making process. This book had more smexy scenes than the first one, but yikes they were yummy.Griffin is more demanding and Alpha than Stig, and Vonny turns out to be this really clever, yet loving woman.Then all hell breaks loose and the dang Knights show up. Lopez gives up more on that back history, she digs deeper into some shady business with the Brotherhood, and totally does a great lead in, into book three. (July Ms. Lopez... really? You're making we me wait until JULY!)Anyways, Vonny has been holding back her Naga (a crazy cool snake like water serpent) with meditation and fasting. Well, when her mate is threatened, Vonny gets shifting and it is so effing OFF THE HOOK!What I think I love most out of this series is that Lolita is allowing the women to be the heroes essentially in the big fight scenes. She's giving them a sense of power. Not just with them being kick butt and acting like amazon warrior princesses. But they are smart, vulnerable, clever, and they can save their men just as well as their men can save them.She truly locked onto what a 'strong female lead is' people think most women are 'strong' because they can beat up boys and shoot a gun and just go balls to the walls. No one stops to think that a strong woman, is a smart woman, and that is what Lolita has done.JULY!!!!!! JULY!!!!!!!! *DIES**I received a copy of this book from Forever (Grand Central Publishing) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*