Review: Dragon Blues by Edie Ramer
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2012
Dragons live forever but drug addicted girls do not. Not unless they get help.When a couple enters his business Noah knows something is wrong. The man has trouble written all over him and the girl, well she needs to be rescued from herself and her brutish companion and all too obvious drug addiction.Noah isn't your usual business owner. Noah is ancient and more importantly Noah is a dragon. Not that you would know it to look at him. He looks like any other person you would meet. Maybe something around the eyes but other than that who would know. After the botched robbery attempt "Beauty" comes back to Noah to be rescued from her downtrodden life. Living alone with just his cat and sax for company Noah needs help and he calls upon the sister of "Beauty" to take responsibility.Lila is intelligent, independent and strong willed. After many attempts to help her younger sister she has given up on rehabs and clinics. Reluctantly, after much persuasion, she travels across the country to take up the challenge once again. Her lack of trust in Noah profoundly influences the course of the story to come.Forced to work together when Beauty once again disappears into the underbelly of society, Lila finds herself drawn inexplicitly to the man and the mystery which is Noah. They begin to fall in love.With mobsters, monsters, romance, kidnapping, escapes and rescues the story unfolds from a softly languorous beginning to an all out sprint. It builds the romantic tension with ease and subtly draws us into the twists and turns of the plot. The author shows a good knowledge of her craft easing the story into our consciousness with nuance and skill. I recommend this book highly.Karen Bryant Doering