It’s good, not great compared to a few others in the series, but not bad. Some very good steam scenes in this one. Loved Trehan, Bettina was a bit mehIt’s good, not great compared to a few others in the series, but not bad. Some very good steam scenes in this one. Loved Trehan, Bettina was a bit meh. Background characters add excellent colour as usual. On to Macrieve now......more
This book didn’t really work for me and I love dragons in PNRs. Some of the reviews I read for it were misleading and there’s so much hype around thisThis book didn’t really work for me and I love dragons in PNRs. Some of the reviews I read for it were misleading and there’s so much hype around this new series that I was just doubly disappointed. I didn’t find anything phenomenal about the characters or the story when all was said and done. It took me a while to get through it and even at the last few pages I didn’t really care what happened.
One of the biggest problems was that the writing tone changes too much throughout the book. The hero, Dragos, has a more formal way of speaking sometimes and then starts talking like Joe Cool and then back again all formal. It reminded me of some of Gena Showalter’s characters (whose books I’ve never had any luck with). It was almost like Harrison was trying to be like JR Ward but just doesn’t have the skill to pull it off. I’d say it’s like the poor man’s BDB. The writing was weak overall despite the interesting world that was set up but if I was interested in reading about new worlds I’d read fantasy novels not paranormal romances. It just seemed like there was too much happening and too many substories taking away from the h/h’s story. Speaking of the h/h, there isn’t enough interaction between them and the heroine, Pia, who’s supposed to be “kick-ass” is a bit of a boob and a wannabe kickass heroine. She'll suddenly start screaming like an idiot at the hero throwing up all this attitude out of the blue for no reason –this is what I mean by weak writing. The characters aren’t consistent in how they speak or behave.
Dragos is a sexy, powerful dragon who starts out as a very interesting character but I didn’t think that the relationship building with Pia was well-developed. They just sort of started jumping on each other and it was “love”. The steam scenes are pretty good but because there wasn’t enough emotional development between the two it sort of lost its punch.
There are a few twists that were interesting but it’s not really enough to have me read book 2. I think you really have to enjoy UF romances to like this one because there’s a lot of so-so UF and just not enough of a good romance. So it’s a mediocre read at best for me. ...more