Dahrose's Reviews > Bring the Heat

Once - early in this series - I considered these books appointment reading - as in I would set aside a day and just wallow in the wonderfulness, not stopping until I was done. Now... meh, not so much. The last few books have been so samie - with interchangeable lead characters and ho-hum plots.
I felt like I had read this book before - even the dialogue exchanges felt all too familiar as if I have read them in previous instalments.
So whilst it was amusing in spots - all the jokes felt kind of old and repetitive.
The plot bounced around - from POV to POV - which meant I kept putting this book down and really wasn't that fussed about picking it up again, since the storyline plodded along in fits and starts - and felt so darn familiar it was far from gripping. All the so-called twists could be seen coming from a mile away and had kind of been done before in a similar manner in earlier books.
So now the romance - well, to be truthful I found it kind of sad. These two were just friends with benefits, and I actually found Brannie kind of hard to like (whereas I've liked her in earlier books). Her nature/responses weren't different from Izzy or some of the Steppes Riders - so she was just an aggravating, aggressive large woman - big deal, been there so many books before this. An Aiden, whom I liked wasn't give much to work with - except as tag along and mediator. So the romance was kind of a fizzle.
One big jarring note - was Branwen and the whole sea-sick /scared of boats things. She's a dragon, can fly away any old time.. so why go down this path? It felt forced and wrong.
It feels to me like there is little new, exciting or even dare I say it, that novel/or funny about this series any longer. (Though points for Keita - she was the only fun character on offer that consistently delivered) The author seems to regurgitating plots/characters/dialogue - in real danger of ditching this series... damn.