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I really enjoyed this book and I can't believe I waited this long to read it.
Julius isn't exactly the typical dragon, a society which you get to know quite well in the book. They're bloodthirsty, and greedy, and calculating and cold. And have absolutely no regard for humans whatsoever. I loved how this was portrayed, I loved how the dragons weren't just another whitewashed shifter like werewolves but actually something ancient and exotic and foreign.
Julius however, is none of these things. He's the smallest of his clan, and has spent most of his life playing video games and trying to avoid his siblings (which there are many). So what happens when his mother seals his dragon from him, making him unable to shift, and throws him out into DFZ with the impossible goal of: prove to me you're worthy of being a dragon or I'ma eat you?
Well, there's plenty of action in the book. Plenty of ass kicking too, it's just not Julius whose doing said asskicking which is.. very rare in an UF. He's not exactly powerless, he's faster and more sturdier than a human, and he's got a bunch of magic in him (dragons being magical beings after all). He's just not very good at said magic.
He stumbles over Marci, who IS a kick ass mage. But even here it's underlined pretty heavily that there'd be nothing she can really do against a "real" dragon. (Tho she saves Julius a few times).
It's a popcorn read, like most urban fantasy, the uniqueness being there's no murder to solve the whole plot of the book is to find a missing dragon (read running away from home), and bring her back to her sister. It just so happens that other stuff gets into the way, this involves sewer monsters, a gangster with a lot of guns on his payroll and Seers trying to meddle with the future. Oh, and there's a Death Cat who eats souls?
Either way, it was a fun read with plenty of actions and things going wrong and I look forward to their next adventures (and hopefully romance, where there were none in the first book there were just enough hints that it could happen that made me frustrated at stupid dragons and their apparent low selfesteem)
Julius isn't exactly the typical dragon, a society which you get to know quite well in the book. They're bloodthirsty, and greedy, and calculating and cold. And have absolutely no regard for humans whatsoever. I loved how this was portrayed, I loved how the dragons weren't just another whitewashed shifter like werewolves but actually something ancient and exotic and foreign.
Julius however, is none of these things. He's the smallest of his clan, and has spent most of his life playing video games and trying to avoid his siblings (which there are many). So what happens when his mother seals his dragon from him, making him unable to shift, and throws him out into DFZ with the impossible goal of: prove to me you're worthy of being a dragon or I'ma eat you?
Well, there's plenty of action in the book. Plenty of ass kicking too, it's just not Julius whose doing said asskicking which is.. very rare in an UF. He's not exactly powerless, he's faster and more sturdier than a human, and he's got a bunch of magic in him (dragons being magical beings after all). He's just not very good at said magic.
He stumbles over Marci, who IS a kick ass mage. But even here it's underlined pretty heavily that there'd be nothing she can really do against a "real" dragon. (Tho she saves Julius a few times).
It's a popcorn read, like most urban fantasy, the uniqueness being there's no murder to solve the whole plot of the book is to find a missing dragon (read running away from home), and bring her back to her sister. It just so happens that other stuff gets into the way, this involves sewer monsters, a gangster with a lot of guns on his payroll and Seers trying to meddle with the future. Oh, and there's a Death Cat who eats souls?
Either way, it was a fun read with plenty of actions and things going wrong and I look forward to their next adventures (and hopefully romance, where there were none in the first book there were just enough hints that it could happen that made me frustrated at stupid dragons and their apparent low selfesteem)
There are some pretty big issues with this book, despite me rating it 5 stars.
The biggest one, is despite the page count of almost 700 pages. The second half of this book felt rushed. It was as if the author had a story in her mind, but desperately didn't want to turn it into a series so she just.. kept skipping.
Some of this time jumping isn't that big of a deal, but some of the skips are.. serious. For example the FMC goes from being on the verge of throwing off her 2nd mate out of the relationship because he's keeping stuff from her, and no matter how much she tells him he has to tell her stuff he doesn't. It felt serious, like he was being real stubborn. And then.. skip. And they're all lovey dovey with no information, no event, no nothing. So did he relent? did he change? or did she just accept that this man who despite would die for her is just not going to trust her capable of handling whatever information hes keeping from her?
Same with the third, who was my favorite of them all, he barely got any screen time. And here you went from him not knowing where his spot is, and she having no feelings for him, to suddenly all happily having threesomes and shit.
And that really sucks, but it's still one of the better reverse harems I've read. But I desperately wish it was a 3-book series where the 2nd and 3rd dude got a lot more screentime.
So what is good? Well the book made me laugh out loud multiple times, which is always a big win. There is also a lot of story here. There are multiple story arcs (which would have been perfect for a series, really!). You have the prison planet, the escape from the prison planet, settling on an alien planet, getting to know said alien culture and world, there is pirates and betrayal and big alien kings. There is getting rescued, and being the rescuee
I also read the entire thing in one evening and cursed myself when I was awake at 6AM. So.. I loved it.
The biggest one, is despite the page count of almost 700 pages. The second half of this book felt rushed. It was as if the author had a story in her mind, but desperately didn't want to turn it into a series so she just.. kept skipping.
Some of this time jumping isn't that big of a deal, but some of the skips are.. serious. For example the FMC goes from being on the verge of throwing off her 2nd mate out of the relationship because he's keeping stuff from her, and no matter how much she tells him he has to tell her stuff he doesn't. It felt serious, like he was being real stubborn. And then.. skip. And they're all lovey dovey with no information, no event, no nothing. So did he relent? did he change? or did she just accept that this man who despite would die for her is just not going to trust her capable of handling whatever information hes keeping from her?
Same with the third, who was my favorite of them all, he barely got any screen time. And here you went from him not knowing where his spot is, and she having no feelings for him, to suddenly all happily having threesomes and shit.
And that really sucks, but it's still one of the better reverse harems I've read. But I desperately wish it was a 3-book series where the 2nd and 3rd dude got a lot more screentime.
So what is good? Well the book made me laugh out loud multiple times, which is always a big win. There is also a lot of story here. There are multiple story arcs (which would have been perfect for a series, really!). You have the prison planet, the escape from the prison planet, settling on an alien planet, getting to know said alien culture and world, there is pirates and betrayal and big alien kings. There is getting rescued, and being the rescuee
I also read the entire thing in one evening and cursed myself when I was awake at 6AM. So.. I loved it.
