Helpful Score: 4
I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand the author creates a meticulous and believable world and I do believe in the love between the main protagonists. The writing is good enough to keep you reading without any of those glaring errors like poor editing or characterization. On the other hand, the author makes what amounts to me as the cardinal sin in the romance genre--she grants more pages to the heroine's sexual escapades with other men. This includes outright rape, subjugation, and questionable consent. I don't want to read about any of that! When I pick up a romance novel I'm not interested in reading about the in depth sexual slavery of the heroine. I don't need the romance to be fluffy, but I'd like to come away from the story feeling happy, not somewhat creeped out. And this story had many creepy elements (and not in the Halloween-cool sense, but in the pedophile-next-door kind of way).
So 3 stars from me. The writing is good and the fantasy plotline interesting. What little romance there is in the story is written poignantly. I just hated the three quarters of the novel that is gratuitously permeated with the sexual depravity, slavery, and other vices of the human condition.
So 3 stars from me. The writing is good and the fantasy plotline interesting. What little romance there is in the story is written poignantly. I just hated the three quarters of the novel that is gratuitously permeated with the sexual depravity, slavery, and other vices of the human condition.
I have Mixed feelings about this book. The writing is good and keeps you reading
The ideas about the detailed relation ship of dragon-human is good. BUT the book has a lot of violence-sex that does not belong here (Scify-Romance) in such detail. Also it gets a little tiering with the heroine swinging like pendulum clock: love him, hate him, love him, hate him...
ALERT SPOILERS:
The dragonmaid loves Cordian the being/hates dragon the beast and it takes her the whole book to realize the 2 are the same locked in a body of a the man who tormented them both, it is like picking a dasy: I love you, I hate you, I love you I hate you, I ...
And there is the out of place banking system Sabina invented for the country but under close up it is her unborn daughter that comes up with it... but though the book constantly reminds the reader of it it has nothing to do with the plot.
In the mean time there is a political subplot for power. The 2 subjeated now free lands try to invade Rowana. One captures the new queens gold dragon, (who turns out to be Sabina's missing daughter, that 'blinked out' at birth to apear somwhere as a dragon egg) and the other leader Ben-Yan captures the dragon in human body: Cordian and eventualy goes mad from drinking his blood. All 3 armies meet in the magic infused 'clutching' caves, and since they can't F*** (mating-lust) they go bloodlust-mad and everyone slaughters everyone. Hero and heroin escape to magical, hidden island and they lived happilly ever after.
The ideas about the detailed relation ship of dragon-human is good. BUT the book has a lot of violence-sex that does not belong here (Scify-Romance) in such detail. Also it gets a little tiering with the heroine swinging like pendulum clock: love him, hate him, love him, hate him...
ALERT SPOILERS:
The dragonmaid loves Cordian the being/hates dragon the beast and it takes her the whole book to realize the 2 are the same locked in a body of a the man who tormented them both, it is like picking a dasy: I love you, I hate you, I love you I hate you, I ...
And there is the out of place banking system Sabina invented for the country but under close up it is her unborn daughter that comes up with it... but though the book constantly reminds the reader of it it has nothing to do with the plot.
In the mean time there is a political subplot for power. The 2 subjeated now free lands try to invade Rowana. One captures the new queens gold dragon, (who turns out to be Sabina's missing daughter, that 'blinked out' at birth to apear somwhere as a dragon egg) and the other leader Ben-Yan captures the dragon in human body: Cordian and eventualy goes mad from drinking his blood. All 3 armies meet in the magic infused 'clutching' caves, and since they can't F*** (mating-lust) they go bloodlust-mad and everyone slaughters everyone. Hero and heroin escape to magical, hidden island and they lived happilly ever after.
