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I was raised for battle. And as the first daughter of a warrior family, I’ve earned my reputation the hard way. Yet now I fight alongside uncivilized male Northland dragons who think a female is only good for breeding and waiting back home in the cave. But it’s the foolish and foolhardy who would try to stop me, Rhona the Fearless, from doing what I do best – destroying the enemies of my kind. So the smartest thing wily barbarian Vigholf the Abhorrent can do for me is stay out of my way as we risk all on a deadly mission in enemy territory. I don’t care if he’s fascinated by me, even though he is as attractive as he is resourceful. He’s having far too much fun putting me in difficult situations and testing my sense of duty to the limit. And I’m going to enjoy challenging his insufferable confidence, outwitting his schemes, and making him surrender in the wildest ways…
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I admit, I couldn’t remember exactly who Vigholf was at the start, (this world is pretty complex, very fun, but there are dragons everywhere to keep track of!) – but as soon as a reference was made to Annwyl cutting the long warrior hair off a dragon and having it attached to her helmet – Vigholf was the unlucky warrior who received this hair cut in the previous book. There are so many different players in this world, it’s little crazy moments like that, that once they get recalled it instantly puts you back into their world and back on familiar ground with everyone. Surprisingly, the main romance in this newest installment was fairly straight forward, and dare I say the most “normal” of all the relationships so far. Vigholf has known and worked by Rhona for years, but only recently he’s made his intentions toward her known, at least to her. He’s already warned off all the dragons from her. What’s great about Vigholf is he’s sort of adorably clueless when it comes to Rhona. Put him on a war field or preparing for battle and there’s no one else you’d want by your side, but dealing with his feelings for Rhona is too much for him to handle at times and Rhona doesn’t make it easy, in a good way.
Rhona is a solider and has no desire to rise any higher in rank, which annoys her mom, a commanding officer herself. She wants all her daughters to be Dragonwarriors and this just isn’t Rhona. Instead, Rhona was the one who raised her siblings when her mother went off to fight battle after battle, and while Rhona raised her sisters to be the next Dragonwarriors, she’d be just as happy to follow in her father’s footsteps, being an amazing Master Blacksmith. This is a female who’s strong, she follows orders because that’s what someone in her position does, but she’s really just trying to figure out what she wants to do, and Vigholf helps her out with that decision by trying to court her (in his own way) as they’re in the middle of multiple wars and chaos. Vigholf is pretty charming as he tries to understand Rhona better and his back and forth with her is always hilarious:
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“Your concern for my well-being overwhelms me, Sergeant.”
“You shouldn’t have been following me, Commander.”
“Who said I was?”
“Common sense?”
“I don’t know who that is,” he muttered, turning away and looking over the blacksmith’s work area.
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Rhona and Vigholf’s story takes them from traveling with Ren and Keita back to the home base where the young twins and Rhian are in danger, to finding Annwyl, who took off on her own with only Izzy and Brannie. She’s in search of a crazy, powerful recluse King that she needs to convince to ally with her in a huge battle that’s starting to take place between numerous dragon clans. During their travels, Rhona doesn’t quite know what to make of Vigholf’s actions when he tries to make his intentions known, literally freezing up when he kisses her for the first time, but when she realizes that he truly does want her, she slowly comes around and they have a really sweet romance – banter and all.
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“So” – Vigholf faced her – “would you like to have dinner tonight with me and my mother?”
“No.”
He scowled. “Why not?”
“Well, first off I’m having dinner with my father, and second…no.”
“You don’t like my mother,” he accused.
“I don’t know your mother.”
“And you never will…unless you have dinner with us.” His grin was wide…and a tad ridiculous-in an annoyingly adorable way. “Bring your father.”
“You’re getting stranger every day, I just want to make that clear.”
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There are so many side stories happening all at once. First off, this book takes place years after the last book, some of the mates haven’t seen each other in 3 years, some in 5 and while I understand that it’s the way things are during times of war in this series, it’s still hard to imagine. So there’s Annwyl, still crazy as ever, taking heads and asking questions later on her quest to end the war and get home to her twins. There’s the triangle of Eibhear/Izzy/Celyn that’s still going strong. Eibhear refuses to acknowledge any feelings he has for Izzy and when death hits close to Eibhear, he goes from boy to man in a split second and he’s in a place at the end of book of being completely hopeless and unfeeling. There are small updates on all the past characters, including one of my favorite couples, Morfyd and Brastias, and most important is the new information we get about The Three: Fearghus and Annwyl’s twins and Rhian – Briec and Talaith’s daughter. They have some amazing abilities, most of which the adults know nothing about and it will continue to be interesting to see just what these three will be capable of in the future…
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|4.5 stars: best in the series and one of my favorite new PNR releases this year,
I couldn’t put this book down–great mix of action, humor, romance and suspense. I liked the main characters and how their relationship developed over the first half of the book. They didn’t immediately jump into bed together. It was good seeing the characters from the earlier books–the way the author brought them back into this book was very well handled. (Except for Keita, who continues to get on my nerves. She wasn’t in this one a lot–thank goodness.) There’s a lot of violence in this book, but I like a good fight scene so that’s ok by me. The war scenes at the end were very suspenseful and full of action. I was on the edge of my seat. The dialogue was well written, often funny, and believable. Up until now book 3 has been my favorite (Gwenvael & Dagmar were hilarious!), but this was even better. Aiken really brought her ‘A’ game with The Dragon Who Loved Me. Can’t wait for the next one!
If you haven’t read this series, it’s one of the better fantasy romance/PNR series about dragon shapeshifters. Best to read the books in order, since each story builds on the earlier ones and characters show up in later books. The books tend to have a lot of action/violence, bawdy humor and a nice amount romance. The sex scenes are typical for what you find in mainstream romance books–steamy but not over the top.
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