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baldwinme40's review
2.0
this wasn't a romance, this was a mediocre fantasy novel with 2.5 smutty scenes and no chemistry. what fun is that???
melindavan's review
4.0
Dragonborn was handed to me by Jade Lee herself at DragonCon, and I'm so glad she did! This romantic fantasy was a fun, guilty pleasure for the plane ride home. Hot, spicy love scenes, a fantasy plot centered on dragons...what's not to like! If you like fantasy, and dragons, and sex...you'll like this.
The main characters have chemistry, and the dragons themselves are intelligent and have an agenda all their own. I can't wait to learn more about them and their society and hidden agendas. And the dragon sex...yeah. guilty pleasure :-).
The main characters have chemistry, and the dragons themselves are intelligent and have an agenda all their own. I can't wait to learn more about them and their society and hidden agendas. And the dragon sex...yeah. guilty pleasure :-).
edgyirishcupcake's review
1.0
I love books that take place in magical lands and are completely fantastical. This book however I couldn't wait for it to end. The idea of the dragons and the eggs and the bonding/incubation I thought was very cool. On the other hand all the character interactions were immature and cheap. None of the characters had any depth, and the romance side of the story was lacking. Sex and romance are not the same thing. It almost seemed to me that the author isn't comfortable with the sex aspect of this book either. The whole belly-horned idea was very juvenile in my opinion. The abilities of those who were incubating eggs (dragon speed, strength and hearing) were inconsistent and that was irritating too. Natiya was supposed to have these abilities and yet she seemed to always be surprised and having people sneak up on her whether they were normal or dragon born themselves. I didn't feel a great bond with any of the characters and I think there was nothing more than surface stories to any one of them. So glad this book is finally over, and will not be continuing with the rest of the series. Very glad this book was given to me and that I didn't waste money in it.
nelsonseye's review
2.0
I liked the concept of Dragonborn, but I struggled with the execution. The world was interesting and I really liked the idea of the dragon-human bonding. I found Natiya frustrating as a character at times (she seemed inconsistent/easily manipulated when she hadn't been so before) and I had trouble following the plot/path of the story after There was a lot of time spent on some moments, and not enough spent on others, and I wasn't entirely certain what was happening or why
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she was captured by Dag Racho..equestrianerd's review
1.0
I got this from the fantasy section of the library, so was expecting it to be primarily fantasy with a bit of romance thrown in (similar to Joanne Bertin's The Last Dragonlord, which I really enjoyed). This book did not even come close.
The story was ok (especially compared to some romances I've read, at least this had more going on than banal conversation/pseudo-arguments between the hero and heroine that are meaningless because you know they're going to get together eventually, either via powerlessness over their overwhelming feelings/destiny or a long-term miscommunication/misunderstanding finally being dealt with).
The characters were pretty one-dimensional. Natiya was naive, curious, intelligent/well-read (yet also fairly ignorant), and seemed to have no personality flaws. Kiril was judgemental, prejudiced, and remarkably unobservant (for someone who hunts dragons as a profession and masterfully survived growing up at court).
The ending also felt very rushed/forced. They spent all this time going on about how bonded a dragonborn and its dragon would be, and then the Queen is a very minor character who says maybe 10 things. (The one part I found interesting was that dragons were scientific/logical, and that didn't get explored at all.) There's no real conclusion to the story, either, other than "oh well, Rashad/Copper are dead, maybe Natiya/Kiril will live happily ever after/maybe not, maybe Natiya is The Perfect Human but who knows what that means, and never mind about all those other dragons that just showed up and disappeared instantaneously. The end."
I'm glad I picked this up at the library rather than buying it, but I kind of regret spending the time to read it all the way through (I kept hoping it would develop into something more, and it never did; if anything the writing/story got worse as the book concluded.)
The story was ok (especially compared to some romances I've read, at least this had more going on than banal conversation/pseudo-arguments between the hero and heroine that are meaningless because you know they're going to get together eventually, either via powerlessness over their overwhelming feelings/destiny or a long-term miscommunication/misunderstanding finally being dealt with).
The characters were pretty one-dimensional. Natiya was naive, curious, intelligent/well-read (yet also fairly ignorant), and seemed to have no personality flaws. Kiril was judgemental, prejudiced, and remarkably unobservant (for someone who hunts dragons as a profession and masterfully survived growing up at court).
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It also bugged me in the middle when Natiya's trying to get Pentold's help she keeps going on about how everything was "so long ago", including the marriage proposal between them. Unless some time-travel's going on, the entire book spans a few weeks, maybe months, yet she's acting like it's been decades since she left the tavern/her old life. I'm guessing it was perhaps years since she'd seen Pentold last, but even so, she's not that old so she couldn't have been working as a dancer for that long.The ending also felt very rushed/forced. They spent all this time going on about how bonded a dragonborn and its dragon would be, and then the Queen is a very minor character who says maybe 10 things. (The one part I found interesting was that dragons were scientific/logical, and that didn't get explored at all.) There's no real conclusion to the story, either, other than "oh well, Rashad/Copper are dead, maybe Natiya/Kiril will live happily ever after/maybe not, maybe Natiya is The Perfect Human but who knows what that means, and never mind about all those other dragons that just showed up and disappeared instantaneously. The end."
I'm glad I picked this up at the library rather than buying it, but I kind of regret spending the time to read it all the way through (I kept hoping it would develop into something more, and it never did; if anything the writing/story got worse as the book concluded.)
laurla's review
"he was no more than a belly-horned man with no brain beyond that which led his lust."
- never heard it called a belly horn before, hehehe.
- never heard it called a belly horn before, hehehe.
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