4.5 stars


Rhona the Fearless is a dragoness and a soldier that follows orders without question. She takes her responsibilities seriously and has little time for fools who think women have no place on the battlefield like Vigholf the Abhorrent. When she's given orders that will take her behind enemy lines, Vigholf is right by her side and together they'll travel into a land of dangerous wingless dragons, a blood thirsty princess and wild horses with attitude so they can get back their crazed queen.

Rhona is cousin to the royal siblings Keita, Eibhear, Fearghus, Briec and Gwenvael, all of which we've met in earlier books. She comes from a family where all want to be dragonwarriors, but not Rhona. She's fine with just being a soldier and has dreams of doing other things with her life that don't involve fighting in one war after then next. Rhona manages to be a strong, skilled fighter while also being caring. Can't say that about many of the women in her family and I was thrilled to see she wasn't just another battle junkie like the others.

Vigholf is a Lightening dragon from the north. His kind once captured dragoness from the south and forced them to be their mates. That is no longer the practice but Vigholf still lives with that hanging over his head. It doesn't help the barbarian label his kind are given when he says women have no place on a battlefield, not that it stops Rhona and her aunts/sisters/cousins from being there anyways. Vighold has wanted Rhona since the first time he saw her and he's smart enough to know that he'll have to start fighting along side her and no against her if he hopes to make her his. It's like a game of cat and mouse between Vigholf and Rhona and once he finally has her, sparks fly. The sex was hot but the mutual respect and love they end up having for each other is what made them a great pair.

War has been raging for 5 years against the cruel Iron dragons who intend rule over all humans and dragons. All main characters from previous books are back and have a role to play. There is a lot of jumping around between all sides of the war but it never felt confusing or overwhelming. Whether the focus was on Rhona and Vigholf behind enemy lines, with Briec, Fearghus and Ragner fighting the Irons at the front line or back in the south with Dagmar and Talaith who are helping to keep Annywl's twins safe, everything flowed together nicely and felt relevant to the story and series.

The Dragon Who Loved Me is the 5th book in G.A. Aiken's Dragon Kin series and my favorite installment. Unlike the last couple books, it was fast paced and had me hooked from the beginning. Vigholf and Rhona were great leads. All my favorite characters were present and just as funny and crude as ever. This series is so unapologetic, violent and absolutely hilarious and has quickly become a PNR favorite of mine.
-Stephanie




Rhona, always the good soldier following orders never asking questions; so when her cousin Keita, asked her to come escort her back home her answer was of course yes. Since Rhona is not in the habit of asking question she had no idea what this task was actually going to cost her. She thought this would be a simple take, drop and return mission, but the gods had other plans for this group of soldiers.
During one of his many stalker moments when Vigholf was following Rhona, he found out that she was being sent to escort his brother’s mate back to the southland, so of course he got himself somehow involved and sent to accompany them. This didn't bother him one bit because there was something about this dragoness that set his tail on fire and he'd follow her any ware.

This stubborn, rude, self centered lightning dragon was to accompany them; Rhona couldn’t deny her attraction to him even if he annoyed her to no end most of the time. Rhona knew the reputation of all the northland dragons, what with their lack of women dragons the lightning men would settle for any dragoness. Only problem with that is Rhona didn't want to just be anyone she wanted to be someone special. So even though she was attracted to the purple haired northerner she needed keep her distance, of only he'd leave her alone.

I loved this whole series. Each character is unique and has their own personality and mannerisms. Even when a character has had their own book you still see a lot of them in the subsequent books thereafter. You can't help but fall in love with each member of these clans

The whole dragon kin world is soo imaginative. The world has the middle ages for a back drop but they speak with more modern curse words but it seems to work well together.

There is plenty of action, fighting and blood. If you want a good beheading I'm sure one of the dragon kin will lop one off for you.

The whole story of this book and each previous book has plenty of comedy, romance, sex, and war. Really you can't go wrong sexy warrior dragons. Yummy!
-Athenna