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D.A.R.E. Project #1
Ruby D.A.R.E.
Born of two dragons but raised in a lab, Ruby has lived a life of quiet regulation, waiting until the project proposed decades earlier can be started. When Dimensional Arrest, Retrieval and Extraction gets underway, her innate ability to jump dimensions puts her on the front lines with her sisters, retrieving people from earth whose presence is tearing their home world apart. Each assignment takes Ruby to another world to retrieve scholars, criminals, researchers, and escapees. The freedom she feels on the new worlds is cruelly taken away when she has to return to earth over and over again.Meeting one of her own kind is a shock, but his determination to help her gain her freedom is even more of a stunning revelation. He offers her a life without walls, in the sun, and wind in her hair. What dragon could resist?
92 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 2011
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May 7, 2013
Dragons, a kick ass female lead and trans-dimensional travel, what more can a geeky sci-fi/fantasy girl need in a story? Ms. Xander is a new to me author. This series - Project DARE is awesome. I enjoyed it a lot. This is the first in the series with Ruby, the first sister of twenty to find her mate.
The world building in here is fun. We learn just enough to get a good idea how things work. It's not a complicated world. The frame work is easy to understand so as not to bog a reader down. The characters are engaging. Ruby is designed to be a character who doesn't quite understand the outside world. It is clear she is a product of her upbringing yet she succeeds outside just fine.
Ruby is the first sister to finally meet someone of her own kind. It's a fast mating and leads well into the next story. After reading this one, I confess, I had to read all the others in this series. I'm hooked. Recommended for fantasy readers who love dragons.
The world building in here is fun. We learn just enough to get a good idea how things work. It's not a complicated world. The frame work is easy to understand so as not to bog a reader down. The characters are engaging. Ruby is designed to be a character who doesn't quite understand the outside world. It is clear she is a product of her upbringing yet she succeeds outside just fine.
Ruby is the first sister to finally meet someone of her own kind. It's a fast mating and leads well into the next story. After reading this one, I confess, I had to read all the others in this series. I'm hooked. Recommended for fantasy readers who love dragons.
December 16, 2023
This was quite OK. The story is nice, and it has the makings of something better, it just hasn't been fleshed out very well. We get a case of instalove and everything working out. But take the bare bones of the book, and I think someone could make something good out of it.
April 1, 2011
She’s a dragon and can slip through dimensions. All she really wants is her freedom…
These authors have created an interesting character. Ruby has a human form that can use her dragon skills. She’s been raised in a restricted environment but has not lost her sense of independence. She and her sisters are the only beings that can stop “Dimensional Arrest, Retrieval and Extraction.” The humans who travelled to other planets in other dimensions must be retrieved. Just like the earthquake in Japan moved their coastline eight feet, travel between dimensions is causing movement and eminent disaster is approaching.
Ms. Xander and Ms. Grace have made Ruby aloof, strong, and determined to be free. The other dimensions are interesting worlds that could very well exist. The humans in the story are political prisoners, scientists, and other adventurers. They have regular human foibles, but Ruby grabbed my attention and held it. She wants so badly to just be herself and not be a slave to the humans that you empathize with her and wish you could help.
The authors add a bit of subterfuge to make the story more interesting; it’s all plausible and makes sense. The story has a good flow. The only thing that could have made it better would be a bit more of the story. It read well, but I could have used a bit more information about the controlling factions of Ruby’s facility that houses her sisters and how her new life turned out. However, I may just be greedy. The story was well told and I enjoyed reading it. And there will be more in this series. After all, Ruby is one of 20 sisters…
Originally posted at http://longandshortreviews.blogspot.c...
These authors have created an interesting character. Ruby has a human form that can use her dragon skills. She’s been raised in a restricted environment but has not lost her sense of independence. She and her sisters are the only beings that can stop “Dimensional Arrest, Retrieval and Extraction.” The humans who travelled to other planets in other dimensions must be retrieved. Just like the earthquake in Japan moved their coastline eight feet, travel between dimensions is causing movement and eminent disaster is approaching.
Ms. Xander and Ms. Grace have made Ruby aloof, strong, and determined to be free. The other dimensions are interesting worlds that could very well exist. The humans in the story are political prisoners, scientists, and other adventurers. They have regular human foibles, but Ruby grabbed my attention and held it. She wants so badly to just be herself and not be a slave to the humans that you empathize with her and wish you could help.
The authors add a bit of subterfuge to make the story more interesting; it’s all plausible and makes sense. The story has a good flow. The only thing that could have made it better would be a bit more of the story. It read well, but I could have used a bit more information about the controlling factions of Ruby’s facility that houses her sisters and how her new life turned out. However, I may just be greedy. The story was well told and I enjoyed reading it. And there will be more in this series. After all, Ruby is one of 20 sisters…
Originally posted at http://longandshortreviews.blogspot.c...
December 22, 2011
Another quick short story that was enjoyable enough to pass the time. Ruby and her 19 sisters are kept in a science laboratory and raised without any real love and emotion. Ruby is part of the Dimensional Arrest, Retrieval and Extraction team (D.A.R.E) and is finally ready to be sent out on assignments to retrieve the humans sent out of her own world in order to repair the dimensional rifts being caused by their departures. Ruby and her sisters are able to create portals between dimensions without causing any problems which is why they are all so important to the governmental lab.
She has a couple of tricky assignments at first but on her third one she meets a male dragon. Ruby is a dragon swan - a female dragon shapeshifter who cannot shape shift, but she has the markings of a dragon and this male instantly recognises her for what she is. Together they hatch a plan to free her from the lab and immediately Ruby agrees. I know she wanted her freedom and all, but why would she instantly trust a man she has just met and leave her sisters behind to run away with him? A bit too much too soon in my opinion, but hey the book was only 65 pages long so what do you expect?!
Not a bad book overall and one day I will probably get the rest of this series - in theory there should be another 19 books to go!
She has a couple of tricky assignments at first but on her third one she meets a male dragon. Ruby is a dragon swan - a female dragon shapeshifter who cannot shape shift, but she has the markings of a dragon and this male instantly recognises her for what she is. Together they hatch a plan to free her from the lab and immediately Ruby agrees. I know she wanted her freedom and all, but why would she instantly trust a man she has just met and leave her sisters behind to run away with him? A bit too much too soon in my opinion, but hey the book was only 65 pages long so what do you expect?!
Not a bad book overall and one day I will probably get the rest of this series - in theory there should be another 19 books to go!
February 24, 2012
Ruby Dare is a short paranormal romance by Tianna Xander. The story has potential, but for a romance short story, it was missing romance. There was nothing compelling between the hero and heroine and he was only introduced at the very end of the story. When he's introduced, he shows interest in her because they're the same species. She show interest by saying she's drawn to him...that's it. I didn't enjoy the story, although the author and story have potential to be something better.
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