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Dragonkin #3
Ferret You!
Egan’s a dragon with a plan. After watching his brothers settle with their fire companions, he aches to create a home with his own. Only Mireya is being somewhat… resistant. Okay, she’s said no. Repeatedly. He likes to think she’s just playing hard to get. He hopes.
33 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2009
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Celia Kyle
281 books2,878 followersCelia Kyle would like to rule the world and become a ninja. As a fall-back, she’s working on her writing career and giving readers stories that touch their hearts and *ahem* other places. Visit her online at http://celiakyle.com | http://facebook.com/celiakyle | http://twitter.com/celiakyle | http://pinterest.com/celiakyle
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December 5, 2011
After I read Can't Bear It, I went back to All Romance E-books and picked up a few more titles by this author. I was disappointed by this one. Part of this may be due to the fact that I haven't read the previous two books in the Dragon Kin series (there was absolutely NO backstory given at all), but I'm confident that a lot of it has to do with stylistic decisions.
For example, the heroine is a ferret-shifter. All righty then. However, then she makes references to Ferret Law and whenever a normal person would say F--k, she says 'Ferret.' For a 28 page book, I said 'What the Ferret?' a lot. There was absolutely no explanation given as to why this linguistic pattern was in place. It wasn't like she was referencing a Ferret religious deity. It was clearly a substitute curse word. Also, while a ferret shifter is unique and hasn't really been done before, I feel there should have been some background laid down. My little brother used to own ferrets and the buggers were cute, but smelled. A lot. And their scent glands were removed. So how would this translate to a human woman? One could perhaps suspend belief that the animal half is kept entirely separate from the human half, but Kyle makes reference to the heroine getting her coloring from her ferret half.
Secondly, the hero is apparently a water dragon and I did not pick up on this fact at all until he sweeps the heroine away to his lair which is underwater. The reason I did not get 'water dragon' is because he talked a lot about his 'fire.' Now, people who've read Deborah Cooke's excellent dragon series knows that it's possible for a dragon to breathe fire and still represent the element of water. These dragons, however, do not feel tied to bodies of water. I mean, if you live submerged under an ocean, there's bound to be quite a bit of humidity. I imagine it would be extremely difficult to breathe fire in those conditions and one would think that evolution would have selected out fire-breathing water dragons.
The hero also refers repeatedly to the heroine as his 'Souler.' This is a combination of 'Soul Mate' and 'Lover.' I just...No. I give Kyle credit for trying to put an original spin on a well-used cliche, but 'Souler' just wasn't the way to do it. My brain kept thinking the word was mis-spelled as it bears similarity to solder. There's also that scene in Tangled where Flynn Ryder talks about doing the 'smolder.' If you're going to make up words, make up something that doesn't resemble an existing one or create your own language.
I don't know if Changeling Press has some kind of word count or page limit, but I feel like Kyle could have done much better with a longer story. One with an actual, well-thought-out, plot.
For example, the heroine is a ferret-shifter. All righty then. However, then she makes references to Ferret Law and whenever a normal person would say F--k, she says 'Ferret.' For a 28 page book, I said 'What the Ferret?' a lot. There was absolutely no explanation given as to why this linguistic pattern was in place. It wasn't like she was referencing a Ferret religious deity. It was clearly a substitute curse word. Also, while a ferret shifter is unique and hasn't really been done before, I feel there should have been some background laid down. My little brother used to own ferrets and the buggers were cute, but smelled. A lot. And their scent glands were removed. So how would this translate to a human woman? One could perhaps suspend belief that the animal half is kept entirely separate from the human half, but Kyle makes reference to the heroine getting her coloring from her ferret half.
Secondly, the hero is apparently a water dragon and I did not pick up on this fact at all until he sweeps the heroine away to his lair which is underwater. The reason I did not get 'water dragon' is because he talked a lot about his 'fire.' Now, people who've read Deborah Cooke's excellent dragon series knows that it's possible for a dragon to breathe fire and still represent the element of water. These dragons, however, do not feel tied to bodies of water. I mean, if you live submerged under an ocean, there's bound to be quite a bit of humidity. I imagine it would be extremely difficult to breathe fire in those conditions and one would think that evolution would have selected out fire-breathing water dragons.
The hero also refers repeatedly to the heroine as his 'Souler.' This is a combination of 'Soul Mate' and 'Lover.' I just...No. I give Kyle credit for trying to put an original spin on a well-used cliche, but 'Souler' just wasn't the way to do it. My brain kept thinking the word was mis-spelled as it bears similarity to solder. There's also that scene in Tangled where Flynn Ryder talks about doing the 'smolder.' If you're going to make up words, make up something that doesn't resemble an existing one or create your own language.
I don't know if Changeling Press has some kind of word count or page limit, but I feel like Kyle could have done much better with a longer story. One with an actual, well-thought-out, plot.
July 27, 2015
(Jul) This book was only 30 pages - but was still a total waste of time. It's part of a series where each new mini book (booklet?) is written by someone else. This appears to be Book #3, so I was already starting off in a deficit. Egan is a Water Dragon shifter, although he seems to think a lot about his inner fire (fire - water?). He has been in love with his fated mate for years, a woman named Mireya who is a Ferret Shifter. Now, how on earth can a Ferret give birth to a Dragon baby?! Anyway, at one point at the beginning Egan thinks that he's been trying to date Mireya for 4 years; later it's mentioned that he's been after her for a year. He gets some advise from his two obnoxious brothers and their wives (who I gather starred in the first two books), goes to see Mireya, she once again blows him off (even though she think about how hot he is but how she doesn't want to be bound to him for reasons that aren't really explained) - he leaves, comes back after work, "kidnaps" her, has sex with her in her truck in the parking lot, he transforms into a dragon and she into a ferret, they go to his under water home, they have sex again, and decide they will be together forever. The end. There was too much not explained, too much left out, nothing really made much sense, and I have no interest in finding any of the other books in this series to go backwards or continue forwards.
July 16, 2016
An enjoyably short read.
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