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Jul 15, 2011 Jane Stewart rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance

Entertaining and enjoyable. The best parts were the hero’s personality, intense focus for his love, and the relationship.

STORY BRIEF:
The Wyrkind include dragons, gryphons, and other shape shifters. Dragos is a huge dragon who was created before humans existed. He’s ruler of the Wyrkind and lives in New York City. He has huge stashes of treasure, some buried under the NY subways. One of his enemies is the Dark Fae King Urien who lives in Chicago. Dragos has a truce with the Elves in the southern Entertaining and enjoyable. The best parts were the hero’s personality, intense focus for his love, and the relationship.

STORY BRIEF:
The Wyrkind include dragons, gryphons, and other shape shifters. Dragos is a huge dragon who was created before humans existed. He’s ruler of the Wyrkind and lives in New York City. He has huge stashes of treasure, some buried under the NY subways. One of his enemies is the Dark Fae King Urien who lives in Chicago. Dragos has a truce with the Elves in the southern U.S.

Pia’s mother was Wyr, her father human. Pia has an ability with locks. She touches locks and they open. After her mother died, she found comfort in boyfriend Keith and told him about her ability. Keith bragged about this to the wrong people. To settle his gambling debts he was given a “finding charm” and was told to use Pia to steal something from Dragos. He then blackmailed Pia into doing it, telling her he would give away her secrets if she didn’t. So Pia used the charm and was able to get through Dragos’ locks. She stole one penny from his stash. She then purchased a binding spell to stop Keith from ever talking about her again. Then she went on the run, fearing for her life.

After Dragos discovered the theft his roar frightened the city, and he destroyed millions of dollars in property with his temper tantrum. He became obsessed with finding the thief.

REVIEWER’S OPINION:
I think this is the first dragon romance book that I’ve liked. The main draw is the character Dragos. He is obsessed with Pia. He wants her and only her. He doesn’t know how to treat someone he loves. She has to tell him to say please. At times his ownership, jealousy, and protectiveness overwhelm him, and she calms him down. There is a cute scene on pages 75-76 about her calming him down so he won’t suffer further damage from an enemy. It was unexpectedly fun because she was his prisoner at the time. I enjoyed watching their relationship. The sex scenes were good. He was a softie - wanting her pleasure. He washed her hair, found special food for her, and gave her a credit card (which she didn’t want).

The first half of the book was the best. The last half was ok but was a little bit of a letdown. Things weren’t as exciting or special. But I liked it enough to order the sequel “Storm’s Heart” coming August 2011 about Tricks (Fae) and Tiago (Wyr). “Dragon Bound” is the first in the Elder Races series.

A minor negative was Pia doing something stupid which allowed the bad guy to get her. I would have preferred the bad guy being super smart instead of the heroine doing something stupid. But this wasn’t as bad as a lot of others.

I noticed one reviewer did not like Dragos being an ancient guy “speaking in a modern fashion.” I say this is FICTION. Nothing needs to be historically or factually accurate. (He can shapeshift for heaven’s sake!) The important things are enjoying and being engaged which this does well.

DATA:
Story length: 312 pages. Swearing language: strong. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 6. Estimated number of sex scene pages: 19. Setting: current day New York City, S. Carolina, and other areas along the east coast U.S. Copyright: 2011. Genre: paranormal romance. ...more

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Dec 20, 2011 Patricia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, thea-harrison-elder-races-series, 100-in-2013

Bare in mind that this one goes to my favorites shelf, it's up for a read, re-read, a million times, over and over. This said let's move on.

Thea Harrison drove me into an amazing world where humans lived side by side with Wyr, fairies, vampires, and where old magic exists with modernity, computers, big cities, borders to magic kingdoms ....
From the first page that I read, I couldn't put down the book, I just wanted more and more .... and as usual, after the last page, in the days that followed I ...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Joletta rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I just finished Thea Harrison's Dragon Bound, the first in a promising series she calls the Elder Races. This book is set in an alternate reality where wyrkind (all supernatural races) and humans co-exist.

Dragos Cuelebre is the biggest and baddest of the bad. He controls a huge area, is one of if not THE oldest wyr, is very much the dominant predator and this is who Pia Giovanni is being blackmailed to steal from. To paraphrase her own comments; "she is so screwed."

Dragos is incredibly furious, I just finished Thea Harrison's Dragon Bound, the first in a promising series she calls the Elder Races. This book is set in an alternate reality where wyrkind (all supernatural races) and humans co-exist.

Dragos Cuelebre is the biggest and baddest of the bad. He controls a huge area, is one of if not THE oldest wyr, is very much the dominant predator and this is who Pia Giovanni is being blackmailed to steal from. To paraphrase her own comments; "she is so screwed."

Dragos is incredibly furious, beyond human comprehension angry that someone dared break into his hoard and steal from him. He is more than prepared to begin rending the intruder limb from limb. However, when he corners the beautiful thief his thoughts of rending turn to kisses and his anger turns to lust. This dragon has found a treasure worth more than anything in his hoard, now he must devise a plan to bind the elusive beauty to him so that he can work on hoarding her heart.

Pia is terrified by the savagely gorgeous leader of the wyrkind when he runs her to ground. In fact, she expects the rending to begin any moment...but before her grisly death, she can't help but covet the finely chiseled body pinning hers. After they work-out the whole "tell me what I want to know and I won't rend you to pieces" thing, Pia decides that she just might be the only one on the planet who can teach this apex predator to coax instead of order, ask instead of demand...love instead of own.

The chemistry between Pia and Dragos leaps off the page and grabs you. I laughed out loud more than once when this extremely alpha male butted heads with his extremely modern woman. There's something to be said about a couple whose inside joke of Pia not being right in the head leads to sensational sex...perfecto!

I couldn't put Dragon Bound down, and lost half a nights sleep cavorting with this mismatched pair. Thea Harrison's premier novel has left me panting for more. I can't wait for the next installment and have put Dragon Bound firmly in my to-be-read-over-and-over pile. ...more

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Dec 07, 2011 Silver James rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: keeper, 2014-books-read, reread, 2015-books-read, paranormal, audio-books, romance, urban-fantasy, my-go-to-authors, 2021-books-read

Dragon Bound (Elder Races, #1) by Thea Harrison

2025 relisten: Has it really been since '21 since I last visited Dragos and Pia? It's still a fun book. The interplay between these two is a treat and the world/paranormal aspects are different. Glad I decided to pick it up for a quick visit.

2021: I swear I've read this book multiple times but for some reasons, none but the first is showing. That or my review from the Kindle edition didn't transfer when I switched to the audio version. Sophie Eastlake--narrator FTW. First book in Harrison's ...more

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Oct 19, 2013 Karen Russell rated it it was amazing

Stayed up all night reading this one, which is something I haven't done in a long time. yes there's sex in it but the characters are what always draw me to a book and keep me reading. ...more

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