Illarion doesn't have any warm feelings toward humans. He
was dragon born but forced to serve humans as a mount in
their army and become human ... all against his will.
Exiled and having lost the only thing he ever loved he
finds he has a chance to get back all he lost but is it
worth his DRAGONMARK to betray his brothers and an oath he
made. After centuries, his human heart just might win over.
I have to admit that I use to be a big fan of author
Sherrilyn Kenyon and I have all of her earlier Dark Hunter
books, but after Acheron's story I kind of fell away ... I
could only read the second half of that one. But I have
been reading dragon shifter books lately and wanted to give
this one a try.
With DRAGONMARK, I enjoyed going back into in Ms. Kenyon's
Dark Hunter world and this made me realize that I had
missed it. I enjoyed getting to know Illarion and his Edilyn
Edilyn, the human woman he came to love. Edilyn is a
warm-hearted but tough woman who was not one to bow to
anyone not even a dragon making her the perfect match to the
gruff, surly
Illarion. To say he is anti-social is a very
big understatement, but he does grow on you. The other
characters of DRAGONMARK added color and helped weave the
magic that is this particular world. Ms. Kenyon has a way
with the characters, some old ones returning and some new
ones, bantering back and forth and being total smart asses
to one another that almost makes these "people" feel real.
DRAGONMARK did not disappoint me, though I understand from
others that it wasn't quite what they hoped for. I had not
read the other two books that deal with this subject matter
so there was no rehashing for me. I read a number of
comments that mentioned that was a big complaint for them.
So for me this was a fresh look at a dragon, a human woman
and the gods of Olympus.
The first book in the Dark-Hunter world that kicks off the
thrilling Dragons Rising mini series.
Centuries ago, Illarion was betrayed–a dragon made human
against his will, then forced to serve humanity as a
dragonmount in their army, and to fight for them in barbaric
wars, even while he hated everything about them. Enslaved
and separated from everyone he knew and from his own dragon
brothers, he was forced into exile in a fey realm where he
lost the only thing he ever really loved.
Now he has a chance to regain what’s been lost—to have the
one thing he covets most. But only if he gives up his
brothers and forsakes the oaths he holds most dear. Yet what
terrifies him most isn’t the cost his happiness might incur,
it’s the fact that there is just enough human in his
dragon’s heart that he might actually be willing to pay it
and betray everything and everyone– to see the entire world
burn...
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