People who look like us but have dragon ancestry can
interbreed with us and produce children who are more or
less gifted with dragonish behaviours. As an Enforcer,
falling into the role when her aunt flew off with her
hoard, Rena Drake has seen the best and the worst of her
kind. The more ancient dragons eat human flesh, newer ones
just meat. Now a group of renegade Draken is going around
killing humans without paying attention to the police.
Rena's job is to stop them from endangering the rest of her
community.
BREATH OF FIRE is required to make a Draken's body burn up
completely. A female Draken was among those killed, and
Rena has enough on her plate when an FBI agent shows up.
Noah Ford works in a paranormal unit, and is trying to
understand the rash of killings. Rena is thought to be a
psychic... among other talents she can erase memories.
There is quite a lot of violence in this tale and
Alasdair, the ruler of Rena's clan as well as her father,
is unfortunately a source of some of it. Rena doesn't have
a choice in the master she serves. Each clan is suspicious
of the others and if Alasdair is right, some Draken are
using that to their advantage, killing Draken as well as
humans to muster an army.
My usual quibble with urban fantasy - that it starts off as
adventure and quickly becomes explanations of hierarchies
and who gives orders to whom - is realised again as Rena
hears a lot of Draken history and gets summoned or ordered
around. This may be part of the author's intricate weaving
but it slows down the adventure. Every time Rena meets
another dragon things get crashed around or people get
broken. Well, I suppose that's what you have to expect of
dragons. We see that Draken like the colours red and gold
a lot; not all of them can take dragon shape; and they take
much longer to grow up than humans. Then Rena gets a
lifemate, Julian, and her inner dragon begins to take over,
including shapechanging, hoarding and mating behaviours,
and life gets a lot more interesting.
BREATH OF FIRE by Liliana Hart is a lengthy absorbing
fantasy read, with plenty of action - but not all of it
pleasant. Urban fantasy fans will enjoy this unusual adult
romance.
Since the Banishment, Rena has become the Drakán Enforcer,
cleaning up the messes her dragon brethren make in order to
keep their presence in the human world hidden.
When a group of rogue Drakán begins killing dragons who
refuse to join the army of the Destroyer—the dragon they
believe will become their true king—Rena has no choice but
to take action.
Special Agent Noah Ford appears, seemingly out of nowhere,
to offer his assistance and protection. Protection, from a
human? Hell, no. But something about him draws her
hypnotically, erotically close. Some secret he refuses to
reveal
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