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.