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Blood Bonds (2012)

by Adrienne Wilder(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Gray Zone Publishing

series

City of Dragons

review 1: This book was mildly entertaining but I just didn't find it realistic enough. There was too much woo-woo magic crap used to explain everything. Don't get me wrong, I like woo-woo magic crap but only if it has boundaries, limitations and consequences. In this book, the boundaries seemed to bounce all over the place and the reasons behind personal power/dominance was a little wishy-washy. What made one Male stronger than another? I have no idea. I know age played a factor but not always. For example, Farley's brother was stronger than him. And it definitely had nothing to do with skill. It seemed all the dragons did was bite and scratch and use brute force. No finesse. I also didn't like a lot of the concepts, especially the hatching dragon white-scales thing. They were just... more gross and violent. All I kept picturing was squirming larva with sharp teeth. Yuck. I prefer the idea that everything is born innocent. The baby dragons just wanted to eat people and each other. I also didn't like that the dragons practically never took dragon shape. And when they did, they were practically the size of half a football field. Too big and too invincible for me. And speaking of invincible, nothing short of decapitation will kill these things! They were ripping off body parts left right and center and they just grew back. One other thing was the idea that they had to eat parts of each other to survive. I didn't like that. I was okay with the touchy-feely needs and the sex needs and the energy sharing need...but not the consuming of the flesh crap. Anyway, I could go on but I think writing this review is actually lowering my opinion of the book post mortem. But all in all I was disappointed yet kind of entertained. So I guess it wasn't that bad... Wow this review is indecisive.
review 2: 3.5 starsBlood Bonds focuses on Kin, or dragons. Kin take a human form and must be "fed" regularly, in both a literal and metaphysical way. Food and sex have blurry lines in this world. Haley Night is a Kin that has been raised by humans and had "impressed" many human traits. She doesn't feel 100 percent comfortable around Kin, yet she's not human, either. She works for a government agency and is an agent who questions non-human subjects. Farley is another Kin that works with her as an informant. He was not raised by humans, but has sworn off human meat. He was brought in to "feed" Haley because he was not raised around Kin. They have been friends for over 100 years at the setting of this story. Farley is seen by other Kin as nothing but "food." We find later on that he is stronger than he or anyone else thinks.There is an evil government colonol who is trying to wipe out the entire existence of Kin. Haley finds herself in the middle of this mess, and has to work with Kin while still holding on to her humanity.There is a lot of blood and sex, sometimes erotic, in this story. I like Farley and the rest of the Kin cast, although I think there needs to be some serious character development in any upcoming stories. Sometimes, Haley comes off as very professional and modern, and then she'll say something that is more immature in nature. I like how the author wrote Farley's inner strength and his understanding of the Kin world versus Haley's ignorance. However, I think that Farley is also a bit immature - some of the things he says and the belching is just a little much.The author does a good job introducing the reader to the dragon world. It was a good first novel, but I hope that she gets better copy editing on the next story. I'm usually not one to compain about this kind of thing, but there were some errors in the text that are blatent. Some words are missing, there are extra words added in some place where they don't make sense, even a misplaced comma that changed a sentence's meaning.I wish Niles would have been in the story more. He seemed like such a great character. I really enjoyed Justice, too.I will read the next story in this series to see where Haley and Farley are going. less

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