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Love In The Time Of Dragons (2010)

by Katie MacAlister(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0451229711 (ISBN13: 9780451229717)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Signet

series

Light Dragons

review 1: Alright well let's begin with a warning that if you didn't read the previous series, which I didn't, you may be extreamly confused. This is the first of the Light Dragons series but deals with things that I assume have happened in the previous series and with the characters. This story begins with Tully Sullivan waking up from a frugue " a fainting attack where she manifest gold from lead" and being told that she is a dragon. So if you're like me and just picked up this book and haven't read the other than bam it like your Tully because I was just as confused as she was. So buckle up for a crazy adventure of descovering if Tully is really Ysolde the long lost mate of Baltic who apparently is the great evil dragon. This was a fun exciting book, even though I was a little mo... morere than a tad confused.
review 2: Woman with husband, child and career discovers that she really has amnesia, is not a woman but a dragon with a nasty ex dragon lover. All this is disclosed to her by perfect strangers who she then asks to bring her child to her and off the plot goes.This book was a classic lite supernatural-romance, as such quite diverting if you are in the mood but with nothing to make it stand out from dozens of others. I quite enjoyed it because I was in the mood for light reading, but it is not an especially good book. The writing is indifferent, the plot is formulaic, the ‘twists’ in the plot are beyond obvious and the dozens of extra characters are one dimensional and un-enthralling. Regarding the characters; this reads like one book in a series and a popular thing these days in fantasy romance seems to be to create on book for each romance, so for someone who has read all the previous books, the one dimensionality of most of the characters may not be a problem. Since the reader has already bonded with other couples by reading their stories in other books, they already identify with them. It is still not well written as a stand alone book however, and going online I find it is meant to be a "# 1" in a series which surprised me.I personally did not much like the ‘leading lady’ I found her character quite inconsistent, she babbled foolishly for a lot of the book and she was quite dumb – a characteristic I do not find endearing. She worked well enough for the story line though, even if the intention to write her as a strong and resolute character failed, I didn't mind too much.Up till now it was three stars, purely because I was enjoying it.At the end we reach the great exposé, the finale. And all I could think is: Was the author on speed, a frantic deadline, or serious sleep deficiency?The last chapter is idiotic, with characters behaving like stereotypes from a bad farce, the lead woman babbling constantly about sorbet (wtf?), a serious trial (could end in death serious) degenerating into a food porn chapter.... just...... wtf? Major war averted.... somehow, plot totally out the window.And regarding the food farce – if the huge array of canapés described were really on the table, it would have taken more than two people working all morning to make that spread. Maybe the author was on a diet and fantasising about all the food she had ever eaten. Just saying. less

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