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Fire in His Blood by Ruby Dixon
2.0
The Good
There is actually a lot of interesting world-building for a dragon romance book and it made me more invested in the story. Claudia is the most reasonable female lead I've seen in a shifter/paranormal romance like this. She isn't automatically cool with it and still has her own desires and life she wants to get back to. Her fears are completely rational but she's also trying her best to adapt. (See the next section for how this changes) Kael is also great! He is fighting the madness and is trying his best to understand Claudia. He's patient and mischievous which was cute to see. I like that the fated mates this time is not automatically mutual and took more time. I reminded me of the first Ice Planet Barbarian book which is my favorite.
The Bad
I understand the militia is desperate but why would they think Claudia if chosen by the dragon would protect their fort like the other woman... They left her to die. Also Fated mates... Again. Ruby Dixon loves this trope so much and at this point I must begrudgingly love it to or something because it makes me roll my eyes but I read anyways. By the 50% mark the story stalls. I appreciate the introduction to more of her life at the fort but I feel like Dixon sometimes reiterates the same talking points over and over. We know her sister sells herself, we know her other sister has a limp and needs to be taken care, we know the militia treats women poorly. The first part of the book set all these things up and were covered. Why does she need to go over these all again Towards the end of the book I started to dislike Claudia. She went through all that to "save" her friend and sister from the men at the Fort only to then have them forced to mate dragons for the same reason. She is essentially doing the same thing that was done to her but saying "Well I like Kael now so they will too probably." Her motivation is so different from the beginning it makes no sense. Why save them to begin with! For her own selfish reasons of course to make herself feel better.
The Rating
I give this book a2/5
There is actually a lot of interesting world-building for a dragon romance book and it made me more invested in the story. Claudia is the most reasonable female lead I've seen in a shifter/paranormal romance like this. She isn't automatically cool with it and still has her own desires and life she wants to get back to. Her fears are completely rational but she's also trying her best to adapt. (See the next section for how this changes) Kael is also great! He is fighting the madness and is trying his best to understand Claudia. He's patient and mischievous which was cute to see. I like that the fated mates this time is not automatically mutual and took more time. I reminded me of the first Ice Planet Barbarian book which is my favorite.
The Bad
I understand the militia is desperate but why would they think Claudia if chosen by the dragon would protect their fort like the other woman... They left her to die. Also Fated mates... Again. Ruby Dixon loves this trope so much and at this point I must begrudgingly love it to or something because it makes me roll my eyes but I read anyways. By the 50% mark the story stalls. I appreciate the introduction to more of her life at the fort but I feel like Dixon sometimes reiterates the same talking points over and over. We know her sister sells herself, we know her other sister has a limp and needs to be taken care, we know the militia treats women poorly. The first part of the book set all these things up and were covered. Why does she need to go over these all again Towards the end of the book I started to dislike Claudia. She went through all that to "save" her friend and sister from the men at the Fort only to then have them forced to mate dragons for the same reason. She is essentially doing the same thing that was done to her but saying "Well I like Kael now so they will too probably." Her motivation is so different from the beginning it makes no sense. Why save them to begin with! For her own selfish reasons of course to make herself feel better.
The Rating
I give this book a2/5