Love in the Time of Dragons: A Novel of the Light Dragons
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- ISBN13: 9780451229717
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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When it comes to like, one woman is scaling back her expectations…
Tully Sullivan is just like any additional suburban mom-except she’s just woken up in a weird place surrounded by weird people who keep insisting that they’re dragons-and that she’s one too.
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Why is this not available via Kindle in the US? LOVE this series and want to read it on my Kindle!! Will change my rating once it becomes available.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I regularly use Harriet’s reviews as a basis for purchasing a book and so although I thought MacAlister’s last couple of books were missing, I bought this one because of Harriet’s strong review. Well, Harriet, this book is a real dud and will be the last book I buy by MacAlister. What a waste. Did it even have a plot? or a real conversation that lasted more than three or four lines? Ugh, what a waste of my time and money. I give it a two because I figure that anyone who manages to get a book really published deserves a least a two but that’s all I can give it.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Tully Sullivan had her annual fugue too early this year. She is fortunate that kind Londoners looked after her while she slept away a month. Still to some extent rattled, she misses her beloved son Brom, but not her spouse Gareth.
Tully understands magic exists as she is an apprentice mage. But, even she is taken aback when she awakens from a fugue state surrounded by mad dragons; as everyone knows these beasts are mythical. But, her denial ends quickly when she learns they judge she is Ysolde de Boucher, the mate of the deadly black dragon Baltic. As his dragon spouse, she will be executed for his crimes against dragonkind and mankind. Tully has no time for execution as her son awaits her back in her realm. She facts step one is escape; step two is to beat the fiery snot out of her dragon mate wyvern the terrible Baltic; and the final step return to Brom. As a replacement for she finds herself investigating crimes and Like in the Time of the Dragons.
This first Light Dragons fantasy is an amusing lighthearted frolic held together by a female who has no memory of ever being a dragon in her past lives. Tully the terrific makes the tale fresh and exciting, as she follows her steps only to run into one fiasco after another especially once she meets Baltic the terrible. Fans of Kate MacAlister’s Silver Dragons will not see chocolate in the same way while appreciating the escapades of heroic Tully as she wanders the Dragon landscape she believes she has only seen in her dreams.
Harriet Klausner
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I’m a huge fan of Katie Macalister’s Dark Ones series, so I thought I’d test out one of her additional series. This book had Katie’s usual wisecracking heroine (something I permanently delight in), her kooky sense of humor, a brooding alpha male hero whose life gets turned upside down when he meets his match (the wisecracking heroine, of course), and it was set in an alternate version of our modern world – where mythical creatures and magic are real.
I was a small lost since this was obviously not the first book in the series, it didn’t stand alone at all, and it didn’t place me wanting to go back and read the rest. Baltic, the hero, seemed bumbling and stupid. In fact, all of the men seemed “whipped” by their women. I’d rather see them tamed, not snivelling wusses.
I reflect I’ll stick with the Dark Ones series. Thankfully, a new one comes out in November.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t looking forwards to Ysolde and Baltic’s tale. BUT, I permanently feel this way when one “mini-series” is ending. I didn’t reflect I would like May and Gabriel and was upset there were no more Aisling/Drake books. It doesn’t take me long to become interested in the new main characters, though. I also wasn’t sure how I would feel about the past flashbacks.
I finished up feeling the flashbacks/visions worked extremely well at informing the reader AND Tully about Ysolde and Baltic’s history and the history of the silver/black dragons. But, I do wish there was some warning when flashing back or forwards. The visions start within a chapter with nothing telling you it’s coming. I guess maybe Katie MacAlister wanted the reader to be as surprised at the occurences as Tully was.
It was really nice to see an “ancient-fashioned” man in Baltic. I never would have thought Tully would be able to, in a way, control him so easily. It was also very enjoyable when Tully/Baltic had the vision of Ysolde/Baltic in the bedroom. For persons who have read it, you know what I mean
I was SO glad Katie was able to work Jim into the majority of the book. He is permanently so entertaining (right up there with humorous characters by Kim Harrison and Karen Chance). I did, but, reflect a lot of the humor/language throughout the book was forced (not Jim’s lines, but the the dialogue that was argumentative but supposed to be humorous).
One thing that REALLY bothered me was that Katie MacAlister mentioned multiple times about Tully’s son Brom looking at and talking about her breasts. Creepy.
This book did not seem to close any doors. It told the background of what happened to Ysolde, Baltic, and the fallout of Kostya, and the black/silver dragons, so that was excellent. But, the ending left me with many more questions than I had before starting the book. Of course, I will read the next in the series. I would have read it even if the book hadn’t finished with so many unanswered questions. It seems more and more authors are ending books in the middle of a tale line.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5