Stonefire Dragons #1: Sacrificed to the Dragon

by Jessie Donovan

Other authorsMatthew Lloyd Davies (Narrator)
Digital audiobook, 2015

Library's rating

Library's review

This is a trashy romance novel, but it's the kind of trashy romance novel I love - with headstrong characters that respect and love each other. I do feel like this book should come with a slight content warning because pregnancy is a strong theme in the book, and human/dragonshifter couplings only
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have a 50% survival rate for the human mother. Since it's a romance novel, the heroine and her offspring are fine, but it's a difficult birth and there's also a minor character who dies in childbirth offpage. I could easily see someone who's had issues with pregnancy/childbirth getting blindsided by these parts of the book.
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Rating

(53 ratings; 3.4)

Publication

Mythical Lake Press, LLC (2015)

Description

In exchange for a vial of dragon's blood to save her brother's life, Melanie Hall offers herself up as a sacrifice to one of the British dragon-shifter clans. Being a sacrifice means signing a contract to live with the dragon-shifters for six months to try to conceive a child. Her assigned dragonman, however, is anything but easy. He's tall, broody, and alpha to the core. There's only one problem-he hates humans. Due to human dragon hunters killing his mother, Tristan MacLeod despises humans. Unfortunately, his clan is in desperate need of offspring to repopulate their numbers and it's his turn to service a human female. Despite his plans to sleep with her and walk away, his inner dragon has other ideas. The curvy human female tempts his inner beast like no other.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

User reviews

LibraryThing member wyvernfriend
In exchange for a vial of Dragon blood Melanie Hall offers herself up as a sacrifice to be with a dragon-shifter for at least six months with the risk of dying from giving birth to a dragon, all to save her brother. For her it's also a wonderful opportunity to see dragons close-up, having studied
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them academically for ages.

Her assigned dragon is Tristan MacLeod, who despises humans for what they did to his mother. She was killed by some hunters and ever since he's been against humans, but it's his turn to do this and he has to toe the line. He finds that she's not like others and maybe there's a few good humans, particularly this one.

It's fun, I wasn't expecting much more and I got what I expected, some pretty powerful sex scenes and some fun banter between characters. I like the sass the women in these give to their mates, they don't let them away with anything too possessive. I think she read the handbook on how not to write female characters and went with a lot of the ideas. I like the slow burn and the heat and how the characters get to be more themselves when they have their pair.
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LibraryThing member mirihawk
I really liked this book. Be warned - there was some graphic sex in it. But it was a very interesting world that was revealed in this 1st of several in the series. This book was like a bonbon - sweet and tasty and gone very fast. Not a lot of nutrition in it, but mmm!
LibraryThing member Linyarai
Pretty much what I expected from a free ebook, predictable romance with a dragon twist.
LibraryThing member lexilewords
So right off the bat let me admit to some trepidation. It sounds very PWP (plot what plot) erotica, not romance. But it won me over due to Melanie and later Arabella. Donovan builds the world and while it doesn't sound tremendously different then modern times, its fascinating how dragons were fit
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in.
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LibraryThing member Linyarai
Pretty much what I expected from a free ebook, predictable romance with a dragon twist.
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