Fire of a Dragon (Fallen Immortals #3)

In the first book Arabella is strong and has a good head on her shoulders. The writing is fierce and fun and the love was great. The second book, even with good pacing, was a disappointment reducing the woman to a simpering fool who just gives up on the whole life she had so she can love some guy. The lines are more trite. The whole book is emo. Well, this is the same. I couldn\’t put the first book down, but this? I had troubles picking it back up. The action is not engaging. The woman has lost all her fight. If you have a thing for babies and just want baby this and baby that, well then you will enjoy this book. But for myself it was overwhelming and extremely offputting.

Fire of a Dragon was a perfect ending of Lucian Smoke and Arabella Sharps mating story. I read this one in about 5 hours. I couldn\’t put it down. As you know after bk.2 Heart of a Dragon Arabella is pregnant with Lucian\’s baby Dragonling. This is the story of her 6 week pregnancy. It is wonderfully written. Full of lively events and some scary ones when the dragon fire take hold of her.. I fell in love with the unborn Dragonling who was named Larik after his grandfather. I just wish there more written after he was born to bond him with his parents and his family. Of course the Fae have more tricks to play which leads to the next brother Leonidas\’s 3 part story. Well I have to finish all the books don\’t I? if I want to know what happens and how matters are resolved. The only problem I had with this series is so far all the evil foes outsmart, outfight and seem to more advanced mentally then the dragons. I wish this was reversed. Don\’t get me wrong the Dragons win the day, but only after there butts have been kicked and they have to regroup. However, Fallen Immortals are worth the Journey!! Happy Reading to those who chose to read the series.

I give it less than the first book because it felt short, and because of the weird turn in the end. I mean, I’ll probably read the other books as well of the stories of the other two brothers, but it felt like it was meant to stretch the series. So, the two brothers will also somehow find a mate? Then what? Of course it wouldn’t end well with just that. I think that there would still be a war at the end and instead of going the roundabout way through the 3 brother’s stories before reaching that point, I’d rather it happened earlier on already.

What I did not like was the way the female main character turned into a helpless pregnant woman. Except for those times when she came about and solved anything that needed solving. This was inconsistent with the character as presented in the first two books. It would benefit the book and thereby the reader if the writer would read the first two books and then rewrite the third book. I particularly disliked that she did not have an ending to the book or trilogy. Rather than a firm conclusion tying up all the loose ends or at least most of them, there was in the last few pages a new challenge given resulting in a significant cliffhanger. What I did like was the world building, the way each character had his or her unique voice and the elimination of one of the many \’bad guys\’ in the story. Cliffhangers always leave me with a bad taste in my mouth. As a consequence I am not likely to read further in this series or other books by this writer. She has potential. I will check in in a few years and see if she has written a proper ending. One can hope.

I couldn’t sleep last night. I took a long mid-afternoon nap yesterday plus drank several cups of coffee before dinner and while I was dead tired at 9 P.M, by midnight I was wide awake. As I was lying in bed staring at the ceiling, enumerating every ache and pain, I decided I would finish book 3 of Alisa Woods “Fallen Immortals series”, Fire of a Dragon. I had left the book just when it was getting to another climatic scene. Planning to read for just an hour or so, I was surprised when I heard the neighbor’s rooster crowing and realized that it was almost 6 in the morning! Time flies when you are lost in the world of magic, warring Fae and Dragon- shifter clans. Ms. Woods refers to her series as a “paranormal fairytale romance” and I believe that fairytale and romance are indeed good keywords. Like all good fairytales there is a smoking hot prince, (in fact quite a few princes) in search of his princess. Of course , his princess does not seem to be a princess at first, just an ordinary human female trying to stay alive in the city of Seattle. Also like most fairytales there is magic, a quest to save the world, fairies good and bad and to make things interesting, dragons , angels and demons too. As far as romance goes, the underlying theme of the books is whether or not True Love exists and can love really conquer all. Also be warned, this fairytale is definitely not meant for children’s bedtime, as it has numerous steamy sex scenes as only love between dragons and humans can be! Book 1 Kiss of a Dragon, Alisa Woods introduces the hero, Lucian Smoke, Crown Dragon Prince of the House of Smoke. Hard to belief that anyone so hot could be already 500 years old, but Prince Lucian is close to dying, unless he meets his “True Love” and begets a dragonling. To make matters more pressing, if he fails in this quest, a very old treaty that protects humanity from the immortal world of the dark Fae will expire and mortals may fall prey to demons. However, a dragon’s mate rarely survives the birth of a young dragon and Lucian refuses to be responsible for the death of another woman. He rescues Arabella from a demon roaming the streets of Seattle and decides to try to seduce her , without losing his heart, before he turns into a beast and the treaty is broken forever. I bet you don’t need a crystal ball, to know how well that works out! Lucian and Arabella’s adventure continue in book 2 Heart of a Dragon. It is here that Alisa Woods, explores the idea of what is “True Love” and if you can truly love a person, warts and all, without ever doubting that love is real. Lucian and Arabella are forever being tested and it does seem like they are the proverbial star-crossed lovers. But again, if love is true then doesn’t it always conquer every obstacle thrown at it? It is not until book 3, Fire of a Dragon, that Ms. Woods reveals if Lucian and Arabella’s love is strong enough to save the world. There are plenty of heart stopping moments for Lucian, Arabella, their family and friends, which keep you turning the page to see what happens next. Each book ends with a cliffhanger, sometimes literally. But don’t fear like all good fairytales there is happily ever after waiting at the end. I love that Alisa Woods has such believable characters. Yes, the hero is dragon-fire hot , a billionaire and a prince. Yet, he is also broken, with flaws and tendency to let his heart and soul get in the way of his good judgement. And the heroine, is not some damsel in distress just waiting for a prince to sweep in and make life beautiful. Arabella is a complete person with strength in character and able to take care of herself in many situations. Yet together, like any good romance reader will tell you, love between soulmates, has a magic that always makes the couple stronger together then they are apart. I highly recommend you pick up the “Fallen Immortals series” Books 1-3 by Alisa Woods. Like me you may find that knights in shining armor , riding white horses and saving you from fire-breathing dragons , is not near as much fun as hot dragon -shifter, sweeping down out of the skies and carrying you off to a mountain lair, far away from the evil world!

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