#dragon bound

[mashithamel]

Dragon Bound: Thea Harrison, Elder Races series

Found this when looking for books to read after the Psy-Changeling series.

Sexy, exciting, witty, and with main characters I can root for. This is everything I hoped Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunters books were. I love the heist at the beginning (she steals a penny from him, and he knows exactly which one🔥) and the tension between Pia’s fear for her life and the strong sexual energy between her and Dragos. I love how both of them are confused by what’s happening between them, and he’s a dragon, so his extreme possessiveness is a feature instead of just being creepy. The action is fun (goblin attack and the prison escape especially), and I like how she’s a very gentle person but is also very capable of standing up for herself and handles Dragos so well. Naturally he is a billionaire, because no romantic fantasy is complete without absolute financial independence, so we get some upper-class living porn too. Poor Rune just gets beat up by everybody in the mating fury, poor thing. Good thing he gets mated soon. Then it turns out she’s a unicorn (my first time reading about a unicorn shifter!), and the pregnancy angle is really interesting—and I like how she roped in some of the sentinels to help her and got them on her side.

Bottom line: A fun read! Satisfying, catches my interest. One I’d probably read again.

Rating: four and a half out of five stolen pennies

[fated-mates]

You didn’t think we were going to stay silent during the current dragon frenzy, did you? We absolutely have things to say about dragon heroes, and the one from Thea Harrison’s Dragon Bound in particular — which meant we had no choice but to do a surprise deep dive, read along! We talk about dragon shifters, about the history of dragons in romance, about why we think this is a near perfect example of paranormal romance and road trip romance. Also, if you are looking for rom com, look no further. This is a funny funny book.

Show Notes

[kvalenagle]

It's National #AppreciateADragonDay?? Well, what better dragon to appreciate than Stekin from Dragon Source and Dragon Bound by Glenn Birmingham =]

Glenn's still recovering, but he's started writing again, and the audiobooks of his series are coming soon. (Art by Kittrel / YoteNotes.)

[perplexingly]

My favourite Merrill banter

[abbytabbys]

Too smart for her own good

[probablybadrpgideas]

Real Reasons Dragons Hoard Gold

Tax evasion scheme

There are no other options

The king's entire army is unable to stop this dragon from taking all the gold

And then the taxman comes along

"Oh no, I would tell you my assets, but they're all in the lair of a dragon. Guess you'll have to mark me as having no money and deserving of a significant tax cut!"

Then the taxman leaves, and what happens?

The King finds a bunch of adventurers and tells them to fight the dragon

And suddenly the dragon- who need i remind is superintelligent, an archmage, strong enough to tear a giant in half and took down an entire nation's military not last month?

"Oh no! I cannot defeat five traumatized weirdos! I am slain! I guess you'd better take all this gold back to the king"

And all is well until next tax season when Oh No! The dragon has "somehow" revived and has taken all the gold again!

Someone needs to expose this, guys. This is why we still have medieval tech after 3000 years- all the funding's vanishing into unlisted dragon accounts.

[vaguely-concerned]

purple hawke who, at malcolm's death, lost not only a father, a mentor, the single most stable and safe point in their world up until this moment. but also the only person in their life who would consistently, gleefully 'yes, and — ' them. the loss, in one fell swoop, of both a beloved parent and your sole willing — no, not only willing, enthusiastic — improv partner. truly, the most unkindest cut of all that the maker could have seen fit to deal. (there's always so much less laughter in the house, after malcolm's gone.)

and then after all the horrors of the blight and trying to make a new life in the shithole turned shithome of kirkwall....... they meet varric. and something that's been slumbering deep within their soul dries a tear of relief and joy and whispers 'oh we are so back'. and they are so right

[kitty4president]

did yall catch that new switch drop, who'd have thought sega would actually loan out the yakuza series to nintendo for this kind of collab!!

✨🐲🦀🏝✨

[anura-artist]

wake up babe new oc just dropped. this is Red he is my boy

[mummer]

rhaenyra outsourcing motherhood to rhaena and assigning her that passive feminine role was REALLY interesting….. rhaenyra as a character is at her most fascinating when she is forced to navigate and ultimately perpetuate the gendered structures she despises and wishes she could transcend— the seeds of her tragedy already sewn here. just great character work

[tidetower]

The Prince of the Hightower and the Heir to High Tide

Artist: erchitos

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

[kiivg]

.please please please please please pl.

[kvalenagle]

I just realized that it's not just that a lot of GryphIns fan art hasn't shown up on Tumblr yet, but also Glenn Birmingham's Dragon Source. Well, since it's National Appreciate a Dragon Day, let's fix that, starting with @toadalled's wonderful Stekin pieces, some of the very first. Glenn has a tendency to stumble across random queer frogs or bug plushies in the wild and send them to Smatterbrain, and if I remember correctly, these were her way of saying thank you for all the gay frogs. Stekin is one of the two protagonists of the Reunification series by Glenn Birmingham. The first book follows Arten, a girl with magical fire burning its way out of her, and Stekin, a frosty dragon trying to get her to safety before the church finds her. While Stekin is hiding in human form for most of the first book, later entries take place inside a city of dragons. Though my favorite exchange from Dragon Source is... Arten: "But where does the tail go when you transform?" Stekin: "That is a very rude question!" Glenn's recovering from long COVID complications and only recently has become just well enough to do some writing. Dragon Source and Dragon Bound are available now (books2read.com/dragon source), and the third book is in the end of story edits, wrapping up an unfinished subplot, though there's no ETA while he's recovering. If you'd like to listen on audio, both of the first two books have been recorded by James Scott Spaid and are undergoing audioproofing.

[citrusai]

taash said "they were doing it" and people ran with the interpretation of an npc that doesn't know solas or the history of the elvhenan even when bellara interjected and said, no, that's not right. that's not how it was for the elvhenan. they formed bonds before they had physical bodies. and people ran to doompost or create weird anti-solavellan shit even though mythal & solas refer to each other as old friends and when she releases him there is no tenderness or love in it. it is the act of unchaining a dog from his post, the stepping down of a general. but to each their own ig.

[abbytabbys]

It all begins