With this review, I'm making my first post in my side blog dedicated to my reads, and especially to the Dark-Hunters. You can expect some activity here from now on. feel free to follow me (I'll follow back from my main blog @green-arrows-of-karamel).
That said, let's continue with the good.
Every year and with every new book, I tell myself that I should be prepared for anything that Sherrilyn Kenyon has stored for us, but every freaking time she manages to blow my mind away. Dragonsworne isn’t the exception. From the dragons’ trilogy (Dragonbane, Dragonmark, and Dragonsworn), this is the book I like the most. Much better than Illarion’s, that’s for sure. Besides this book has one of the most unexpected revelations that have been in the series in a while. My head is still reeling from it. I did NOT see that coming. Nuh-uh. Not at all. Although, I admit that it also confirms and/or clears some old questions (of course, it brings new ones too, as always).
I think I can divide the book in 3 acts. The first: the action-packed, fast-paced beginning; the second: a bit slower, emotional middle; to finish with the third: the detonation of a nuclear bomb. There’s no other way to put it. Seriously. I should be used to those plot twists, but damn, this one is big! There’s no doubt that Sherri is the goddess of the unexpected plot twists.
By now, you probably have noticed that I’m being vague in my review. That’s on purpose. I don’t want to spoil those who haven’t read the book and don’t want know anything before they do. If that’s your case, I have only one thing to say to you…. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? Go and read it, for Christ’s sake!!
For the rest of you that either already read it or you want spoilers, keep reading below the cut, where I’m spilling all the beans.
Are you still with me? Last chance to go before the spoiler parade commences. No? Okay, here we go.
Let’s start with the main couple,
Falcyn and Medea…
Since the first time I found out these 2 were going to be a couple, I thought that it was going quite interesting and I wasn’t disappointed. If anything I was surprised with them by how sweet and cute are with each other! Gah! So adorable!
I love, love, loooooooove that even Medea is the “evil princess” she wasn’t a bitch, you know. Not even once. Not to anyone that didn’t deserve it. Her so-called animosity was 100% flirtatious with Falcyn. It was a delight to read the interactions with him. Both proved that their “evil” attitude comes more from the instinct to protect themselves than from a truly malignant soul. I can’t wait to see more of them in the coming books.
Urian
I love Urian, being an over protective brother, funny because obviously Medea is super capable of take care of herself. That’s just a taste of how he’ll be with Kody in the future. Adorable, even if it’s a bit aggravating for the girls.
But I CANNOT believe the super mega nuclear bomb that Sherri threw on our laps. Phoebe, alive?!!??! What the fuck???!!! Come again?! I’m still in shock! I mean, there was nothing that prepared me for THAT! As soon as I finished Dragonsworne, I went back to Kiss of the Night. I had to! I had to know if there was some clue that I’d missed. Now I know that Uri, as everybody else, assumed she was dead because she wasn’t there, there was no body, but there was no blood or ashes either to confirm that Phoebe had died. Uri found her necklace, that’s it!! Damn it, Sheri, you didn’t again!! Grr!
We should know by now not to believe something in the books that comes from just one POV. Yet, Sherri manages to fool us over and over again. I love and hate her for that!
Now we have to wait a whole year, plus the 2 we’ve already waited since the goddess announce Urian’s book was coming, to know how everything is going to end. The longest year of my life, I swear. I thought the waiting for Styxx was hellish, but noooo, THIS is hell!! The question is now if Phoebe is going to be the HEA, because I heard that she wasn’t, I may be wrong o simply was a simple deception to give it more impact the bomb dropping, but there’s that possibility. I had paired him with Xyn, Falcyn’s sister, but now I’m not sure. Time will tell, I guess.
Support groups
A while back, I said that it exists a support group for the characters with asshole siblings, you know, with Zarek, Styxx, Cadegan… now we can include Falcyn in there too. But not only that. I think it’s necessary to create a support group for the characters that believe to be one thing and end up being children/grandchildren to another character. In that group we can include: Cade that believes to be brother to Thorn when actually is his son; Blaise who believed to be brother but is grandson to Falcyn; Cherise and Nick who are the granddaughter and great-grandson to Xev; Urian who thought to be just Styxx’ friend and up being his son; and the list goes on and on. This group is way too large.
Random stuff
Davyn. I need a book of him, now!! So, so bad!
I expect to see Wulf and Cass in the next book because how to deal with the whole Phoebe-is-still-alive-thing without telling to her sister, right. Also, I need significant amount of Styxx, too, because there’s no way that he won’t be there for his son.
Oh I love, love, love, the mystery around Apollymi is finally getting a bit clearer. Now we know how the hell she ended up marrying Archon. And I’m 100% convinced that our favorite theory of who is Ash’ father is true. I’m pretty sure that I know who is Kissare reborn. That’s not too had to figure out. It's a surly surfer, whose name starts with S and ends with avitar. I’m so giddy about that. My shipping heart is so, so happy.
Have you noticed that Simi saves everyone? Lol!! She appears and automatically the day is saved.
I love that the whole CoN bunch was mentioned. Nick, Aeron, Dagon, etc. but there’s something that worries me a looooottt!! Have you noticed that when someone mentions Caleb is in the past, never in the present. It’s like he isn’t around. I get that Kody isn’t mentioned at all because she shouldn’t be/isn’t there, but Caleb should!! Why is that?! I know I’m overthinking this, but I can’t help it! Good thing that Intensity is just a month away!! (Thank God!!) I might get some answers then.
Betrayal. That was what the world had taught him.
Just how black the souls of the rest really were. And how often others condemned innocent people for their own misdeeds, and rotten acts they couldn't stand about themselves. Because it was easier to see them in someone else and hate them for it than it was to hate yourself and go to the effort of tying to fix it. After all, people were less likely to see it in you if their attention was being diverted by the guilty pointing the finger of distraction toward those who couldn't even contemplarte the sins being cast upon them.
