Dragonsworn

Dark-Hunter, Book #26

By Sherrilyn Kenyon

ISBN# 9781250102652

Author’s Website:  sherrilynkenyon.com

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi

Review

Falcyn was the first of the drakomai and has seen too much in his solitary life.  He has seen all the horrors that humans have done to his siblings.  He prefers to hang out on his island then to have to deal with anyone.  He just waits for the human race to be eradicated.

However, the worst done to him, was done by his own brother.  Max cursed his son, Maddor, who was taken into a realm that Falcyn couldn’t get into.  He has never even met his son, who surely hates him now.  Morgen keeps Maddor leashed as her own personal whipping boy and there is nothing Falcyn can do to save him. 

Falcyn keeps his grandson close now.  Everyone thinks they are brothers, but Blaise is all that Falcyn has left.  All that he holds dear.

Apollo is up to his same old tricks and has now unleashed a new plague on the apollites to finally wipe them out.  His granddaughter Medea has come to sanctuary to find her brother, Urian, to help her find a way to save her people.  Urian isn’t the only thing she finds though, she also finds the dragon that could have the key, or dragonstone, that could save them all.  If she can convince him to help, that is.

However, before she can even ask, they are transported to a fae realm.  They must lean on each other, and the new friends they meet along the way, for survival and to find their way back home.

Falcyn and Medea learn just how similar the two of them are.  Together they are a force to be reckoned with and they are ready to take on the world.  To avenge the things, they have lost and to get back the things they still can.  Including one snarly dragon that has no reason to trust anyone, let alone his father he never knew.

This was overall an okay read.  Most of the book did take place with the characters trapped in a fae realm, which was a bit obnoxious.  This novel was fine, but I didn’t feel it really delved too deeply into anything.  We didn’t really get to know Falcyn and Medea.  Everything we learned seemed superficial, at best.

We got to watch Falcyn’s cold dead heart melt and start beating once again.  It was good to see him finally find where he belongs and not to be so alone any longer.  It was a complete bonus for his dragonswan to be so fierce.  She was willing to risk her own life for him to have a chance to be with his son that was so cruelly kept from him.

I really wish there had a bit more in this book though.  I was expecting some kind of resolution between Falcyn and Max.  Something that would show us why Max truly did what he did and for the brothers to be able to move forward as a family.  And, of course, I wanted to see Falcyn get to know his son and be the father he never got to be.  And, of course Falcyn’s new dragonswan has babies on the brain as well.  I just wanted more happily-ever-after in the epilogue than we got.  At least it wasn’t a repeat of events like the last book was.