When shadow creatures sent by an evil wizard invade and kill her father and betrothed on her wedding day Eleri is presumed dead by her surviving mother and sister. However, she was saved by the very beast they ran from, Carwin. Carwin long ago made a bargain with a goddess to be able to transform into a dragon to avenge the deaths of his family. When he initially failed the goddess transformed him to stole for 300 years as punishment until Eleri's blood freed him. Together they will go to forgotten lands to free the world from this menace and along the way they may get everything they never hoped to dream for.
This was an impulse read from the Libby app when I was out of audiobooks. Still am out of audiobooks, but Libby always has plenty of options to choose from when I don't have Indie Author reads pending. My other Indie Author lists are long, but one can never have too many books to read!
Based on the title I had some expectations as a seasoned paranormal romance reader. There would be a dragon. The dragon would be a shifter. The dragon would have a mate. The mate would be stolen. There is a dragon. He is not a traditional shifter. He is primarily in the dragon form and can only become human with the use of a pendant provided by the goddess. The dragon's mate is never once called a mate within the book. In fact he isn't even possessive of her like most dragon shifters. He spends half the book trying to push her away from him. Eleri is not stolen. She comes to a dragon statue with her family pleading from a life threatening wound after her husband to be and father is killed. No one takes her away. Probably a spoiler, which I generally try to avoid, but the title doesn't fit the book.
I didn't enjoy this as much as I do a lot of paranormal romances. I wasn't drawn into it and it felt like the author spent more time trying to make Eleri both weak and independent at the same time. It was a but annoying. I didn't really have a favorite character in the book.
This is the first book I have read by Jade White and if this is any indication of her talents and style I will not be reading any more.
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