Book Review | Dragon On Top - G.A. Aiken
/I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Shelly Laurenston aka G.A Aiken is one of my favourite writers.
If you’ve never read any of the books that she’s written under her pseudonym G.A Aiken, you’re missing out. Heck if you’ve never read any of her books you’re missing out. I find the plot and the characters to to be well developed.
Any who lets get to the book review.
The main characters in this book are Bram the merciful who is a peacemaker and Ghleanna the Decimator who is a Captain in the dragon army. Ghleanna is tasked with protecting Bram as he makes his way to the Sand Dragon’s territory to get a peace treaty signed.
Favourite Part (s):
- When Bram and Ghleanna are leaving the water dragon’s territory, as they are making their good-byes Ghleanna kills Kleitos, a dragon who had tortured Bram at one point. She does it cleanly and without any fanfare. Just a sword to his stomach and he was done for. It was oddly satisfying to read this scene in the book. Though I kinda wish that she killed him by slicing his head off. No worries though, she kills another bad guy that way. She fights with two axes and used both of them to separate his head from his body again in another clean movement.
- When Bram and Ghleanna make it back to the surface after leaving the water dragon’s kingdom, everyone is preparing to get back to the task at hand- bring Bram safety to the Sand dragon’s territory, when Bram puts a halt to it by saying that they need to go after Feoras. He nearly killed Ghleanna and is a traitor. Everyone is surprised because Bram is supposed to be merciful, Bram says he his the merciful one but that there are limits to his mercifulness.
Favourite Quote or Line:
Back to the water dragon kingdom we go. This is the closing scene of Chapter 16, after Ghleanna kills Kleitos. This conversation is between Bram and Ghleanna.
“I told you that Kleitos was not to be touched. You said you understood.”
“And I did. I understood that you wanted me to leave Kleitos be. I never said I would. Never agreed to that.”
“Gods,” he sighed in awe, “my father will adore you.”
I liked his reaction to her response, not sure why but it just gets me in the feels you know.
What Happened?:
- Why did the dragon traitors not want the treaty signed. If they were all apart of the Queen’s army wouldn’t it make sense for her to have more territory and a greater power base. That part of the puzzle is missing for me, I don’t understand their why or what seems to be their lack of one.
Apart from this one question there really aren’t any gaps in the story, nothing that leaves me scratching my head or thinking what about….?
Looking forward to:
I’ve already read the next two books in the series Feel the Burn and Light My Fire, though I’m planning to re-read them has it as been a little while since I read them. There is a newer book that I haven’t read yet, A Tale of Two Dragons.
Edit: Turns out I've already read this book. Le sigh, so there are no upcoming books as yet. I'm hopeful though.
Final Thoughts:
Well from my gushing at the beginning of this post, I’m sure you know that I enjoyed reading this book, my only complaint is that the book was too short. I wanted to read some more. This book was part of an anthology so that probably accounts for why it was a bit shorter in length than the other books in this series.
As I’ve said before, if you do have the opportunity I think you should pick up one of these books. There is a bit of swearing but not too much that it becomes tedious and takes away from the story and there is some blood but their warriors so it’s to be expected.
