This was supposed to be a second chance in life. But she couldn’t stop thinking about the past and what she had left behind.
"Being abducted by aliens sounded so much like the title of a cheap sci-fi movie, and yet it had happened to her. That night, when she had decided she couldn’t take it any longer, the mocking, the loneliness and the feeling she had failed the only person that depended on her completely had become overwhelming, and that night she had decided to end it all.
She had left everything ready, no unfinished matters, no one to worry about her and surely no one to mourn her. And so, she had walked in the middle of the night, to the highest bridge she was able to find near the tiny room, she had been living in.
She walked out to the middle of the bridge un-spotted, or so she had thought . . ." Amazon
Just to be clear this series is about humanoid aliens who shift into Drogons not dragons, though there are some similarities between. This book has had mostly positive reviews and rightly so. It's also had a couple scathing reviews giving it only one star, which I thought was downright mean spirited.
I have read all of the Drogan series and have enjoyed every one of them. Right off the bat, it take a willing suspension of disbelief. We have lizard like humanoids stealing female from Earth to sell as slaves. Most of them are chosen because they are kind of loners and a little broken. The Drogans have a problem reproducing because of the dwindling birthrate of females of their species; so they are looking to other races to find females to mate with.
Asgar sets up a meet with the Slythonian slave traders and buys the human females who become soulmates for some of the Drogan males. Each book in the series chronicles one of the romances.
They are sweet and sexy and fun and sometimes poignant, especially Colborn.
One scathing review said " the heroine was so paranoid and subservient couldn't stand it. she was like a whiny child. She wouldn't say anything and if she did she grovelled all over the place. he was kept in a constant state of 'what did I do?' she misunderstood the slightest thing. makes me angry even thinking about her."
I didn't see it that way at all. I saw Gil Ra as someone broken who had been so beaten down by her family's rejection and life that she needed the love and compassion of a caring alien like Colborn. Part of the reason he found it hard to understand her was because he had never experienced the kind of rejection in his life that Gin Ra had. But he doesn't give up on her. All of the Drogan mates are caring, compassionate, loving, and sexy.
As for the one star reviewers, you obviously chose the wrong book for yourself. Instead of giving it a one star review and telling everyone not to buy it; return it an buy something else. It's not like the toaster you bought that didn't work out of the box. It's someones creation.
As alien romnces go, T.J. Quinn's Drogan series fits well in the genre.
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