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My Review:Title: Jarek (Dragons of Preor, #1)
Author: Erin Tate, Celia Kyle
Series: Dragons of Preor #1
Published by: audiOMG!
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Todd Mrozek, Mandy Lane
Pages: 175
Length: 4 hours and 34 minutes
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction
Source: Audible
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge, CC's Science Fiction vs Fantasy Bingo 2018
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon
My rating:
Blurb:What’s hotter than an alien with scales? An alien with wings and scales, not to mention a hot body.
At 457 Preor years old, Jarek sen Claron is a dragon ready for his final flight into the skies. This voyage to Earth as the War Master of the third fleet will be his final assignment. Once he has helped his fellow Preors secure human mates, he will return to Preor before the madness of loneliness overtakes his mind.
That all changes when he meets Melissa. Human Melissa with her sparkling eyes, bright smile, and body that would make any hot-blooded male drool. Unfortunately, she never registered as a Preor mate hopeful. No matter, the Knowing stretches between them and there is no way she can resist him. Until she does.
Jarek wishes to give her the choice to mate him, while everything inside him screams to take Melissa beneath his wing, now. No choosing necessary.
But should he draw her to his side when his enemies are circling? Many males do not believe the son of a Preor mass murderer deserves to have a mate. Can he survive the coming battles? Or will he die without tasting sweet Melissa’s lips?
Related to the UJAL series: The Ujal Volume One (Vados, Tave, Rhal) Erun Dashing Through the Stars
This book counts towards my Space square in the Science Fiction vs. Fantasy book bingo (#SFvsFBingo) being hosted by Curiosity Killed the Bookworm I have 10 books down on that thing, by far the most of all my challenges I think. And I’m sure I missed some that qualify because…laziness.
Anyway, I really like this audio story, which I didn’t think I would because of all the growly, alphaness. But the narrators did a great job of hitting both Jarek and Melissa personalities. Melissa was your typical female lead, resistant to her attraction and mating. She showed a strong backbone to be dealing with an alpha dragon shifter. And I liked how Jarek didn’t try to smother her or control her but rather listened to her argument and didn’t outright deny her. He tried to help her undertsand where he was coming from without being overbearing. For instance, a quote that stood out to me: “Just because I undertstand doesn’t mean I agree.”
I quite enjoyed the ‘knowing’. While instant mate bonds aren’t really my thing, I did like how they were able to navigate their backgrounds with it. It was a nice loophole that helped to clear up any misunderstandings due to lack of cultural knowledge without having to do too much info dump. They each had some hiccups in their history that kept them from going in whole hog with the mating but they were willing to work through them. I found their approach to the ‘knowing’ mature and relatable.
And the whole background was simple, to the point and easily understandable. I hate when we get too involved with a societies politics and some things get lost along the way. Preor needed mates, earth volunteered to participate in seeing if they were compatable. Some were for it, some were against it. Bada bing bada boom, great storyline. I’d listen to more of these books in the future, it was only about 4 hours so I could finihs one in a day, which is kinda my thing.
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