Meanwhile, Keita the Viper has a plan to pull off a daring plan to rescue the children of Annwyl and Talaith from what seems like a dire plot, and she drags, among other suckers, our heroine Rhona the Fearless and Vigholf the Abhorrent. The Iron Dragons have our heroes and heroines caught in a pincer movement, so it is not a good time for Annwyl to mysteriously disappear from camp one fine day. Fearghus the Destroyer leads the troops that congregate in Euphrasia to face Overlord Thracius’s troops while his mate, Annwyl, leads the troops that will meet the troops of the Overlord’s general Lord Laudaricus Parthenius in the Western Mountains. So, when we begin, it’s been a few years and our ensemble cast have mostly been separated. The Iron Dragons have the numbers, the strategy, and the troops, and it is most unfortunate that they lack the glorious beautiful berserk mode of our heroes and heroines. Like the Picts, our alliance is clumsy, prone to infighting, and lacking in order, but they do make up for their many lacks with their savagery and loyalty to their own kind. It’s like… I don’t know, the Picts against the Romans, I guess. In this one, the fire dragons of the South and the lightning dragons of the North have finally formed an uneasy alliance to fight off the vanguard of the troops of the Iron Dragons.

However, these characters all have a role to play, and The Dragon Who Loved Me is actually the culmination of the story arc that has been building in the last three books.

And then we have Breena, who is one of Rhona’s younger sisters, and Brannie, who is… wait, just who is Brannie related to again? You see what I mean? There is a huge cast here, and even I, who have read all the books in this series, occasionally have a hard time remembering who is who. For example, our heroine is Rhona, the Queen of the Southland Dragons is Rhiannon, and Rhianwen is the daughter of Talaith and Briec. You can try if you are new to the whole thing, but it won’t be easy.įor one, there are many characters with similar-sounding names. The series has slowly morphed from more conventional romantic tales to an ensemble fantasy comedy romp that just happens to feature romance, so this is one book that should not be read by folks new to the series. The Dragon Who Loved Me is the fifth book in GA Aiken’s Dragon Kin series.

The dragon who loved me by ga aiken