Fury of Fire

Dragonfury, Book 1

By: Coreene Callahan

Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie

Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

A clandestine race of half-dragon, half-humans known as dragon-shifters lives among us. Bastian, leader of the Nightfury dragon clan, is sworn to protect humankind at all costs. For him, honor and duty always come first. When the clan dictates he take a human mate to sire a son, he falters, aware that for a human to birth a dragon-shifter she must die. Myst, the woman given into his care, is the most extraordinary he’s ever met, and though he can’t bear the thought of harming her, he is bound by duty.

Myst loves her life in the human world, but Bastian has captured her heart in an instant of electric connection. But Bastian and his warriors are in the middle of a deadly battle with the Razorback dragon-shifters, intent on killing every Nightfury clan member - and the humans they protect - the fate of their world and ours hangs in the balance. An extraordinary blend of action, fantasy, and steamy romance, Fury of Fire brings to life a dangerous new world intertwined with the survival of humanity, all while exploring the meaning of honor and the nature of true love.

©2012 Coreene Callahan (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Midnight Breed, only with dragons

If you read Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series, then you will recognize the similarity in this book. Instead of Vampires, we have Dragon half breeds. The story tended for drag along for the first half of the book, then by three fourths through, it sparked my interest. Unfortunately, there is no ending to this book, as the story is left in the air, for the next installment to build upon. I doubt that I will read the next book, as the story is an old concept that I truly love in the writings of Lara Adrian, and J R Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood. I will just wait for those sequels.

A little too detailed

What disappointed you about Fury of Fire?

There were too many details and repetitiveness. Got tired of hearing every thought about different things - how to escape, hate to hurt her - multiple times. The basis of the story sounded good but all the minute details kind of dragged the story down.

Dragonfuty

I enjoyed this book, kept me interest enough to purchase the second book. Good Narrator well done. :)

Interesting take on Dragons

It's a very unique storyline. My only real complaint is that there are times when the dragons seem physically weak (like when getting punched by a human) but other times they can survive acid. I totally enjoyed it enough to go for the next in the series though.

Oh Myst!

I loved the story and the tension throughout made for some excellent entertainment. But there were moments where Myst irked my nerves. Relax girl! Lol

I loved it.

Even the fifth or sixth time round.
Still waiting for more books in the series.

And . . . stop pausing!!

I enjoy this series. It's fresh and creative. I just wish the narrator wouldn't keep putting really long pauses after every "and". Okay, the author could use that sentence cadence less often, but that's her voice. Read through it like a person would think it or say it.

Amazing read!!!!

The Fury of fire was one of the best books I've heard in a long time.

A bit of a disappointment

Over the last couple of years I've really been getting into various shifter series. Nalini Singh, Thea Harrison and Suzanne Wright, along with a few others. This was the first big miss for me. Maybe it's just my own sexism in that female writers just tend to be better at writing erotica, but I'm ok with that. The story just didn't do it for me and the reader was not the right one for the book either. He made the voices of most of the characters sound, well, a little light in the loafers.

This is going to be one of the only series I've started that I see no chance of going on to read the entire series (including the entire psy-changeling series in under a year). Personally, I'd recommend one of the above authors if you're looking for a good shifter book (my personal favorite being Thea Harrison's Elder Race series) rather than spending your credits on this one.

Looong internal monologues

I think the author had a good idea here but I just wished that she had stayed away of the plot points that were like BDB. Doesn't it make sense for dragons to actually like the sun instead of being repelled by it? Also, the business of the energy and the meridian was so freaking complicated that I had problems keeping things straight. I also didn't get why the women died during the birth and how Myst thought she could have helped Caroline.

But besides the plot holes, my main problem with the book were the looong internal monologues. Several characters would just go on and on and on about things that were unimportant while important plot points that could have created tension weren't even addressed. Worse, some things seemed to have been communicated by osmosis: when did Bastian told Myst that Gregor was one of them? One moment she didn't know and the next she did.

The narration was good but not outstanding. Lots of the men sounded alike and the women were just OK but hey, at least the men sounded manly.

I'm still in the fence as to whether to read the second book in the series because even though I had problems with this book, I think the author has something. Oh well, I'll decide later whether to continue or not.