The Diabolical Dragon

De: Marcus Sloss

Narrado por: Jeremiah Culpepper, Kenna Faelynn

Trick the humans, steal the gold, gain the power, achieve god-like status. The motivations of a Diabolical Dragon.

Orion's unknown father...yeah, that shitty guy was a fey dragon. When Orion matures into a man, he spends a day in the snow transforming into a warehouse-sized dragon. Now he's hunted. Vile humans want to adorn his head as a trophy in their halls. Except, instead of letting the humans hound him. Orion blends in, swapping between dragon and human to carry out his diabolical plans.

Warning—This novella is not for the faint of heart. It contains a bad guy...an actual villain. Does he have motivations? Sure, but he still is the Diabolical Dragon. Contains a magical fantasy setting where men use dowries for their daughters, monster fey are considered scum, and nobility can do just about anything they want if they have enough gold.

©2021 Marcus Sloss (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

The Title Says it all

The MC really is a Diabolical Dragon. Still a great book,, MC and his closest are fun and interesting. i look forawrd to seeing where it goes next.

Great Story of A Diabolical Villan

Now this is a story about a Villan I can support. Being a dragon our MC is understandably not constrained by human morals. Yet he does maintain a sense of right and wrong all while being a Diabolical Villan. He has his own set of morals that he follows. And while he does sell people into slavery, he only does so when his lovers abandon him and his "benevolence" leaving him feeling slightly betrayed. Understandable, given he, as a dragon, is a hoarder and does not approve of letting his "possessions" go without benefit to him.

Many people might see this MC as pure Evil but I think the benevolence he shows his own people is what is the most telling in that regards. His people gradually flourish while almost every other nation around his has considerable trouble with some being destroyed from within and others from invasion. But the people under his thumb have mostly happy productive lives.

Can you really call that evil? Diabolical absolutely. But Evil... I don't think so.

hilariously entertaining

a nice change from typical good guy story. a fun insight into the daily life of what a shape shifting dragon does, which is what ever he wants to do. it had me rolling at some of the things he puts humans through, that ironically, we do to our selves. highly recommended especially if you want an out of the box story plot

Marcus does it again

What can I say? I am a fan of Marcus's writing, was a little unsure of the narrators at first because I have never heard them before but they quickly grow on you.

overall an enjoyable story.

good

good not great but not a bad story. wonder if there will be more love to see what next

differently awesome

this book is not typical let's make a better world story it is not but it is pretty awesome

low key awesomeness

subtle charge in out look. maybe spoiler alert. # dragon playing human. I highly appreciate to change. Bad guy...mmmm not not so bad dragon. my absolute only con.... female voice needs a little more range. But over all.... timeliness in the story is ehhhh... but I only paused it for sleep. Definitely different from the stereotypes. But if book 2 comes out im gonna buy it. I want to know more about Gloria... wink wink.

Woah

Not one of the "good guys" for sure, yet an excellent entertaining story. Narration is excellent.

Expected better

I have several of Marcus’ books and truly enjoyed just about all of them but this one is somewhat lacking. It’s like he cobbled together pieces of the layouts of what should have been four epic books into one massively time jumping and sometimes confusing one that often eludes to portions of the plot line that was left out or makes one think that this is the second, third or addendum to another book.

I would love to see this get broken up into more books that are better fleshed out because some of the story line that is missing sounds extremely interesting.

gets better and better

get past the first 15 minutes, if gets much better, the story builds and grows into a flourishing series(i hope there will be more)