Playing with Fire

Silver Dragons, Book 1

De: Katie MacAlister

Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat

Gabriel Tauhou, the leader of the silver dragons, can't take his eyes of May Northcott - not even when May, who has the unique talent of being able to hide in the shadows, has slipped from everyone else's sights.

May, however, has little time for Gabriel - not when she's hiding from the Otherworld law, hunting down a blackmailer, and trying to avoid a demon lord's demands. But her ability to withstand Gabriel's fire marks her as his mate, and he has no intention of letting her disappear into the darkness she seems to prefer.

May is ordered to steal one of Gabriel's treasures - an immensely important relic of all dragonkin - and he must decide which to protect: his love or his dragons.

©2008 Marthe Arends (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC

Warning: No ending

When I buy a book in a series, I expect each book to be a complete book with a beginning and an ending and some teasers to make me want to buy the next book. I do not like when book finishes in a cliffhanger with nothing resolved. This book is such a book, and if you don't plan on buying book 2 from the get-go, don't bother with this one. I wish I hadn't.

The book itself is funny and entertaining. It does have characters in it from the Aisling Grey: Guardian series, and I haven't read those, so I felt a little lost. So while this book says it's the first in a series, it doesn't really "feel" that way. Situations are mentioned and characters are involved in this book in a big way, and I felt I was missing out on a lot of the back story. By far though the worst part of the book is the ending, which isn't an ending at all.

After reading this book, I felt like I needed to read all of the Aisling Grey: Guardian books and the 2nd book in the Silver Dragon series just to get an idea of whether I like this one or not. I usually do follow through with a series I enjoy, but I won't this time, mainly because I resent feeling as if I'm being forced to read them.

Twins and Dragons

Awesome read fast paced lots of action and awesome characters loved the storyline and awesome read

Wow! Exciting book and great ending.

I don’t think that Cy was hurt much by giving up her common sense to create her doppelgänger (May). I don’t think that she had much to begin with or she NEVER would have slept with a demon lord. May definitely had a lot more common sense than was given my Cyrene. Unfortunately she never should have kept secrets from her mate because they always end up biting you in the end.
The end is completely hanging out there until the next book.

May meets Gabriel

Life as a doppelgänger is never simple or easy for May Northcutt. Watching out for her twin Cyrene, the Naiad; being forced to serve the demon lord Magoth; and life just gets more complicated when May finds out she is a Wyvern's mate.
For the first time in 6 books, Rosenblat's narration is only 1 step off excellent: Cyrene is pronounced psi-rene Not psi-ree-nee

Great Story - horrible narration!

Would you consider the audio edition of Playing with Fire to be better than the print version?

I love reading this book - however listening to it was a horrible experience - all of Barbara Rosenblat's characters sound the same in the books she narrates and the different voices she uses for the characters just aren't that different so you can't really tell which character is doing what in the narration

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Barbara Rosenblat?

Joyce Bean or Susan Ericksen would be good choices

Any additional comments?

I'll stick to reading this series as long as Barbara Rosenblat is the narrator which is sad considering I love audiobooks so much - I've already stopped listening to another series because of this narrator now it looks like I'm stopping another series because of this narrator