reviewed by
Carol Green
Nineva Morrow has dreams. Dreams of a knight that end with a dragon burning her to death. She can feel every sensation and knows without doubt that this is her destiny as the twenty-first Avatar of the goddess Semira. One day she performs a small feat of magic, the healing of a dog she hit with her car, and it’s enough to lead the evil Sidhe King to her and her parents. See Ansgar wants her dead so there is no chance of the prophecy coming true. Oh, did I forget to mention the prophecy that the twenty-first Avatar of Semira will free the Goddess and be the downfall of the evil forces wanting to take over both Mortal Earth and the Mageverse Earth where the Sidhe, dragons and Arthur and his companions live now?
Kel is a Knight of Arthur’s Round Table and a blue dragon. A dragon who spent the last fifteen hundred years locked in a sword. The blue dragon of Nineva’s nightmares. However, the more this pair gets involved with each other, the more Kel is sure he could never burn Nineva to death. For the one who walks both worlds, dragon and human, is falling for the Avatar of the goddess. In addition, Kel has been sent by his own god, Cachamwri to protect Nineva and help her save the goddess who is trapped in a sword and weakening. So how could he possibly harm her?
I came to this book having read none of the ones preceding it. I am now a major fan and am starting back at the beginning and acquiring all of them so I can read them in order, which I would recommend. This book stands alone, but you’ll understand the universe Ms. Knight has created better if you read them all. For you see in these books, Arthur and his Knights are Vampires and females are witches and Merlin is no wizened old man.
I loved this book. The universe is complete and complex. The story is rich and full of power, passion, and the utter sense of defeat. All seems to be lost, Kel and Nineva are resigned to their fate, and I thought I might have to throw the book across the room, but hang on, I didn’t and you won’t either. The sensuality level is hot, very hot and so this might not be for younger readers, but for adults who aren’t offended by descriptions of sex it’s perfect. Read this. Read them all. They’re keepers and I can’t wait for the next one to come out.
