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Fire in His Blood by Ruby Dixon

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katiekeske's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? No

3.0

I was excited to read this because I enjoy Ruby's other series, but this one was disappointing in comparison. The dragons and the mystery surrounding them was interesting, but I didn't like the relationship dynamics of the couple. I also didn't like how bleak the world is described and how the only thing that women are apparently good for is sex (lots of mentions of violence and whoring of women by the humans).

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drealovesbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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smuttymcbookface's review against another edition

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adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

Coming from Ice Planet Barbarians, I felt like I was ideal candidate for Fire in his Blood. Unfortunately, it just didn't work for me.

I found that the plot was very slow, and the world building didn't go beyond "a rift opened in the sky and sucked us all through." Maybe the rift will be explained more in the future? And I get that only so much can happen when a lot of the book is them trapped in the top floor of an old skyscraper, but I've read books with forced proximity for the majority of the plot that I did not find dull.

Add on to that, I did not like the FMC at all. I get that she was all survivor instincts, considering everything through, but I just did not find her likeable. Particularly when

she was genuinely considered yeeting her "best friend" off the back of a dragon; her friend who has a broken arm and likely fractured ribs because she tried to help FMCs sister out.

Also, fair warning that there was more non/dub con in this than IPB (which I didn't mind).

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tostita's review

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adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.75

I was drawn into the post-apocalyptic world that's set up here and I could identify with the main female character even if I didn't always appreciate her choices, but I did not care for the male main character. He really felt like an animal and not a person at the beginning of the story, and even by the end he was not a person I would care to spend any time with. The consent issues are numerous. This is probably my least favorite book in this series.

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kb33's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

This was half smut in a book that really needed more plot. Claudia lives on earth after it’s been flooded with violent, destructive, murdering dragons, and lives inside Fort Dallas. And we know from the synopsis that she falls in love with a dragon and wants to save her sister and her best friend, but there isn’t much more to it than that. Claudia doesn’t even ask Kael why the dragons came. And she’s so hypnotized by good d that she doesn’t ask about her injured, kidnapped friend for a week. That’s the book in a sentence. A woman gets hypnotized by good dragon d.

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torilovesheas's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5 ⭐️

Well. I’m finally doing to dragons. And while this is pretty different than any other Ruby Dixon book, it still had so many of the elements I love to see in her stories: obsessed MMC, humor and levity mixed in with the seriousness, and unique sci-fi worldbuilding that’s equal parts fascinating and easy for my pea brain to understand.

A post apocalyptic earth (which we saw in Icehome!) overrun by dragons that have pretty much destroyed everything isn’t your typical romance set up. But if I love anything, it’s gritty post apocalyptic romance settings. Claudia has pretty much gotten the shit end of the stick with life, even in an absolutely hell hole world, so when she’s sacrificed to a dragon by really god awful military dudes, it’s just one more thing heaped on to her.

Obviously this is RD, so Kael just wants to love her and care for her but between the language barrier and her desperate desire to return for her sister and bestie, Claudia is a bit of a pain in the ass. At least a pain in MY ass. Kael is a smitten kitten, burning cows for her meals and finding her lakes to bathe in like a gent. Plus everytime he calls her Claud-ah, I laughed like a hyena. What a dork.

But Claudia is one of those characters that frustrates me. I understood her desire to return for her sister and best friend to save them but she refuses to use the one weapon in her arsenal the humans can’t destroy: Kael. There’s a good chunk of the book with her lamenting her lot instead of USING this devoted dragon to fuck up the city’s shit.

If this wasn’t an author I love and trust, I probably wouldn’t continue the series, but much like Hannah and Bridget from Icehome and Liz from IPB, I’m going to lump Claudia in with the rest of Ruby’s “lovable pain in the ass crew” and go to the next one, which is Claud-ah’s bestie’s book and I am INTRIGUED.

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