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Vyr, son of the famous blue dragon Damon Daye, is the reviled and extremely dangerous red dragon. Due to many exciting events which I missed as I read this out of order but which are helpfully recapped in this volume, he is currently separated from his beloved crew and imprisoned in a hellhole prison for worst-of-the-worst shifters; I feel that it's not really a spoiler to say that illegal and immoral experimentation is also going on.
He is SUFFERING and DYING and they are in the process of KILLING HIS DRAGON, an excruciating process after which shifters tend to commit suicide. Because of this, one of his eyes is a DEAD DRAGON EYE. He's in solitary confinement IN THE DARK. But he is voluntarily not breaking out, which he absolutely has the power to do, because to do so would harm his friends, make all shifters look bad, oh yeah and also DESTROY THE ENTIRE WORLD because he can't control his dragon.
Enter Riyah, a telekinetic telepathic psychic therapist who has been recruited by Vyr's mom to pose as a prison counselor and so find out what's really going on in there, save his life, and possibly break him out. She is horrified by prison conditions and what they're doing to Vyr specifically. They can't speak freely because they're constantly monitored, but since she's telepathic they can have secret conversations, including when she's back home. This leads to one of Joyce's hottest sex scenes, conducted entirely long-distance. This is all much less objectionable than would normally be the case as they both know she's not really his therapist.
Typical Joyce characters, made extra fun by Riyah's powers and almost the entire romance occurring sub rosa while the hero is in prison.
Vyr's inability to control his dragon has an unexpected outcome. ( Read more... )
He is SUFFERING and DYING and they are in the process of KILLING HIS DRAGON, an excruciating process after which shifters tend to commit suicide. Because of this, one of his eyes is a DEAD DRAGON EYE. He's in solitary confinement IN THE DARK. But he is voluntarily not breaking out, which he absolutely has the power to do, because to do so would harm his friends, make all shifters look bad, oh yeah and also DESTROY THE ENTIRE WORLD because he can't control his dragon.
Enter Riyah, a telekinetic telepathic psychic therapist who has been recruited by Vyr's mom to pose as a prison counselor and so find out what's really going on in there, save his life, and possibly break him out. She is horrified by prison conditions and what they're doing to Vyr specifically. They can't speak freely because they're constantly monitored, but since she's telepathic they can have secret conversations, including when she's back home. This leads to one of Joyce's hottest sex scenes, conducted entirely long-distance. This is all much less objectionable than would normally be the case as they both know she's not really his therapist.
Typical Joyce characters, made extra fun by Riyah's powers and almost the entire romance occurring sub rosa while the hero is in prison.
Vyr's inability to control his dragon has an unexpected outcome. ( Read more... )
