Title: Human Sacrifice
Series: Dragon Hearts, # 1
Author: Marcy Jacks
Genre: Fantasy/ Paranormal/ Shape-shifter
Length: Novella (121 pages)
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc. (January 17th, 2015)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 Hearts
Blurb: Adam Rivers is about to be sacrificed to the bloodthirsty dragons for the crime of not paying his debts.
Instead of being eaten alive, he wakes up as he’s being touched in the most wonderful way he can imagine. Someone he knows, someone familiar, is on top of him, loving him, and claims that Adam belongs to him. Adam, not knowing what is happening, but just happy to be alive, willingly gives in.
His new lover is the very dragon who spirited him away. Novik Gray claims to love and adore Adam, and that he will do anything to protect him. Adam recalls saving Novik’s life ten years earlier, but is Novik simply confusing gratitude with love?
All Adam knows is that he wants to stay by the man’s side, but when a friend is put in danger, Adam will be forced to test just how much Novik truly claims to love him.
ISBN: 978-1-63258-807-4
Purchase Link: http://www.bookstrand.com/human-sacrifice
Reviewer: Leigh
Review: Adam and his best friend Jason are tied up to be sacrificed to the local dragons. There dragons come for them and Adam somehow wakes up in a comfortable bed being pleasured by a handsome man with familiar eyes. Thinking he was now a slave, Adam doesn’t question things. Afterward, Adam learns the man is a dragon that he saved from dying ten years ago, and that Novik wants him as his mate.
Novik has wanted Adam for ten years. When he sees Adam is to be sacrificed, he takes the chance to claim Adam as his own. Adam is not sure about being a mate of a dragon warrior at first but he is willing to learn. However, he does not get that he is an equal among the dragons now, even if some of the dragon disagree. Both Adam and Novik have adjustments they need to make so their mating works.
Marcy Jacks has another dragon series going. This one is different enough that I did not feel like I was reading the same series. The dragons are physically different for one, and a few other things. I enjoyed this different take on the dragons in this series. The writing was good as I except from Marcy. It was engaging and entertaining. The sex scenes were hot and not overly gratuitous. Both MCs are easy to like and made me want their mating to work.
The story does end a little open-ended so I look forward to reading more in the series. There are several secondary characters that I would be interested in reading more about.
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