The Distressing Damsel: Book 2 of the Dragon Kin [Paperback]

Shelly Laurenston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2006

Can a powerless witch find happiness with an arrogant, impatient dragon? If the dragon has his way, she sure as hell will. Book 2 in the award-winning Dragon Kin series! Talaith's life has never been easy. A goddess has forced her into servitude. Her husband despises her. And all those in her tiny village fear her. But just when she doesn't think her life can get any worse, she's pulled from her bed one morning to be burned at the stake for being a witch. What she never counted on was a terrifying silver dragon deciding to rescue her. Briec the Mighty didn't really know what to do with a human female. Especially this one. Chatty and a bit of a complainer, he doesn't understand why she can't simply admit to herself that she wants him. Who wouldn't? He was Briec the Mighty after all. Females fought to spend the night in his arms. But this one tiny woman with her many secrets and her annoying habit of referring to him as "arrogant" has turned his simple dragon life upside down. WARNING: This story contains explicit monogamous sex and graphic violence!

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About the Author

Subtle, demure, delicate Shelly Laurenston is a 2005 EPPIE Award Winner and 2004 CAPA Winner. A misplaced New Yorker trapped in Los Angeles, Shelly is constantly plotting and scheming her way back to civilization-think "Escape From New York." When she isn't playing video games, polishing her brass knuckles, or writing, she's trying to keep her dog, Maximus Psychotixus, from turning the local cat population into Happy Meals. Shelly is also the author of the award-winning TO CHALLENGE A DRAGON as well as PACK CHALLENGE, GO FETCH!, HERE KITTY, KITTY! and A PRIDE CHRISTMAS IN BROOKLYN. She also has her first print book out now, MAGNUS HEAT. All her books are available at Triskelion Publishing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 293 pages
• Publisher: Samhain Publishing (August 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159998220X
• ISBN-13: 978-1599982205
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,058,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprised...it was actually good, November 16, 2006

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Readsalot (Dakar) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Distressing Damsel: Book 2 of the Dragon Kin (Paperback)

I bought this as an ebook (with a grain of salt) as I was bored and just wanted something to read. After reading the blurbs I figured it might be okay but was skeptical...especially about the possibility of it being too hard core with the sensuality for my taste. Lo and behold, I was pleasantly surprised. It was actually pretty good.

The characters were well drawn out, unique, and likable. (Had me laughing out loud) The plot was solid and the fantasy realm was believable ... Sword and sorcerer kind of romantic adventure with a lot of comic relief thrown in to make it interesting - Only in this adventure the fire-breathing dragons are the heros.

There's a mouthy, untrained witch who is kidnapped from her home country, trained as a deadly assassin and forced to do the bidding of a goddess she never worshipped. Her daughter, who she hasn't actually seen in years, is held as ransom against her good behavior. Add the husband who tries to burn her alive, the dragon who rescues her and wants to keep her, his womanizing voyeur dragon brother, the goddess who has some mysterious plot, the dragon god who has a nefarious breeding scheme and requires her skin so he can commit murder, the warrior queen who makes Attila the Hun look like the guy next door and her husband Fearghus the Destroyer (also a dragon), a takeover plot, an aphrodisiac moon, etc., etc. and you have a pretty exciting read. Not too heavy on the intellectual scale but really fun.

The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the author uses graphic wording in the bedroom scenes that really isn't necessary. For instance she uses the "f" word, calls a man's genitalia a "c...k", and similar such for the female anatomy. It's as if she is being purposely vulgar when the story is actually good enough to stand on its own without all of that.

I'm looking forward to the first story of the warrior queen and her dragon husband. He's this huge mighty dragon but when she found out that he knocked her up.... and the third story of Gwenvael, the dragon womanizer and voyeur who cracked me up when he woke up suddenly screaming "I swear I never touched her!"

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SEXY AND FUNNY LOVED IT, August 27, 2006

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T. rohrig (OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Distressing Damsel: Book 2 of the Dragon Kin (Paperback)

THIS IS MY FIRST BOOK BY THIS WRITER, IT WAS AWESOME SO FUNNY AN GREAT LOVE SCENES, I LOVED IT SHE WILL BE ADDED TO MY LIST OF GREAT WRITERS , LIKE LORA LEIGH,JAID BLACK, SHERRLYN KENYON, CHRISTINE FEEHAN, KAREN MARIE MONING, THE ONLY THING THAT SUCKS IS THIS WAS PART 2 OF DRAGON KIN STORIES AN PART ONE IS NOT IN PRINT YET, I HOPE SHE CONTINUES WITH ALL OF THE DRAGONS FINDING MATES, I WILL BY EVERYTHING SHE WRITES, GREAT STORY, HAVEN'T BEEN THIS EXCITED ABOUT A SERIES OF BOOKS IN FOREVER.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FYI: Look for reprints under name G.A. Aiken, August 22, 2008

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Melanie C. Duncan "@MelanieCDuncan" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Distressing Damsel: Book 2 of the Dragon Kin (Paperback)

Shelly Laurenston is reprinting this series under the name "G.A. Aiken". The first book will be retitled Dragon Actually (release date Sept. 2008), and the second book, which should be this one, will be About a Dragon (release date Dec. 2008).