What sets this one apart from most of the books in the recent series is that the story is mostly about a group of characters working together, not just a man and a woman who start hating each other but are also in lust with each other thrown together for some reason, with an end fight between a lot of people. So while the banter between the characters, particularly the male ones, is the same copy-paste casually sexist ridiculous egotistic bs you see in most of Kenyon's Dark-Hunter books (e.g., "I'm a sarcastic asshole and all my male friends and family try and fail to kill me, change up descriptors"), the teamwork aspect in the story is pretty enjoyable. There aren't many Dark-Hunter stories where women who aren't related to each other work together without enmity or build friendships with each other, at least during the story and not during a time skip of some kind. It was so nice to see women making friends with each other - and not just because they both cared about the same guy! I knew catfights weren't your only go-to, Kenyon!

Although it was a bit odd, considering how Medea was treating Nick only a short while ago, but well... Character whiplash and plot amnesia are also typical of the Dark-Hunter books. And Nick's not even really in this book anyway, even if he does get mentioned a couple times, so who cares about him, amiright? - probably something that went through Kenyon/her editor's head at one point, maybe.

And is this... the first Dark-Hunter book to have a canonically non-evil gay character? -scrutinizes book heavily- I mean... it's skirting things, but well. Wow. I mean yeah, he's randomly sexually assaulted by a woman for no apparent reason because that's apparently Kenyon's go-to for LGBTQA stuff, but well... progress in the Dark-Hunter series...? -sighs heavily- Bet he dies in the next couple books anyway. But it's okay! Kenyon's clearly setting up a future book by introducing a new(?) minor villain character who's bi/pan and all set for her typical Dark-Hunter redemption storyline, so that's all right! We'll keep our Dark-Hunter quotas a-okay!

There are good banter moments, which help the story. Characters making light fun of each other, showing off their powers, talking about the environment, theorizing about politics and lore... Even some of the generic Kenyon-trademarked 'lol I'm so loony look at this crazy thing I just said' humor is back, and it made me smile. Haven't seen anything in these books do that since like the second "Chronicles of Nick" book came out. Could we just have more of that and less "people are always trying to kill me because I'm ass" and "you're such a pussy" and "she's a bitch" in re: women comments? Please? And more characters for the protagonists to interact with. Teamwork is clearly not Kenyon's forte because there are apparently only two kinds of male relationships she can write (I'd die for you v. Let's out-asshole each other verbally), but this was a good start. Roll with it. And less of the infodumps. Jeez. I still like the mythology of this universe but this is the first time I've felt the need to use index cards to keep track of what was going on. ( )

Dragonsworn
By Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark-Hunter #21/Hunter Legends (First I've heard of this one)/Lords of Avalon #/Were-Hunter #

Another great adventure by Sherrilyn Kenyon! This time she paired a dragon named Falcyn with a daimon named Medea who, inadvertently, get sucked into another realm along with her sort of kind of brother Urian and his grandson Blaise who thinks he is his brother.

Medea needs Falcyn's dragonstone to heal her people from a disease her grandfather Apollo, the god, brought down upon them. Morgen Le Fey, the evil leader of Camelot and Apollo also want the stone so they keep sending their minions after them and setting traps to try to steal it.

I'm not sure I like the Lords of Avalon spin on this series because it just complicates an already complex storyline and I get a little lost. I have read all of this author's series except for the Lords of Avalon series which was her first series she ever wrote under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor. I read the first one but really didn't like it that much so I never read the rest. I'm glad I did read that first one though because it helped me understand some of the references in this book.
I won't put spoilers in but there was a revelation in this book which will affect Urian but I'm not sure it will be a good thing.

There are still a lot of characters who need their story told like Jared, Savitar and my favorite Jaden just to name a few.

I can't wait for the next one.

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Falcyn is the first Dragon, God of War Veles. Medea is a daimon, demigod, part demon. While this is their story, there's a lot of side characters getting attention for future stories. Urian, Blaise/Brogan, Falcyn's son and grandson, brothers and sister. Story was running all over the place, but I did like these two together. Also so many similar names got confusing at times, had to back track a lot.
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They're not bad stories but they could be better. I feel like I've read this one before, and it is possible I have, but the story follows a well-trodden path. Boy meets girl, boy and girl almost kill each other over well-worn emnity and discover that actually they kinda like each other and the pants feelings are strong with both of them.

It kept me reading and I had a hard time putting it down, so that's a bonus but I was more curious than fully behind the relationships. The interplay between the various characters that showed up in the story was what really engaged me. ( )

Just started. Doesn't bode well when they use HUGE margins. Turned out not bad, despite the huge margins. Falcyn and Medea's story. He's a dragon and she's a Daimon. Most of the true long storyline comes out in the last few pages, of course. Easy reading for the most part. Though I could only read a few pages each night. ( )