A review by thenovellush
Dragonsworn by Sherrilyn Kenyon

3.0

So on the one hand, there wasn't a massive rehash in the middle of this book, and there were several laugh-out-loud moments, on the other hand there was HELLA insta-love, ("Your tragic backstory and general badassery matches my tragic backstory and bloodthirstiness. I LOVE YOU!") the two badass MCs were cinnamon rolls, and all of the male characters are beginning to sound alike, just a slight difference in tragic parentage with the same exact tone and sense of humor to their dialogue. Stryker sounds like Styxx, sounds like Falcyn, sounds like Illarian, sounds like Zarek. All supposed to be amongst the baddest of the bad and all full of lines like "Boy, you don't want none of this. I'll eat your bones for breakfast." It's not necessarily what they say, it's HOW they say it.

There was a lot of "SURPRISE, she ain't dead!" going on in this book. (No seriously. A lot.) and a lot of characters being pulled into the story from all over the place. So now there are characters from a world the author wrote under a totally different pen name. That won't confuse people AT ALL. Why not leave the world's separate? Now everything is starting to get muddied. I feel like Nykyrian Quiakides and the Sentella are gonna pop over from the League series next.