This was a fun series that I can wholeheartedly recommend. I love the friendships that unfold over the series as Annwyl reigns, as their family expands in unexpected ways and they are pulled in new and dangerous directions.

I was caught up in the multigenerational saga of that unfolded in the series, and the variety of relationships and courtships Aiken she depicted. I eventually blew through the rest of the Dragon Kin stories. With the Knight, she can explore her desires and wants in a way she has never been able to before, surrounded by either her brother’s villainy and cruelty or her soldier’s admiration and loyalty. She feels safe with the Dragon, precisely because he is a dragon and not a man. But that storyline is not simply for laughs and hotness, but it helps flesh out Annwyl’s guarded personality. Laurenston/Aiken’s sense of the ridiculous is spot on as she has Annwyl and Ferghus end up in a unlikely love-lust triangle, as Annwyl slowly falls in love with the Dragon while lusting for the Knight, her trainer, not knowing he is Fearghus in his human form. I loved the friendship & hesitant romance that grows between Annywl and Fearghus. Instead of eating her, Fearghus instead uses his magics and that off his sister’s to heal Annwyl. Fearghus The Destroyer, is dragon sick and tired of people, not to mention his large and annoying family, who stumbles upon Annwyl as she cuts down soldiers who had ambushed her. In Dragon Actually, the heroine, Annwyl the Bloody is the bastard daughter of tyrant, leading a rebellion against her even more vicious brother. Aiken’s absolutely bonkers, and bloodthirsty heroines and her arrogant and frequently befuddled heroes under whatever pen name she is writing under. In the days leading up to the inauguration I binge read G.A. Aiken From 4.49 2 The Distressing Damsel G.A. To world or words that felt familiar and comforting. See the complete Dragon Kin 0.1 series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. As a reader I’ve retreated to series and familiar authors. Our country and maybe the whole world is in one such rough patch right now.

Romance the lifesaver I clung to when my family hit a particularly rough patch.

Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken