Line of Fyre by Cara Bristol

4 Stars

This novel was well written and edited, with few typos that I found in the ARC version of this manuscript. The world building was quite competent, with the landscape of the dragon shifter's home world sketched out briefly but competently. The characterization in this novel was pretty good, with the hero and heroine of this novel both being pretty sympathetic characters. The development of the romantic relationship was a little uneven, with the hero being totally unwilling to court the heroine properly or have any kind of loving relationship with her and then suddenly saying he is madly in love with her after she gets grievously injured. The plot and pacing was fairly exciting, with a fair amount of political machinations, narrow escapes, and people trying to kill the heroine. The pacing made me turn the pages fairly quickly to find out what was going to happen next. This novel had a fair amount of angst on the hero's part, with him refusing to believe the heroine was his fated mate due to his own racism. The stakes were pretty high throughout this novel. This is usually one of my preferred narrative structures for a romance novel. This novel uses the Fated Mates trope. The plot and pacing rated five stars. The world building and development of the romantic relationship rated three stars. The characterization rated four stars. The hero's racism toward humans was distasteful for me to read, I will admit. The combined score for this novel was four stars. This novel ends on a Happy Ever After ending instead of a cliffhanger, so that is a big plus for this novel. I recommend this novel to readers who romance novels that are genre mash of sci-fi and paranormal. I do not plan to buy myself a keeper copy of this novel. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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