Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Blog Tour, Excerpt & Review: Dragon King by Donna Grant

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We are thrilled to bring you the Review & Excerpt Tour for Donna Grant's DRAGON KING! DRAGON KING is a novella in Donna's Dark Kings Series brought to you by the team at 1001 Dark Nights! Grab your copy today!

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DRAGON KING – Review & Excerpt Tour Schedule:
August 26th
JB's Book Obsession – Excerpt
She Hearts Books – Review
Pages Abound – Excerpt
August 27th
Read Your Writes – Excerpt
Reads All the Books – Review & Excerpt
Booklover4lifeblog – Excerpt
21st Century Once Upon A Times – Review & Excerpt
August 28th
Oh My Shelves – Excerpt
My Golden Reads – Review & Excerpt
August 29th
Ali's Reviews and Morr – Review & Excerpt
Becky on Books – Review & Excerpt
Oh My Growing TBR – Excerpt
August 30th
Little Read Riding Hood – Review & Excerpt
Books That Hook – Review
August 31st
SofiaLovesReading – Review
September 1st
Read-Love-Blog – Excerpt
Romance Bytes – Excerpt
Literary Misfit – Review & Excerpt
Books and Warpaint – Review & Excerpt
September 2nd
Boundless Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt
The Book Disciple – Excerpt
September 3rd
Revenge of the Feels – Review & Excerpt
Roxy's Reviews – Excerpt
Reading in Pajamas – Review & Excerpt
My World of Books – Review
September 4th
Once Upon An Alpha – Review
Amour's Books – Review & Excerpt


    About DRAGON KING: A Dark Kings Novella:

  A Woman on a Mission
Grace Clark has always done things safe. She's never colored outside of the law, but she has a book due and has found the perfect spot to break through her writer's block. Or so she thinks. Right up until Arian suddenly appears and tries to force her away from the mountain. Unaware of the war she just stumbled into, Grace doesn't just discover the perfect place to write, she finds Arian—the most gorgeous, enticing, mysterious man she's ever met.

  A King with a Purpose
Arian is a Dragon King who has slept away centuries in his cave. Recently woken, he's about to leave his mountain to join his brethren in a war when he's alerted that someone has crossed onto Dreagan. He's ready to fight . . . until he sees the woman. She's innocent and mortal—and she sets his blood aflame. He recognizes the danger approaching her just as the dragon within him demands he claim her for his own...  


Excerpt:



Arian paced the cavern in his mountain in agitation and a wee bit of anxiety. He was shaking off the dragon sleep from the past six hundred years. Not only had it been six centuries since he had been in human form, but there was a war the Dragon Kings were involved in.
Con and the others were waiting for him to join in the war. Every King had been woken to take part. After all the wars they had been involved in, Arian wasn’t happy to be woken to join another.
Because of Ulrik. The banished and disgraced Dragon King hadn’t just made a nuisance of himself, but he somehow managed to get his magic returned.
Which meant the Kings needed to put extra magic into keeping the four silver dragons sleeping undisturbed deep within the mountain. They were Ulrik’s dragons, and he would want to wake them soon.
But it wasn’t just Ulrik that was causing mischief. The Dark Fae were as well. It infuriated Arian that they were once more fighting the Dark. Hadn’t the Fae Wars killed enough Fae and dragons?
Then again, as a Dragon King as old as time itself, they were targets for others who wanted to defeat them.
For Ulrik, he just wanted revenge. Arian hated him for it, but he could understand. Mostly because Arian had briefly joined Ulrik in his quest to rid the realm of humans.
Thoughts of Ulrik were pushed aside as Arian found himself thinking about why he had taken to his mountain. When he came here six hundred years earlier, it was to remain there for many thousands of years.
The Dragon Kings sought their mountains for many reasons. Some were just tired of dealing with mortals, but others had something they wished to forget for a while. Arian was one of the latter.
There were many things he did in his past when the King of Kings, Constantine, asked. Not all of them Arian was proud of. The one that sent him to his mountain still preyed upon him.
He didn’t remember her name, but he remembered her tears. Because of the spell to prevent any of the Dragon Kings from falling in love with mortals, Arian had easily walked away from the female.
Six centuries later, he could still hear her begging him to stay with her, still see the tears coursing down her face. Though he hadn’t felt anything, it bothered him that he had so easily walked away. Because Con had demanded it.
Loyalty—above all else.
The Dragon Kings were his family, and Dreagan his home. There was never any question if he were needed that Arian would do whatever it took to help his brethren in any capacity asked of him.


My Review:


Dragon King brings to life a fabulous romantic fantasy tale of a Dragon shifter and the human woman who stumbles into his life.  

Arian is a Dragon King, one who's been sleeping for a long time and has awakened to help in the war against his kind.  Arian has always been loyal and done what was asked of him when it comes to aiding the other Dragon Kings and Con who is the King of Kings.  Arian has given up much to do his part, though some details have slipped his mind, he has never fully forgotten the past.  

Grace has travelled to Scotland in the hopes that her writing slump will be overcome and she can actually write the story she's on a deadline for. Heading off into a random part of Scotland, Grace finds that her muse has returned and she's able to get some writing done, but she's also about to discover a little something more. 

I loved that Grace wasn't one to go hysterical OR sit down and take anything. She could admit she was afraid, but she'd overcome it and sort of stand up to Arian.  She took to the information he gave her without overthinking it and actually seemed to grasp the dynamics of the Dragon Kings rather well.  

Arian was a wonderful character, he was torn between his loyalty to Con and the newfound friendship he found with Grace. Grace was fun, witty, and a bit feisty at times.  


















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About Donna Grant: Donna Grant is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the sizzling Dark King series featuring dragons, immortal Highlanders, and the Fae. She was born and raised in Texas but loves to travel. Her adventures have taken her throughout the United States as well as to Jamaica, Mexico, and Scotland. Growing up on the Texas/Louisiana border, Donna’s Cajun side of the family taught her the “spicy” side of life while her Texas roots gave her two-steppin’ and bareback riding. Despite deadlines and voracious reading, Donna still manages to keep up with her two children, four cats, and one long haired Chihuahua.  

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