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Wickedly charming and amazingly unique series. I've read a lot of books but nothing really comes to mind when I think of this author's style of writing. Battle aggressive dragons and there amazing mates ensue. Glheanna the decimator, even the name is intimidating...lol. Glheanna gets pulled into protecting a peacemaker, Bram the merciful. I found this series to stay true to the other books, filled with action, sexy scenes, and a perfect HEA. Highly enjoyable if you liked her other books or perfect as a standalone story. Four stars of amazing entertainment!

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Oh god, I love me some G.A. Aiken. It took me a really long time to realise that I had actually fallen in love with her other pen name before this and it just made me understand why I love her so much.
The humour is out of this world and keeps me coming back again and again along with the amazing characters she creates and Dragon On Top is no different. I've been reading this series for quite some time but haven't often been reading the novella's that go with it because I hadn't realised there were novellas!
It was great to see how Bran and Glheanna got together and I seriously enjoyed their story oh so much. I, for once, didn't wish it was longer because it was so well written that I felt as a reader I got everything the author could give these two and it was especially good.
A must read for a fan of the series or if you love a good humorous paranormal romance.

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Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of the book cover choices for the author's series'. Half-naked male eye candy makes for a lousy cover in my opinion -- it strikes me as cliched and out of date, but more importantly, it limits the pool of possible readers drawn by the cover and only represents a small portion of what the book is about.. I also think Shelly Laurenston/G.A. Aiken's books could all use a tougher (more exacting) copy editor, but her stories are always so much fun to read. Her character are always over-the-top, intense and funny -- but so are their stories and their worlds, and the author (under any name) does a fantastic job drawing the reader in and making incredible, WAY-larger-than-life people and events seem perfectly acceptable, even ordinary.

Her humor is delightful, her sex scenes are erotic, sensual and scorching hot -- without taking over the story (thank you!) -- and her creativity and world-building produces settings and characters that are grounded in a sense of reality that balances the dollop of the fantastical, the "otherness" vital to a paranormal/urban fantasy.
In other words, under whichever name, the author simply writes such smashingly fun and entertaining stories that even I (voracious reader, editor and librarian that I am) am willing to work very hard to ignore grammar, punctuation and syntax errors that otherwise make me itch for a red pen and sticky notes! I enjoy her books so much that I pass them along to my mother and my friends with glowing reviews and knowing grins.

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