Awesome Book

Loved the characters and story. If you are hesitating based on the blurb, don't. I had to read a lot of the before I got a clearer picture of what the book was about. The fact the heroine survived a shooting that killed her groom and 17 other people at her wedding was only a small part of the storyline. The real story is the heroine, who lives close to Seattle, is a powerful witch who saves the life of a handsome man, who also happens to be a dragon from Korea. Kwan has lived the last 200 years in the USA and speaks perfect English. The heroine saving his life has broken dragon law by touching him without his approval. Her unselfish act has put her in the middle of a dragon conflict in Korea. The heroine's life spirals out of her control, somewhat. Remember I said she was powerful. What follows is often times hilarious, dangerous, magical, and heartwarming. The book is a full length novel, and a complete story. So rare these days to have a full and complete ending. I loved it.3 s Mary567 6

sorry I kept reading

on the good side: d the dragon culture, the Korean magical races and beings and the Philomena’s backstory.
on the bad: excessive use of ‘awesome’, Philomena is a total Mary Sue and the characters spend more time talking about where to get food than planning to defeat the bad guys.

Too much of the book was used to describe getting coffee, takeout or going out to eat, gaming, discussing hospitality issues and various characters going back and forth between South Korea and the Pacific Northwest. Oh, and also on boring interactions between characters (they were probs meant either to be funny or to balance out the magic parts, but just didn’t work for me.) The world-building wasn’t, there were almost no meaningful conversations, there was little struggle or hardship involved in solving their allegedly dire problems, and all in all too much of the text just didn’t matter. A better editor would trim out all the ballast, add tension and try to make everything more real . . .

. . . Including the characters, who were perfunctory. Philomena’s in-laws, the Muirs, were cardboard bullies; the rest were one-dimensional placeholders. There was no effort spent making anyone complex or interesting—even Philomena was barely sketched in. It felt almost the author was creating hashtags instead of people. Kwan’s father Hwang, for instance, might just as well be introduced with #grumpydad #patriarchalbully.

Between Philomena doing supposedly impossible things with just a wave of her hand and all the time spent reading about coffee and meals, this was a very unsatisfying book for me. You’ll have to decide if you want to spend your time and book budget on it, or pick something that sounds more entertaining (as I really wish I had done).1 Tomeka Moore15 1 follower

Phil and her Dragon

Everything Connie writes I love, and this was no exception!! You do not have to read any of Connie's books before reading this(but if you never had you should
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