Dark Fire by Ruby Dixon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Azar has taken over Fort Dallas. He rules with complete authority, and everyone bows down to him.

Everyone except one woman. Melina, the fort’s medic. No matter what he offers, she refuses to give in. A good man would know to stop asking. Unfortunately for Melina, Azar is not a good man.

Dark Fire

Azar the antihero!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💜💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎🌍
Character development: 😠☺️😋🥰😎
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Melina – She lives in Fort Dallas and runs a clinic. This is in ‘The After’ which is what they call the time after the dragon apocalypse, when Dragons flew through a rift in the sky and started reigning fire on the earth. She treats a strange man named Azar, who seems not quite human. Before leaving he claims that she will be his consort when he returns to take over Fort Dallas.

The Hero: Azar – He is a Salorian, who are enemies to the Drakoni. The Salorians have the ability to control the minds of the Drakoni, so the abused that power and made the Drakoni their slaves. They also have delusions of grandeur and Azar is a prime example of that. He believes he is making things better for people when he takes control of dragons’ minds (they were crazed anyway, so he thinks he is helping them), then uses those dragons to protect Fort Dallas.

The Story: Azar wants Melina for himself and will do anything to have her. He also sees this as doing her a favor after he takes Fort Dallas and becomes the new leader. Since he will give her things and make her life better. He feels the same way about his underwear program, where he feeds and gives shelter for women in exchange for their underwear (which he uses to attract crazed Drakoni males to mate with the women).

This story was better than I expected. Especially since Azar was such an awful character in previous books. Plus he basically pushed Melina into a relationship she didn’t want. However, the fact that he did really make things better in Fort Dallas, helped a lot, despite the ways he went about things, and we see things from his point of view and based on the civilization he grew up in, he turned out to be a lot more sympathetic than I thought he would be. Also Melina changed him quite a bit and the things he did for her and because of her made him likable. It was kind of funny how little he cared for anyone but her, though he did nice things on behalf of her.

This book is told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Ja’Air Bush and Jeremy York. Goodreads says Jillian Macie is one of the narrators and I like her a bit better than Ja’Air Bush, though Ja’Air does fit the character better. Jeremy York always does a great job and I like his voice.

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