Drantos by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

For most, a plane crash means the end of life. For Dusti Dawson, it’s just the beginning… 

Dusti and her sister Batina survived the crash, thanks to a couple of brothers who are equal parts menacing and muscled. She’d be grateful…if they hadn’t turned out to be delusional kidnappers, who believe Dusti’s grandfather is some monstrous halfbreed creature bent on murder. Turns out Vampires, Lycans, and Gargoyles do exist— and they’ve been crossbreeding to form two hybrid races. Drantos, the man Dusti can’t stop lusting after, is one of the most dangerous of all. 

VampLycans Drantos and Kraven were sent to eliminate a threat to their clan. But when that threat turns out to be mostly human women, clueless of their lineage, plans change—especially after Drantos gets a taste of Dusti’s blood. Now, he’ll die to protect her. Even if that means walking away from everything he knows to keep her at his side. 

Is her strong desire for Drantos reason enough to endure danger coming from all sides? Or should Dusti cut and run the first chance she gets? 

Drantos

Hybrids!

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

The heroine: Dusti – her and her older sister Batina were traveling in an airplane over Alaska when the plane ran into trouble in the air. Two burly men that seemed to be following them in the airport are also on the plane. The men wedged themselves between the girls and the seats in front of them and protected the girls with their bodies.

The Hero: Drantos – He and his brother Kraven follow the two girls onto the airplane because they want to use them to get at Fillmore and ruin his plans. He is their worst enemy. He sent a woman to seduce and murder Kraven a while back. When the plane is about to crash, they have no choice but to try to save the girls in order to use them against their enemy.

The Story: Dusti has a rare form of anemia and gets light headed at times. So after being in the crash she had an episode. The guys indicated that they saved Dusti and Bat because they were on their way to see Decker Fillmore (their grandfather whom they were told was terminally ill). Though they weren’t there for altruistic reasons as they obviously hate Decker Fillmore and want him dead and probably the girls as well.

I don’t know how much I will like the next book because Batina was kind of a shrew in this one, getting mad at the guys for what they did when the guys obviously saved their lives. The whole tail section of the plane got torn off and there were only like 10 survivors. Even though Dusti said that bitchiness was a defense mechanism for Bat, it made her quite unlikable at the start. Dusti was much more appealing.

The backstory on this was pretty involved, but suffice it to say that Vampires and Gargoyles can’t reproduce but Lycans can. When they found out, a bunch of VampLycans and GarLycans were born and now there are clans of each. Decker Fillmore is the alpha of one of the VampLycan clans and wants to wage war on the other clans, but can’t unless he aligns with a clan of GarLycans. However, Drantos and Kraven’s clan is already aligned with the GarLycans. So, Decker wants to give the GarLycan alpha one of his granddaughters in order to align with them and start a war. But Drantos and Kraven are trying to prevent that.

I actually liked the storyline and the new hybrids are a pretty cool new paranormal species. The VampLycans remind me of Klaus Mikkelson and his hybrids from the Vampire Diaries. The girls mother was one and mated to a human and they lived a human life till they died, so the girls have a small amount in them. Dusti was a great character and it was fun when Drantos was trying to tell her the history and she was convinced he was a crazy person who desperately needed meds.

This book is told in multiple points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Savannah Richards. I have to admit that I absolutely hate solo narration and I almost never buy audiobooks that are narrated in solo, especially if it is a female narrator, because for some reason I like males better. However, I like Laurann Dohner books after reading a few of the New Species series so I bought a whole bunch of them since there was a big sale on audible. I did like Savannah Richards voice and narration style and her man’s voice wasn’t as bad as most.

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