Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: Danny’s Dragon
SERIES: Tao of Love #1
AUTHOR: Sedonia Guillone
PUBLISHER: Wayward Ink Publishing
LENGTH: 207 Pages
BLURB:
A rugged, muscular cop.
A sexy computer genius.
Secret desires.
Brought together by a crime committed on a cold dark night.
From the moment they meet, their lives can never be the same again…
Wild and rugged Dave Pearce is haunted by the demons of his past. He’s done his best to make a life for himself after the devastation of his lover’s suicide years earlier, but the trauma has left its mark on his soul.
Danny Wong is what Dave considers a “nerdy Bruce Lee.” Handsome, refined, out of his league.
But that doesn’t matter.
Dave believes himself to be dangerous for any man who would love him. So he stays back in the shadows, letting the desire he harbors for the hot grad student remain unrequited.
Danny has demons of his own. Duty-bound to his family’s goals for him, he remains shy and closeted, contenting himself with his secret fantasies about the sexy Irish cop who patrols the campus building where Danny does his graduate work.
Until one freezing winter night…
Leaving the building, fate steps in and their paths cross in a new…deeper way. Neither man can turn back. Danny and Dave must face the demons rearing their heads with full force, or lose their chance at an epic love…
REVIEW:
I’m going to try to keep this as quick and painless as possible, because for some inexplicable reason, I feel bad about not rating this higher. I really liked the sound of this blurb, and I went in with high hopes, but when I found myself grasping at stars, battling to look for reasons to bump this rating up, I realized I just had to let it go. Every reader can’t like every book, and unfortunately this one just didn’t work for me.
The incident that brings these two men together happens almost immediately and from that point they’re pretty much together every moment. There was no build up, no delicious tension to feed off but aside from that, I felt that I didn’t get a sense of who these men were as individuals. What we do learn is mostly from the stories that they relate to each other and though I then had the necessary information, I wasn’t feeling it.
Unfortunately a pet peeve of mine, and maybe this is simply a personal preference, is a concentration of sex scenes at one point in the story. When Danny and Dave end up in bed together the sex scene just seemed to go forever. I don’t actually think that there was anything wrong with that, although it obviously failed to hold my interest but once they were done I was eager to get back to the story. However, when they wake up the next morning they start again. I have a feeling that the scene just didn’t work for me mainly because I felt no connection between them.
My biggest issue though was with Danny. I’ve read Asian characters before who felt “very Asian”. I hope that doesn’t sound racist, because I actually don’t mean it in a bad way. I just mean, they’d eat the foreign food, speak the foreign language and think with a foreign mindset. There would be a heavy focus on the fact that they have Asian cultural roots. But Danny came across to me as an overdone cliché. If that guy was any more Zen the inner peace radiating from him would probably become visible. Added to the way he referred to Dave’s cock as his “dragon” or his “jade stem” and…just no.
This wasn’t a bad story by ay means, and I see from looking at Goodreads that most readers seem to really like it. Like I said, not every book can appeal to every reader. If you’re interested by the blurb then maybe check out some of those other reviews before making a decision.
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