Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Dragon Bridge
AUTHOR: E.D. Parr
PUBLISHER: Evernight Publishing
LENGTH: 127 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 28, 2022
BLURB:
Tired from his high stress work fighting cyber-crime, Key Alder takes a vacation on a beautiful Italian coast. He travels from one gorgeous town to another and after a perilous journey lost in the mountains, he settles into his hotel and relaxes.
In a beachside café, next to a warm pale-blue ocean, a performer hands out fliers for an arts festival in a mountain village. Lured by adventure, Key attends an evening performance of fire juggling acrobats in the legendary village piazza.
Claudio Di Fiore, the star of the show, sees Key in the audience and is captured by a wonderful feeling he’s unaccustomed to. Claudio wants Key. Key is enchanted by Claudio. A passionate love grows between the two men.
When Claudio’s mysterious ancient family threaten to tear them apart, will Key risk everything to stay with his loved one?
REVIEW:
When cyber-crime agent Key Alder decides that enough is enough he quits his job of 10-years with the US government. The stress of the job coupled with the doom he experiences from watching peoples live’s crushed has become too much! Key decides to get away from it all on a lovely Italian Coast vacation adventure before he decides what next to do with his life. Although he has had men interested in him on the trip Key has never been a “one and done” kind of guy. That all goes up in a puff of smoke while attending the Arts Festival in Bellafiore. While being mesmerized by the flying acrobatics of the street performers he realizes that one in particular has caught his attention and he obviously has definitely caught the high flyer’s too!
This was a face paced insta-lust/love-attraction book. It confused me a tad bit that Key turned down so abruptly the attention of Gino but latched right on to Claudio’s. I know that he didn’t do one night stands and that’s all it could be while vacationing in Italy. So why Claudio? I guess that a person knows the moment they lay eyes on their forever person sometimes.
In a book this short I was pleasantly surprised at the level of information and story building that was constructed. You got the whole Town’s myth of Dragon Bridge, the lineage of Claudio and how it intersected with that myth. Plus you got family lineage that went back many centuries.
What confused me was that the townspeople didn’t seem surprised by Claudio and his preforming brothers. They didn’t seem at all surprised that Claudio has resided in Bellafiore for all of his very long life yet he never aged it seems.
Also, we never got to hear what Key chose for his new profession. Oh, and I loved the story of how his mother chose his name.
If you are looking for a fast read, short book that is filled with adventure, a wonderful love story, and a great HEA of love conquers all then this book for you.
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