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Scales 'n' Spells: Breath and Wish

Scales ‘n’ Spells, Books 2-3

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Scales 'n' Spells: Breath and Wish

Written by: AJ Sherwood, Jocelynn Drake
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
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Contains books two and three of the Scales 'n' Spells series.

Breath, book two

A Mage’s List for Freedom:

  1. Escape his evil, controlling clan.
  2. Get a job.
  3. Work magic on his terms.
  4. Avoid all dragons.

Tori was doing great until sexy dragon Baldewin interfered. Between the little gifts, constant protection, and the steadfast confidence from the overgrown lizard, Tori wonders if maybe that last step needs revising. He has no chance to consider it. Not before trouble called Jaeggi really hits. Now, he’s on the road trip from hell to the one place he’d never thought would be a safe haven. A clan of dragons. Assuming they make it, that is.

Wish, book three

North has a map of Europe, a dragon scale, and a little bit of magic. He’s currently short a dragon, but all in good time, right? Right. Because he can totally dodge dangerous men and frustrated calls from his family, all while searching for a dragon during the Christmas season. He’s got this. Christmas wishes do come true with a little magic, after all.

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Great if predictable, repetitive books are your thing

I read book one before I realized the series was on Audible so I paid a credit and snagged book two-three. At first I thought “wow what a deal!” because book 1 in printed form was almost 400 pages so in audio, two books should be 20hrs or more. That is not the case. Book two is full length but book 3 is a novella!

A novella! it is not a full novel and I was so confused because I’ve never read a series where in the middle of the series there’s a novella that still carries a full series number, and carries the same theme as the full books in the series, just in bite form. Usually a novella is added to the end of a series, or listed as a .5. But not here, it’s listed as book 3. It’s 124 pages in print form and definitely seems like a placeholder, a filler or an afterthought. It cheapens the series because it shows that the almost 400 or over 400 pages of the regular full length books can actually be dwindled down into a 124 page book without missing much of the details.

I found it funny how in books 3 the mage is the one that finds them, even though in books 1 & 2 it’s clearly expressed that they have a seeker spell that’s supposed to notify them whenever there’s a mage within a certain distance. In book three that’s all but forgotten. Book three is definitely and solely for the purposes of adding a new mage and finding a mate for Wirin, there’s nothing else to the book.

I find these authors seem to follow the same outline for every book, a skeleton outline they veer very little from. Just enough to change the couple and the mage’s circumstances.

This makes the stories very similar and repetitive. There’s no suspense, these are romance novels with a threat of danger… A small threat of danger running through the series.

One thing I’m not particularly fond of is the almost over compensation of making the “weaker spouse“ into the stronger spouse. what I mean is when you hear “dragon” you automatically think strong and that’s portrayed in the description repeatedly “strong” and “fiery” but in all actuality they seem very weak because even though they are great fighters or we hear that they’re great fighters that’s pretty much it. The mages are the strategists and seem to be the ones that are the most powerful because they can channel the energy from the dragons and they can create magic. it’s kinda ludicrous when they say that the dragons don’t have any inherit magic but the fact that they shift into a dragon is magical in and of itself.

I also think it’s quite ludicrous that they have been around for more than 500 years,seen the rise and fall of different societies and stocks and yet they’re not inherently super super super super rich, that’s gotta be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

I love Joel Leslie as a narrator but I think in this series he tried to overdo himself with accents. I think it was great and that most of the time I could clearly understand who was speaking, but because it might have been overtaxing there were times that a persons accent was no longer their own, where someone would speak with the wrong accent. In his defence though I will say it would have been easier if more information was given about the dragons. I know that Ravi is of Middle Eastern descent but that’s it and we know that the ice dragons are from and live in Brazil but the other dragons that make up the fire dragon clan, are they all German descent? we don’t know any information and that should not be lacking in a 400 page book.

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