Steel Dragon 4

By: Kevin McLaughlin, Michael Anderle

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

The mages push Earth closer to a war that no one can win. Kristen and her team are all that stands between them and the utter annihilation of everyone she loves.

But the mages may not be the worst threat she has to face! In the shadows, someone lurks, manipulating others for his own gain.

The Mage assassins are no longer content to hide in the shadows. Their day has arrived, and they will rise to remake the world into a place without dragons.

But before she can deal with the hidden adversary, Kristen has to stop the mages from kicking off a war. They are determined to bring humanity and dragon-kind into conflict, no matter the cost.

She has the team. She has her dragon powers. Kristen even has the backing of the Council. But winning the battle to end the war will still take everything she can bring to bear, and then some!

And even that might not be enough.

©2020 LMBPN Publishing (P)2020 Tantor

I don’t think that this is a good story by this author. I can’t be certain that he actually wrote this.

first off, Kristen has killed ancient dragons with varying degree of skill however, a young dragon is able to kick her ass using martial arts, but I called bullshit because there’s no such thing as dragon martial arts in the story. Kristen who is a trained police officer is unable to take down this person, dragon sister is consistently all over the board getting her ass kicked. Yet somehow comes out on top lazy riding unfortunately and I’m starting to wonder if AI is being used. overall arc is good. The premise is good. The performance is outstanding. But the fact is is that this character is a grown child. For someone who is raised by humans she should be more mature. Yet she acts like well at 12 year-old. Conveniently forgets her dragon powers. conveniently has memory problems in it and lack of understanding when the protagonist shows body parts which are clearly described yet she can’t put two into together to get four on who the bad guy is. The author does this character a ginormous disservice. I’ve added a couple more things to this, the author has made this character Kristen so incredibly inept and stupid. It’s painful. She can’t accept clues that are so freaking obvious. It’s unbelievable. It’s like he’s purposefully writing in order to infuriate his audience. If he doesn’t change the way this character is I’m quitting the series. I can’t take it anymore.

Not a very good story

the reading was good, but the story remained flat, as did the characters. it just never reached the potential such a storyline deserved.

Better than the first few but still not that good.

First, if you are an author and you use the American Civil War in a book. And you DO NOT FACT CHECK THE CIVIL WAR, and you say it was over slavery, that shows just how incompetent and lazy you really are! The Civil War WAS NOT started over slavery. It was fought over state’s rights and an over reaching federal government. Slavery was a by note used by Lincoln when the north realized they were seriously losing the war they started! By freeing slaves Lincoln thought to infuse new fighters into the North’s war machine. Also they thought to begin an insurgency of the Black population in the South. It didnt work aswell as they thought it would. We, the South lost the war because we did not have the manufacturing abilities of the north. Also the majority of Confederate Soldiers became aware that the southern government was becoming more oppressive than the Union. There were other factors aswell, but saying the Civil War was started over slavery is a lie perpetrated by corrupt politicians and propaganda of a government that wants to control every aspect of every life within American borders.

Missing first chapter

This book is missing the first chapter. It goes from intro credits to chapter 2

I'm honestly not sure

I have an interesting relationship with this series. Half the time I am enthralled and can't wait to listen to the next chapter. The other half I am so annoyed by the inconsistency, constantly changed lore, and sheer stupidity of the protagonists that I wonder if I should bother finishing the book.