Saturday, September 10, 2016

Dragon Detective (Supernatural Consultant 4) by Mell Eight


Nickel might be a water elemental dragon, but even he has limits—and the sudden rain storms, hail, and snow in mid-summer are way over the line. Luckily, he works for Dane's Supernatural Consulting firm and can use those resources to figure out who keeps mucking with the weather and get them to stop.

It doesn't take long for Nickel to realize he isn't the only one searching for the weather worker: the enemy he has been hunting for ten years has finally reappeared, and it's a race to see which of them will reach the weather worker first. Nickel isn't certain he'll win, or even survive, the attempt, but he'll do whatever it takes to save the dragons.

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My Review:     (Thanks to NetGalley) 

This wasn't a book. This was a couple of chapters from a book.

Why do I say this? Not only because of the length (77 pages), but there wasn't a proper beginning and there was no ending. 

None of the characters were explained past their names and with the dragons, what kind they were. Dane. a main character, was a supernatural that was not explained apart from being shown to be powerful and glamoured. He is a 'supernatural consultant' whatever that is. None of the dragons were explained physically past 'looking human' and their hair colour. However one flies later in the 'book'. How? Do they change form? And when they 'look human' they are also (sometimes) identifiable as dragons - there was mention of scales? It was all very confusing! Also we have mention of 'legendary' dragons that everyone is looking for/believing not to exist, and then its explained that they were real and we knew who they were all along?

The plot was again part of a larger book. There was scientists who were doing experiments on dragons for some reason, for somebody, and somehow had some sort of magic even though they were human? The bad guys in this 'book' weren't even given names!

I think if you had of read the first 3 books in this series you would have liked this one a lot better, but you should still be able to read a series book as a stand-a-lone to some degree of understanding!