The Becoming (The Dragon Heart Legacy #2)

The Becoming by Nora Roberts
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It picks up where The Awakening left off. Marco and Breen are in Talamh, and Marco is very accepting of Breen's other life and family. Breen and Keegan pick up their training and eventually their romance. Shana (Keegan's ex) overcome with jealousy attacks Breen. Shana evades capture, with Yseult's help and escapes to join Odran.

Breen meets her dragon and becomes a dragon rider.

At the end of the book Odran used a dream to get Breen to come to a hidden portal. Breen's blood is used to open the portal and Yseult and Shana come through with various other bad creatures and many die. Loren (Shana's boyfriend) died saving Breen's life, and Phelin (Morena's brother) is also among those killed. But in the end the portal is sealed and Talamh is saved until the next time...

Shana is pregnant by Odran. Odran wasn't able to come through the portal this time. But with Shana being pregnant with Odran's child once the child is born he will be able to drink the child's blood to gain power. Breen was able to defeat Yseult (Yseult really shouldn't have lied about everyone Breen loved being killed) but she escaped to fight another day, so Book 3 in the series is looking to be full of trouble.

Really wish this had been published earlier in the year as I really feel it should have gotten a nomination in the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards

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A Christmas Legacy (Christmas Stories, #19)

A Christmas Legacy by Anne Perry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a very touching short story Adelina Mary Harcourt is being mistreated by her son and daughter-in-law who can't wait for her to die so they can inherit her fortune. The servants do what they can, but their help is limited by their fear of being fired. So Millie (a young housemaid) does the only thing she can think of she goes to Gracie for help. Gracie takes her place in the household and since she has her own home to go back to has no fear of being fired and helps Mrs Harcourt stay clean and warm, as well as taking her food she can eat.

Sadly Mrs Harcourt passes away but she triumphs over her son and daughter in law as she leaves the bulk of her estate to the servants who cared for her at the risk of their livelihood.

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Never by Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)

Never by Ken Follett
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Really surprised I didn't like it better as I normally love Ken Follett's books. It's set in the future and we have a woman President, Pauline Green, (Republican) whose daughter is acting out and her husband is constantly complaining that she doesn't spend enough time with her Mother.

Abdul is working undercover to bring down al-Farabi and the ISGS, he is currently riding on a bus that ISGS is using to smuggle drugs as well as people.

Tamara is a CIA agent who has started a steamy affair with a wealthy agent from the DGSE, Tabdar Sadoul. And who is at odds with her boss Dexter. Tab has plans to fly Tamara to a vacation destination on his family's private plane. Plans that were almost derailed when she saw him talking to an ex-lover.

I am on Chapter 13 (page 254) and have to return the book to the library, but I have found it slow going for the most part. I hope it improves further along but I have found it really hard to get into.

I was able to get the book back the next day but this is the mos BORING political thriller I have ever read. Sadly the book ends with the United States and China embroiled in a nuclear war, mainly because everyone is acting like a bunch of kindergartners on a school playground.

Really hope Follett doesn't write anymore political thrillers and goes back to the historical fiction he does so well.

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