Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: "Night Shift Dragons" by Rachel Aaron Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:20:03 -0800 Organization: nil Lines: 56 Message-ID: Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 23:20:06 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="62e6096038ce43e12c5479503ce0cad6"; logging-data="2078985"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lDNKmdtXfdQbmMrbtBYno" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:KeD47m1Oa3S2VHxvOX0TJOFpXyI= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3505 Hi denizens of Usenet rec.arts.sw.written, Curiously enough I finished a book called "Night Shift Dragons" by Rachel Aaron and advertised as the Final DFZ volume but it ain't. Could not find the price on this large 372 page paperback volume. WWW.RachelAaron.net might tell me but I have enough in the way of temptation to spend money on. The series is about a young woman and her Adoptive Father who happens to be a dragon. She finds him overly controlling and is trying to escape his influence in the Detroit Free Zone aka the DFZ which is also the name of the City's Living Goddess. DFZ means what her name says. By the way after a meteor strike the magic was returned to the world and the lake Goddess Algoncoquin sic rose up and struck the old human city of Detroit with a tidal wave of the rubbish the city had disposed of over the centuries in her waters. She was generally opposed to other Supernaturals and especially dragons. The DFZ forced Her back into Lake Bed and took over Detroit adding a layer high above the drowned City and welcoming the Peacemaker, a very powerful Dragon and his court includes many dragons(Scheming Snakes all). Opal Yong ie is the daughter of the esteemed and very powerful Dragon of Korea, called Fong. Fong has cultivated humans for many thousands of years and Opal is the child of his human lover. Fong's humans remain loyal to him. His sister called "White Snake" did not and hoping to beat him in his weakened condition, the result of a curse that he put on Opal, which backfired and drained his strength. DFZ intervened to get the services of Opal. White Snake, was severely damaged by the intervention and captured by a Mortal Spirit running a fighting arena. Good lesson for dragons everywhere, who curses others must be very careful. Great Yong cursed Opal to have bad luck. The curse eventually reduces him to dependence on Opal and the DFZ has made Opal, Her priestess-in-training to improve her magical skills. Then the action starts. When it over Great Fong will happily return to Korea and Opal will promise to visit as a result. Rachel Aaron writes very well and if I had not gotten the book out of the library before I twisted my ankle I would have finished it sooner. Because it had been so long since I started the book I looked at the first few pages again and had read 50 pages before I stopped. So I think that Night Shift Dragons is pretty good. bliss - a real hobbler -- b l i s s dash s f 4 e v e r at d s l e x t r e m e dot c o m