- Title: What a Dragon Should Know
- Author: G. A. Aiken/Shelly Laurenston
- Type: Epic fantasy romance
- Genre: alternate world/dragon shifter
- Sub-genre: conniving liars meet their match
- My Grade: A- (4.5*)
- Rating: NC-17
- Where Available: Everywhere books are sold
G. A. Aiken is Shelly Laurenston’s alter ego for her dragon fantasy series. In the first two books, Dragon Actually and About a Dragon, the author builds a world where various species of dragon exist side-by-side with humans, who are often seen by the dragons as a food source. The dragons rarely trouble themselves with short lived humans, but somehow the off-spring of Queen Riannon of the Southland fire dragons, keep finding human mates, much to their father Bercelek’s annoyance! She’s added an interim story of the parents of this mob – Queen Riannon and Bercelek contained within Dragon Actually, and Everlasting Bad Boys had a great novella, Can’t Get Enough, about Ailean the Wicked and Shalin the Innocent, the grandparents of the dragons in the Dragon Kin series, written as Shelly Laurenston. I love Laurenston’s humor and strong female leads and the males who love them for being exactly what they are, tough as nails schemers and fighters. What a Dragon Should Know is book 3 in her Dragon Kin series and it’s far more of an epic fantasy than a romance. Regardless, it’s another complex, laugh out loud story of wildly eccentric dragons and the equally eccentric mates they choose. (more…)