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Intertwined
Alita is recruited to be the bodyguard of her old childhood friend and Prinze of Hiza Calndom, Evelyn. She has one week to prove herself a worthwhile bodyguard or she could be sent back to her unhappy life in Tribe-Ali. But no one, not even Alita, expected to meet the love of her life through her new job.
It’s clear that Evelyn and Luana don’t like each other, nor the situation they’re in. But there seems to be no way out of the betrothal. Unless Evelyn can find another suitable wife, she will be forced to marry Luana.
All the while, Modesty is hiding behind the scenes. She’s vengeful of her father and wants the crown for herself. The betrothal has put a time limit on her plans and Alita’s recruitment has made removing the High Caln and Prinze more difficult than ever.
With just one week until Alita’s job is secured permanently, tensions are high and emotions are strong. Only one dragon can become High Caln, and only one dragon will win Alita’s heart.
It’s clear that Evelyn and Luana don’t like each other, nor the situation they’re in. But there seems to be no way out of the betrothal. Unless Evelyn can find another suitable wife, she will be forced to marry Luana.
All the while, Modesty is hiding behind the scenes. She’s vengeful of her father and wants the crown for herself. The betrothal has put a time limit on her plans and Alita’s recruitment has made removing the High Caln and Prinze more difficult than ever.
With just one week until Alita’s job is secured permanently, tensions are high and emotions are strong. Only one dragon can become High Caln, and only one dragon will win Alita’s heart.
280 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 12, 2025
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December 29, 2025
Thrilling
This was fun to read. The story follows 3 dragonesses who are either adjusting to or already navigating the nobility life and its associated problems. The 3 dragonesses are also in a love triangle, a setup that produces such drama, emotional thrills, and heartbreak that made it difficult to put down the book.
Though, the ending felt somewhat rushed. Events and dialogues leading up to the triangle (plus the ensuing complications) had a consistent pacing that made them believable. Then the climax and resolution went by in a blink and made the outcome feel forced. Also, an unfortunate typo causing "Your crown" to become "You're crown" at a crucial moment dulled the tension in that scene.
Still, dialogues before the closure are well written and clearly convey the speaker's emotions. Joy, embarrassment, envy, heartbreak--these all shine through and paint very real characters, making them the highlight of the book for me.
This was fun to read. The story follows 3 dragonesses who are either adjusting to or already navigating the nobility life and its associated problems. The 3 dragonesses are also in a love triangle, a setup that produces such drama, emotional thrills, and heartbreak that made it difficult to put down the book.
Though, the ending felt somewhat rushed. Events and dialogues leading up to the triangle (plus the ensuing complications) had a consistent pacing that made them believable. Then the climax and resolution went by in a blink and made the outcome feel forced. Also, an unfortunate typo causing "Your crown" to become "You're crown" at a crucial moment dulled the tension in that scene.
Still, dialogues before the closure are well written and clearly convey the speaker's emotions. Joy, embarrassment, envy, heartbreak--these all shine through and paint very real characters, making them the highlight of the book for me.
April 21, 2026
Intertwined is an enjoyable read and a jolly impressive debut work.
The central narrative is solid, but the unrelated details feel a bit shaky and fall apart under scrutiny. Specifically, the broader details about the world felt fuzzy and somewhat implausible; the inner workings of the Calndom and its politics, as well as the neighbouring tribes with their weird "only the chief gets to shag" policy - which seemingly goes against dragons' monogamous predispositions - are cases in point. The most perplexing thing was definitely Modesty's one-man (or, well, dragon) coup, which honestly made no sense whatsoever. Killing the King and his heir does not make you the new monarch; it makes you a person who has killed the King and shall therefore be executed in short order once the loyalists get their claws on you.
Modesty spending a good chunk of the narrative saying, "I'm going to do it," and then actually doing it was a bit daft, too. I feel that it would have been much better if Modesty had a group of individuals working with her, aiming to overthrow the King and install her as the new ruler. This would have also allowed for more intrigue by making the nature of the threat to the royals more nebulous, only revealing Modesty's role as the mastermind behind the whole thing later on. Additionally, getting more people involved would have made the stakes seem much higher and prevented the situation where a regime that had persisted for hundreds of years was threatened by one very cross dragoness whose intentions were obvious to everyone from the very beginning.
Still, the main characters were surprisingly deep and nuanced; I’d even go so far as to say that I quite liked everyone from the main trio; despite the relatively slim page count, the author managed to give each of them bags of personality and make their connections feel properly genuine - a bar many “love at first sight” narratives fail to clear.
While the relationship between three main characters does not entirely fit the definition of a love triangle - as the protagonist, Alita, is only romantically interested in one of the two - it is further complicated by the fact that the two dragonesses vying for her affections are meant to marry each other as part of agreement between their families; on top of that, one of them is Alita’s childhood friend that now holds a position of authority over her.
The prose and writing were of a very respectable level as well, particularly for a debut work. All in all, if one were to overlook some of the less fleshed-out parts of the narrative, Intertwined is, without a doubt, an absolutely cracking read that makes me eager to see where the author takes the world and its characters next.
(The two downsides that I feel like pointing out that are not directly related to the contents of the book are that the book is, regrettably, saddled with DRM, and that, for some reason, it is surprisingly reluctant to divulge that it is actually about dragons, waiting until the very last sentence of the blurb to do so.)
The central narrative is solid, but the unrelated details feel a bit shaky and fall apart under scrutiny. Specifically, the broader details about the world felt fuzzy and somewhat implausible; the inner workings of the Calndom and its politics, as well as the neighbouring tribes with their weird "only the chief gets to shag" policy - which seemingly goes against dragons' monogamous predispositions - are cases in point. The most perplexing thing was definitely Modesty's one-man (or, well, dragon) coup, which honestly made no sense whatsoever. Killing the King and his heir does not make you the new monarch; it makes you a person who has killed the King and shall therefore be executed in short order once the loyalists get their claws on you.
Modesty spending a good chunk of the narrative saying, "I'm going to do it," and then actually doing it was a bit daft, too. I feel that it would have been much better if Modesty had a group of individuals working with her, aiming to overthrow the King and install her as the new ruler. This would have also allowed for more intrigue by making the nature of the threat to the royals more nebulous, only revealing Modesty's role as the mastermind behind the whole thing later on. Additionally, getting more people involved would have made the stakes seem much higher and prevented the situation where a regime that had persisted for hundreds of years was threatened by one very cross dragoness whose intentions were obvious to everyone from the very beginning.
Still, the main characters were surprisingly deep and nuanced; I’d even go so far as to say that I quite liked everyone from the main trio; despite the relatively slim page count, the author managed to give each of them bags of personality and make their connections feel properly genuine - a bar many “love at first sight” narratives fail to clear.
While the relationship between three main characters does not entirely fit the definition of a love triangle - as the protagonist, Alita, is only romantically interested in one of the two - it is further complicated by the fact that the two dragonesses vying for her affections are meant to marry each other as part of agreement between their families; on top of that, one of them is Alita’s childhood friend that now holds a position of authority over her.
The prose and writing were of a very respectable level as well, particularly for a debut work. All in all, if one were to overlook some of the less fleshed-out parts of the narrative, Intertwined is, without a doubt, an absolutely cracking read that makes me eager to see where the author takes the world and its characters next.
(The two downsides that I feel like pointing out that are not directly related to the contents of the book are that the book is, regrettably, saddled with DRM, and that, for some reason, it is surprisingly reluctant to divulge that it is actually about dragons, waiting until the very last sentence of the blurb to do so.)
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