Silas was just a bartender serving drinks near the Dragon Dungeon—a death trap where adventurers vanished forever. Until a horned beauty named Seven walked out.
To save Seven from assassins, Silas takes a blade to the gut, only to discover something that changes he can't die. Every wound, every strike, is reflected back at his attackers.
With this new power, Silas plunges into the seven-level Dungeon, where gorgeous dragon goddesses in human form rule each deadly floor. They're powerful. They're dangerous. And Silas can steal their power with a touch.
But darkness has corrupted the Dungeon from within. To survive, Silas must descend deeper than any mortal has dared—joined by a fiery swordswoman who fights like a demon, a wild-eyed lunatic with nothing to lose, and a seductive dragon who'd rather lounge than battle.
At the bottom waits a goddess who could destroy them all, unless Silas claims the ultimate power first—and ascends from bartender to god.
There were definitely some confusing things in this book. Just enough that I couldn't rate it higher than 3/5. I'm guessing this comes from there being two authors, though that's just speculation.
One of the things that confused me is the character's name: Silas. At the end of one of the chapters, he says something along the lines of "give it a chance". The character he says it to asks if that was a pun, specifically about his name. Later, another character says, "Cha...Silas?" It makes me wonder if there was a find and replace done to change the character's name to Silas and left small things behind.
Another confusion is that the plot just doesn't make a tonne of sense until the end. Obvious flaws aren't questioned by Silas so while reading it, I got annoyed. It didn't all click into place until there were less than 5 chapters left.
There were other small things, like the size classification of a couple dragons changing, mentioning the wrong character's name, a certain important character not being included in the blurb, etc.
Lastly, the book's title. "Dragonkin" is not said once in the entire book. "Dragonkind" was mentioned maybe twice in the opening chapters. The dungeon was referred to as the "Dragon Dungeon". Didn't affect the story or anything, was just a weird decision to name it that way, I guess.
this book actually drove me crazy because I was sitting there trying to figure out the mystery of it. What was actually going on while reading it only for it to blindside me a million different ways in a million different styles and the end is so crazy but so much better than I thought it would be.
I would have liked to see how things worked out between Silas, Sloth, Envy and Wrath but the book kinda just ends without any sort of closure for the side characters.
DNF - who would have thought that a world full of dragons and magic and a magical dungeon could be the most boring thing ever written. I could not finish it. Maybe it gets good later but at 20% I was solidly checked out.