Life is never dull when you've become a dragon shifter's keeper.
Now that Drill is Az, the dragon shifter's keeper, it's time for them to move out of the basement. Being the owner's brother has some perks and Pirou has renovated their rooms to include everything that could make a dragon shifter and a master happy. With a place of their own, Az and Drill are free to explore each other and their special relationship.
The slavers who first stole Az still want the dragon they lost, though, and when they attack, it exposes Az and Drill to the rest of the residents at the Old Tavern Club, including Drill's brother and club owner Drongo. Can Az and Drill survive the exposure?
Often referred to as "Space Cowboy" and "Gangsta of Love" while still striving for the moniker of "Maurice," Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and persuing the kama sutra by channeling the long lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to "Chicago."
A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.
Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
I’ve been looking forward to more adventures of newly minted dragon keeper Drill and the adorable, if somewhat shy, dragon shifter named Az. They only barely began to explore their new relationship in the previous book, but in ‘Claws’, they are moving from the basement where Az was kept into new rooms on the top floor. It takes quite a bit of Drill’s powers of persuasion to get Az to move – Az still remembers the slavers who caught him all to well and is less than willing to leave the safety of the basement at the shifter rescue.
To short. I would have liked it to be a little longer. Also, calling each other "keeper" and "my dragon" did get a little annoying. They do have names after all. I love the whole idea of saving shifters and having a safe place for them to stay. At some point, if the cost drops some, I will finish this series.
Beginning a couple of weeks after Scales ends, Claws continues the deepening relationship between Drill and Az. With their rooms finally done, Drill and Az finally get to move into their own space to continue Az’s recovery and training. The story in this one runs along the same lines as the previous book as Drill and Az are still learning about each other as Drill tries to acclimate his dragon to his new circumstances. Drill also begins working more on Az’s training as a sub though there weren’t as many bdsm elements as I was expecting.
I liked the story a bit more than the first one as you got to see Az come out of his shell a little more, especially around Pirou, and there was a bit more to the plot than just seeing Drill and Az together. The action, while later in the book than I was expecting, was a welcome break from just seeing the relationship develop more between the main characters and I also liked how you finally get an introduction to the man behind the shifter rescue operation, Drogo. I still had some problems with how simplistic Az was in his dialogue most of the time but I find that the addition of the attempted kidnapping balanced that out in the book’s favor. (At least to a point.) You really need to read the first book to better grasp some aspects of this one but if you were really determined, you could probably get through it without a ton of issues. I liked the story but it wasn’t spectacular; it made for an easy way to kill some time though and I enjoyed it for the most part.
It was good to read book two in this series. Az and Drill are settled into new quarters. We have bad guys and finally the rest of the family become involved. I hope there are more.
Az is young and sheltered. He has a lot to learn and a long way to go. Drill has found a mate. A bear wolf mix mated to a dragon. Fight scene was to short.