Fire In His Embrace: A Post-Apocalyptic Dragon Romance (Fireblood Dragon Book 3)

You will not understand this unless you read this to the very end 😭 how whyyy!!!! So spoilers!!!! Not really but yes.Ruby DixonShe does not disappoint ❌ 😔 but what he's alive.He's ALIVE 🔥😤😤😤😤😤😤😤🤬🤯.Do love morally gray MC yes but do I want him to get an Arc 😭😔 noooooo. And yes 🫡I will I read it. What does this say about me. That I like and trust Ruby Dixon 💝 so if you haven't tried any of her books and have somehow found THIS review HERES YOUR SIGN ⚠️⚠️

I really enjoy this series. The dragons are an extreme version of the genre of badasses who instantly turn into totally codependent fawning gorgeous men. (Because, after all, this <i> is </i>fantasy). It's also spared those glaring grammatical and spelling errors so common in romance.I do have some issues with the series in general, and this book in particular, as far as the mythology. It's doubtful the author will ever see this, but on the off chance that she does, here goes:SPOILER ALERT!!! The following is plot specific, so do not read unless you have already read the books.1) Emma claims that it's safest to be solitary, which is not even remotely true, especially for a female. Case in point is that she hides in a gas station, which everyone tends to hit up looking for gas. She has no where to hide inside the gas station, so the second that a biker gang predictably shows up, she gets caught. It is actually safer in numbers, where you can post guards, lookouts, divide labor, etc. With the tragically precarious position of women in the forts and among nomads, realistically, every female left alive would either be constantly pregnant, or a lot would die in or shortly childbirth without modern medical care or hygiene.2) Also, gas pumps use electricity to pump the gas from the storage tanks. Otherwise the gas would not flow upwards. Without power, jiggling the handle would never, ever get any gas, regardless of the existence of it in the underground storage tanks. The only way to access it would be with a mouth siphon or mechanical siphon directly from the below ground storage tank.3) The dragons lived in clifftop eyries, in the desert. the green lands were the Salorian territory. So, what did the dragons eat? They would require large prey but there's nothing to eat in the desert as it's described...certainly not enough to support a colony of dragons the size of school buses. Camels live in deserts, but they survive in small numbers. And camels do not tend to stay in the barren sands forever. They need the desert plants like thorn bushes to survive at least every few weeks. But there is zero vegetation described in the dragons' desert home. Nothing. So that makes no sense. Large predators require large prey.4) In the After, all of the mated dragons stake out territory and warn all other dragons away, mad or not. However, in their homeward, they lived together in communities. Why don't they do that here, where aversion to all others is described as instinctive? It's not until the 3rd book that the females finally really get a type of really spread out community going.5) If humanity is trying to survive off of packaged food from 7 years ago, then everyone is going to die. Or at least have hideously bad skin and teeth. In order to really thrive, they would need to farm vegetables and raise animals, because it's not safe for them to go out hunting. I'm surprised and disappointed that Dixon did not have these 3 resourceful heroines putting together a Jamestown, with tanning skins, crops, and livestock. Their idea of thriving was finding a big box store and living off of crackers, along with the meat that their dragon cling-on man provides. They are not going to live very long that way, and their pregnancies would be affected by the poor nutrition. The females would have all lost a lot of teeth after 7 years of no dental care and living off of stale packaged food.6) The living arrangements really bother me. Claudia's "home" has a massive hole in the roof for the dragon to use as an exit. That's great and all, but what about when it rains? This is in Texas, where they have rainstorms and sometimes tornadoes. She would live in a moldy sopping mess all the time, and be ankle deep in grit and dirt blown in. No one can go to a Home Depot and find a manual garage door to install? Also, those tall buildings would be structurally unsound from all the massive bus-sized dragons smacking into them and clawing them up. And...again...absolutely zero possibility of being independent food wise. You can't farm on a rooftop. Also, none of the plumbing would work. Water is pressurized. That's how you get it up to the top of sky rises. (See gas station pump problem.) The faucets would not work if the water utility company can't pump it through the pipes. It would never flow uphill let alone up to the faucet. And if it did miraculously still work, just from the water sitting in the lines - that water would be hideously dirty with bacteria, amoebas, rust, and all sorts of pathogens. It sure as heck isn't getting treated anymore at the water company. The humans, at least, would get very sick and the forts couldn't survive unless they dug some wells were they manually lowered buckets. Emma's garage "fortress" was the only one that made sense because they had a rooftop trap door that Zohr had to use in his 2 legged form. No massive hole so no water pouring onto their bed every time it rained.7) Has no one figured out how to use solar panels to generate electricity during the After? Wind turbine? Water wheel? Bicycle generator? Not a single engineer survived? Why aren't most of the survivors in military bunkers?8) The girls should be hitting up every bookstore, regularly, for homesteading books as well as doomsday prepping. There is a scene where Emma takes one book on survival. This should be a regular excursion with the same urgency as scavenging for cookies, at the very least. People thrived in the Pleistocene with Smilodons constantly trying to eat them. Why can't someone, somewhere, figure out how to produce their own food? Or stockpile a library on survival? Why hasn't anyone taught their dragon how to read?9) No, the only reason why people wear clothes is not so that biker gangs won't see them naked and get ideas. It's to protect against sunburn and damage to our delicate bits. Perhaps dragons don't get sunburn. But the female humans would get skin cancer if they walked around naked all day without sunscreen in Texas. So far, none of the females in any of the 3 books have come up with a practical explanation for why humans wear clothes other than shyness and protection from leering. Also, no one in the past 7 years in any of the forts or dragon relationships has figured out how to make clothes yet? Everyone's either wearing rags or wearing clothes that are so 7 years last season if they luck upon an unpicked store? Also, wouldn't the male dragons want to at least wear a loincloth so their pee pee doesn't bang about painfully when they run in 2 legged form? It does get cold in winter in Texas, and they were adapted to a hot desert planet. Wouldn't they at least feel cold?10) Not sure I like how Dixon describes the female dragons as super bitchy. How did the males evolve to be beck-and-call guys, unless their genes have been henpecked to death? The female (red) dragons go pillage and burn for a week when they are PMSing. (Literally). They are looking for love, but that means they have to find a male to attack and try to kill. If he defeats her without killing her, then he gets to mate with her. BUT, in Dixon's mythology, in their home world, if he came on her back then it was a grave insult. So, I'm trying to picture how this worked back home. Every month, all the reds would go into heat at the same time and go bitch out on the guys, who would then subdue them and have sex with them, only to horribly insult them by coming on their backs, because finding a mate they respect and find worthy is so rare and special? That part doesn't really work. No wonder the females are so enraged all the time. They keep having one night stands with males who insult them afterwards. And why can't the golds subdue the reds in this world? Zohr said that none of the reds could find mates among the hapless men offered, because they expected them to fight back. So why couldn't any of the golds subdue them up to this point? It's clear that the gold can snap out of their insanity when they smell a female human, so why hasn't the smell of any of the reds caused them to mate and get clingy with one? The implication was that the reds burned the men to death because they were hormonal and wanted to mate with them. (New meaning to the phrase super bitchy time of the month.) So they were still feeling hormonal urges. There has been no explanation for why only the golds have been reachable, except for when Azar broke that rule and somehow reached multiple reds.11) In the first 2 books, it appears as if any dragon smelling any female will want to mate with her, and be her cling-on. Instant love for the dragon. But that's not what happened with the reds back home. So, are these girls really special or did the dragons just bond with the first female that they smelled? Would any girl do? In other books, the dragons' mates were in jeopardy of being stolen by other dragons, who I assume would also fall in insta love. In this book, it sounds more like they fly their scent, and their soul mate would snap out of his insanity and find her. I'm glad she's change this, but I hope she makes this more clear in future books that this is a soul mate pairing and not a pairing of convenience.12) I had a hard time where Emma suddenly decides that she wants to split up with the most perfect man ever. She claims it was because it would be safer for both of them, and more familiar for her to be alone. However, Zohr would promptly go insane and start eating humans again if they broke up. He needs her to stave off this strange madness afflicting all dragons who came through the Rift. Plus he likely wouldn't understand why his wings wouldn't work and would hurt himself as well as others. That seemed horribly callous of Emma to want to thrust him into insanity again.13) Azar wanted a mated dragon because he could only take control of a sane mind. He could not communicate with any of the crazy dragons. His plan was to get one to go through the Rift first to see if it was safe, and then get another one to ride through himself. Once his vest destroyed Zohr's wings, then Zohr should have been useless to him and of no further interest. Why would he chase a dragon unable to fly, and not Sasha's dragon? What is he going to do, build a ladder up to the Rift for Zohr to climb? How did he get the reds, if they would still be under the pull of insanity? That just undermined the whole plot of Azar specifically needing a mated dragon. And the reds killing men because they want a mate to fight back makes me really dislike the entire gender. Which is a shame because a red would have been a great subject of one of the books, such as saving the queen. All of Azar's efforts to capture Zohr seemed like a complete waste of time. Also, how high was the Rift? If it was high enough that the reds died of pulmonary embolisms or passed out from hypoxia and fell to their deaths, then the males wouldn't be able to reach it, either. Unless you have a rocket on your butt, you need enough air density to get lift. I also wish Dixon would clarify why the reds died. Was it passing out from hypoxia? Or else why wouldn't' they just fly away when they dropped to a low enough altitude? Is Earth's air leaking out through the Rift? Is the Rift not at such a high altitude in the dragon's home world side? Why haven't any more dragons come through if it's still open? Is the craziness ever going to be explained? After everything Azar went through to get home, he didn't even try to leave when they showed up? How did he have a bomb ready, complete with a timer, when no one can even figure out how to grow carrots? They don't sell bombs with timers at the neighborhood army surplus store, and you can't get any parts online. And I doubt Better Homes and Gardens ran an article on making one. It seemed weird that he smelled the dragon coming, and set a suicide bomb, rather than merely spraying perfume on himself and leaving. And I was ready to slap Emma for coming all that way to save dragon kind from Azar, only to sit there dumbly asking why he was such a douche. She came there to shoot him and then started arguing with him instead. She figured he was going to try something any second, and just sat there hemming and hawing until she realized he'd set a suicide bomb. He could have seized her mate's mind and turned him into a zombie at any second but she didn't rush to defend him. And when she did shoot him, why didn't she go for the head shot to make sure? Her mentor MUST have at least taught her to make sure in this post apocalyptic world.It's little things like this that snap me out of a story I was lost in. They're jarring. I wish that an editor had pointed this out, because the books could have been superb. They are still very good, and worth the read. But I look for books in which I completely submerge. I like fantasy mythologies that work. The authors set up worlds and rules that make sense according to that mythology. When the created world has these gaps, then it's like seeing the movie set.

We pick up around the same time as book 2, “Fire in His Kiss” with Sasha being taken and then rescued. Emma could have gone with Sasha and been free but stayed to free Zohr. She blames herself for his capture. Her brother Boyd and his slimy gang, along with Azar wanted to capture a dragon. I was so happy that Emma came to grips with what she needed to do to help and also talk with him. Zohr was as much as a slave to the darkness that fogs all the Drakoni’s minds. He was so thrilled that he found his mate. Now they are running from Azar.The stories are intense and so heartwarming. I love that we experience the emotions and uncertainty with Emma. She has been on her own for so long, she doesn’t know if this will work. She sees them parting ways and says it repeatedly. But Zohr knows he will never leave her or give her up. She is his to protect and love and care for. These two go through a great deal. Trust is a big thing. I am glad that we meet up with the others, Claudia and Kael & Sasha and Dakh. You know Amy was going to be the next in the series. Claudia can’t keep her sheltered forever. And we know who the next dragon will be, Rast. Then we have Melina. How Azar got away I don’t know. But now should we be concerned? Is he evil?

I generally really like Ruby Dixon. I’ve read the majority of her works, and they are always a good pick-me-up.That being said, I am not as big of a fan of this series as her others. I do really like that the books are longer than IPB, but I find the men in these books to be very cut and dry. It bothers me how uninterested in learning about humans they are. To the point that they cannot communicate with anyone except their mates. Also, in every book thus far, the mating doesn’t feel totally consensual. Each time, the women did not actually know what they were agreeing to.This book, I did like the FMC more than the past two books. She’s a little more badass. I lot more independent, and in general more competent than the protagonists before her. I’m not sure it’s enough for me to continue the series though. The next book follows Claudia’s sister, I think? And just based on the blurb I’m not totally convinced she’s going to be for me.Don’t get me wrong, these books are fun. They are quick and easy. They are fun and generally lighthearted. I had a good time, and I definitely will continue to read more Ruby Dixon (like I got an ARC for Bound to the Shadow Prince, and that was a really good time. Totally recommend) but I’m not sure I’m going to continue this series in particular.3.75/5

Emma and Zohrs book in this was good it has great suspense and personality drama along with plenty of spice. It was great that the other couples were included in the book. Along with two cliffhangers to look forward to read.

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I hate books with people on the cover, this book confirmed that again.

So far I believe Zohr is my favourite Dragon shifter due to his total devotion to Emma. Emma is a bit of a badass survivalist who had to survive an inadequate lost boy brother.

After the Apocalypse Emma is against her will together with a gang of evil bikers with a very mysterious leader. They use her scent to lure a dragon, Zohr, into captivity and make a evil contraption to chain him down. Emma feels guilty and thinks of possibilities to free the dragon. The only thing she knows of is to sleep with him to get him at least from madness to awareness. She is successful, but while she thinks, it was only a means to get him free and then separate, Zohr thinks Emma is his mate forever .......I really loved this book. While Emma is a loner and hates to be disappointed, she is also brave, courageous and caring. Zohr is a fearsome dragon, but he clearly has an altruistic streak. The storyline is full of suspense, particularly with regard to the relationship and also their enemies. I highly recommend this book.

Rating: 😍😍😍😍😍Emma & Zohr's StoryEmma is a bada$$. She has escaped from her brother, been captured by her brother, and found a way to keep under the radar ... well that is until now. She has found that dragons aren't so bad and she will do anything to help the one that is being held captive by her brother's gang and his new leader - a leader that just so happens to be a bad guy known well to Drakoni.Zohr's is a Drakoni male, and smells his mate, he wants nothing more then to claim her. But his claiming is a strange one. Tied and threatened to prevent shifting, how can he protect her when he is being kept chained with razors in the exact spot his wings are hidden. Shifting to battle form will take his ability to fly away, his freedom. But when his bond is formed at least he can talk to his mate - knowing she is safe is better then nothing right?When all the stink hits the fan they both must make choices to protect each other and to battle the evil that is on their door step. What an awesome plot! I can't wait to find out what happens next. Emma and Zohr's story is one of my favourites so far in this new world that Ruby has brought to life.