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| Playing with Fire (Silver Dragons, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Katie Macalister
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 1715
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0451223780
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451223784
ASIN: 0451223780
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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Starring the Dragons Of The Aisling Grey, Guardian Novels
Gabriel Tauhou, wyvern of the silver dragons, has found the one woman who can withstand his fire. Too bad May Northcott is already bound to a demon lord. But when the demon orders May to steal one of Gabriels treasuresan immensely important relic of all dragonkin Gabriel has to decide which to protect: his love or his dragons.
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 4.5 Stars - Gabriel's 'Fire' gets the Silver Dragons off to a Sizzling Start April 23, 2008
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Exploring another corner of the world of sexy dragons, guardians, demons and such from her Aisling Grey series, Katie MacAlister brings a new pair to the spotlight. Playing with Fire is the first in a new series starring the yummy silver Wyvern Gabriel as he joyfully discovers his mate, the woman who can share his dragon-fire in doppelganger and demon-bound thief May. Gabriel and May are not Drake and Aisling, so even though we pick up pretty much at the end of Holy Smokes (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 4) -- and the background plot continues the confrontation between the Gabriel's Silver dragons and Drake's brother's Black dragons -- this series has a different enough feel that it is not a rehash.
May is something we haven't seen in yet in MacAlister's otherworld. May was created by a demon lord from her naiad "twin" Cyrene's shadow in exchange for her sister's "common sense", as a doppelganger this gives May the ability to shadow-walk to become almost invisible in the shadows which is quite useful her "career" - May is bound to the former silent film-star demon lord who created her, and forced to obey his commands to steal for him. May meets Gabriel when she stumbles onto Drake's estate while attempting to return a stolen item that had put a price on her head. Quite by accident Gabriel discovers that May is a wyvern's mate and seeks to claim her. The ever sensible May tries to refuse Gabriel, knowing the danger the demon poses - May has spent her life avoiding relationships knowing that should she take a lover the demon lord who wants May's body would likely order May to kill her lover. But Gabriel assures May that dragons are not so easy to get rid of and of course Gabriel is totally irresistible, so May lets Gabriel claim her in a fiery joining that literally burns up the sheets. But all is not smooth sailing for May and Gabriel, May will have to outsmart the demon lord or risk an eternity in Abbandon to avoid betraying Gabriel when her demon-lord commands a theft of a powerful artifact that will put all the dragons under the demon lord's control.
Gabriel is not as reserved as Drake or as controlling, so I enjoyed his relationship with May more than Drake's with Aisling. I liked that Gabriel was more willing to defy dragon etiquette and express his delight in his new mate and that he was unable to act with restraint in their romantic encounters. Also Gabriel's willingness to support May as she has to handle some dangerous situations in the book, trusting in the competence of his mate, and his willingness to place May's need to save her kidnapped sister over his need to acquire an object important to his Sept makes Gabriel a much more appealing love interest than Drake.
Much of the cast that we've grown to love from the previous books Drake, Aisling, and Jim are back in supporting roles. Since May isn't MacAlister's normal angsty impetuous heroine, Cyrene along with the ever irreverent Jim, the demon in dog form, serve to bring some of MacAlister's trademark zaniness to the story. Playing with Fire was a fun read setting up for more of Gabriel and May as they have some obstacles ahead of them as the story continues with Up In Smoke: A Novel of the Silver Dragons before they get their happily ever after.
 A Waste of Money May 19, 2008
5 out of 16 found this review helpful
I really wish that authors would finish one series before starting another one. This book was probably one of the worst I've read this year. I've read many of Katie MacAlister's books and thought they were great, but this one was the pits. Maybe if she would stick to one dragon species at a time it would have made this book better. It was put together terribly well and honestly I can't say I found the humor here very funny, not like her others. Sorry to say that this is the only book I'll read in this series. I'm not paying eight bucks for a book that's not worth reading.
Excellent Aisling Grey sidebar romantic fantasy May 6, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
While spellbound to the demon lord Magoth, naiad Cyrene created her doppelganger twin May Northcott to take some of the demands off her. Due to her connection to Cyrene, May is also obligated to Magoth. The demon uses her to steal valuable magical objects.
While on a mission for her liege, she is caught in spite of her skills to hide in shadows. Gabriel Tauhou of the Silver Dragons learns she is his soulmate when she survives his fire. However, although she desires the hunk, who somehow always sees her; she has other horribles besides her heart to contend with. Her twin worries that May is in menopause since she is no longer fun to be with; a powerful outraged mage has invoked the Otherworld law and set a price on her head for her head; a black dragon demands fiery satisfaction from an affront he accuses her of doing; and finally Magoth owns her.
HOLY SMOKES this Aisling Grey sidebar romantic fantasy will have readers rooting for the heroine who lands in more fiery situations than a fire spirit. The story line is fast-paced as May proves she can play lead instead of third fiddle. Fans of the series will enjoy the first feature length Silver Dragons tale as Kate MacAlister proves her skill as a magician when PLAYING WITH FIRE, she places Aisling in a secondary role yet enchants her audience.
Harriet Klausner
looooooooovvvvved it! May 8, 2008
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
Now this is more like it! This is the quality of work I expect from the fantastic Katie! I loved it, it was so much fun to read. Read it in one sitting. Great job! I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Where's the ending? June 8, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The story I would give 5 stars if there had been an ending, however the author left everything unfinished and hanging at the end with the story apparently continuing in a book due out in October. Perhaps this is the way this author usually writes her books but as this was the first one I've ever read I was actually a little angry to discover that I wasted the time to read a 331 page book that was deliberately written without an ending. The only way I would recommend these books is to read them once the entire series has been printed. I don't mind series in general but I've never run across a novel in which the main character's storyline wasn't resolved in THAT particular book. What a shame because the story and characters were funny and interesting but I doubt I'll remember to look for the continuation 3 1/2 months from now.
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