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Wings of Ice

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"Wings of Ice" by G. Bailey is a captivating fantasy romance that transports readers to a world of magic and intrigue. Bailey's vivid descriptions and engaging characters make for an enjoyable and immersive reading experience. With its blend of adventure, romance, and fantastical elements, "Wings of Ice" is a delightful escape into a captivating realm that fans of the genre will thoroughly enjoy.

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liked this story. It is very readable, and a great page turner. Because the chapters are nice and short (but to the point), I kept thinking I will just read another one.

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I was a little confused as I thought this was the 1st book in the Protected by Dragons series but in looking the book up on various sites it is listed as #5. Be what it may, I did not feel at a loss of information if indeed it was #5. There are dragons and death. But, there are also teenagers in high school who don't care for one another. Imagine your football team in high school and the opposing team from the neighboring town. Now picture you have to be the only person to transfer to the neighboring town. Tension is one way of seeing it.

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This didn't have enough steam for a book described as an 18+ RH story, but I would also question if it had enough steam as the characters are in a high school setting. I loved the idea of the story with the various elemental type dragons and the female mc being the last ice dragon princess. I just wish the characters were aged up 5-10 years and there was a lot more steam!

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This book was honestly cute but maybe wasn't quite my cup of tea. I still enjoyed it overall but the magic was a little too out of my understanding.

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I like reading about dragons, and the blurb sucked me in but the novel was uninteresting and very difficult to finish reading. Do not recommend it.

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This a really good start to a Fantasy series.
The story is enjoyable and gives a good introduction into the main characters.
A good Teen Fantasy.

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Just not my cup of tea. The blurb certainly interested me but the story didn't. Like, not at all. I wish I could have been more interested in it.

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This book is positioned as romance/fantasy, but I think it’s more young adult/new adult. There’s some sexual content, but the heroine is 17, attending a magical dragon school, and being irresistibly drawn to “the wrong kind of dragon.”

Frankly, this was not the book for me. Dragca, Dragice, Isola (ice) and more punny names just pulled me out of the story every time. The cold open is sometime in the future and is violent and bloody. Then we get tossed back in time to the human world, where Isola is attending English class and dating a (dragon) boy. Then he’s murdered and her dad appears to sweep her away to Dragca. This is all in the first 10% of the book. It’s a lot, and by 20%, I still wasn’t sure why I read any of it.

Then the prophecies started, and I had to step away.

If you want a YA fantasy with dragons and prophesy and an enemies-to-lovers starcrossed romance And can ignore the corny names and cliches, give it a shot. I’ve read too much fantasy to be patient with this.

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I really loved this! While I didnt think this first one had any romance really, I think it sets up great for the next books in the series. I love all the characters, and the world building was really unique. It's like a reverse harem romance mixed with the academy trope, mixed with a shifter fantasy. I binged this series after reading this book, so the lines have kind of blurred between the books world building wise but I love the world this takes place in. The idea of the portals was pretty sweet, and the author cleverly mixed in light/dark fae and magic in a way I really loved. I'm obsessed with everything about this series, the only thing that dropped it a star was the fact that the writing was clunky pretty often. Especially this was noticable in the dialogue. It obviously didnt detract from my enjoyment too much because I rated it 4 stars, and despite the writing shes become a new favorite of mine.

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I received a copy of this from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book started out a bit rocky for me. I thought it was going to a be a cheesy, raunchy highschool fantasy romance novel but it quickly started to evolve. Don't get my wrong,it's still a bit of a highschool fantasy romance novel but it keeps continuing to build both the plot and the characters into something bigger and better. I'm actually addicted to this series, it's my guilty pleasure, and I've continued reading on in the series.
But this novel is all about set up. It introduces you to the hunky dragon guards, a very confused and alone princess fighting for her right to rule not get killed in in the process. The author gives you a taste of the chemistry of these 5, and its such a tease. The ending...oh the ending, you're going to need to go and get that 2nd book now.

I liked it and I'm enjoying the rest of the series too.

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I got sucked in to this story as soon as I started reading it. I have already read the next 2 books because I need to know how this series ends. This book is a quick read. Isola has been living with the humans for most of her life. Something happens and she is brought back to the Dragon World. She has to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. With 4 Dragon Guards at her side will she be able to move on with them or will everything fall apart? How will this series end and I am going to find out.



*I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review.*

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I thought from reading the blurb, this book will be great because…”dragons”, after all who doesn’t love dragons! A dragon princess is brought from earth to another dimension to fulfill her destiny as the next dragon ice queen, and placed into a medieval castle school with dragon students. There is magic and fairies.
There is a rambling back story that has a heroine with a tendency to be TSTL, and her guards who seem to be in love with her. Her guards are all secretive and tell her bits of her history, when they think she should know. It also ends in a cliffhanger with nothing resolved.

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I found this book very interesting with its many twists and turn. A great roller coaster story of dragons and emotions. Having the curses fully explain took a lot of tensions out with all the assassination attempts.

Yes, the book ends in a great cliffhanger. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

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Decisions, decisions... Royalty and choices form the basis of the book. Well written and a page-turner from page one, this is a must read for fans of excellently told paranormal romance stories.

The book's description is accurate but gives little away about the story.

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Isola Dragice spent 10 years in human world but when her dragon boyfriend (her mate and same as herself. ice dragon) gets killed by the fire dragon she knows it's time to get back to her world that she really knows nothing about...

It sounded so interesting that when I read the book description I just got excited and was waiting for my request to be accepted with my fingers crossed... Know my disappointed when after 20% of book I just had to put it down. The writing was so bad that I just couldn't continue reading. Story was going way too fast, there was no time for reflection and I felt more like it was the very first draft or even just a book summary. I usually like fast paced books but this was simply too fast for me..

I liked the plot just not the execution. Unfortunately I will not be reaching for the second book which I know is coming out soon. It's a quick read so if you feel like you can waste one evening go ahead and read it but if you're like me - you think that life is too short to read bad written books- go and find something else for yourself.

I am actually very sorry that I did not enjoy this...But how can you enjoy a book when you feel like you're punished when reading it? I am very sorry because I hoped this was going to be a good story. 4 hot guys and dragon shifters.... C'mon...

Thank you NetGalley for sending me a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Very well written. Whilst being a fantasy book it still manages to have relatable characters. The storyline was perfect and kept me entertained

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I received this free eARC novel from NetGalley. This is my honest review.

Isola is the Ice Dragon Princess. The only problem is that she hasn't been in her realm for many years - since her mother died. Her father sent her to Earth to live with humans and her mate, Jace, until it was time for her to take the throne after the Fire Dragon Rebellion was overwith.

But when Jace was brutally murdered, Isola was thrust back into her homeland, where all of the students hate her. I mean, almost everyone's family has been affected by her father and his dragon guard harming dragons that were part of the plot to kill his beloved wife.

And with Isola being targeted by the Fire Dragon Rebellion, her uncle (and ruler of her school) gave Isola her own dragon guard of fellow students: Elias, Korbin, Dagan and Thorne. All of which have their own reason to hate her, but have to suck it up now that they are her dragon guard.

But the more the 5 of them are together, the more that anger becomes attraction. Which CANNOT happen, because of a Ice Dragon falls in love with a Dragon Guard, the curse will be broken and they will cease to be dragons.

As the rebellion gets closer and closer to Isola, she finds that she is running out of time to learn her heritage and her future. All she knows is that she is not a typical dragon in the scheme of things...

Ahhh!!!! I LOVED THIS BOOK!! Sure, there were flaws, but I seriously loved this story and the guys are so swoon worthy, and Isola is so tough. I think that the world building could have been better and more background of the new world we are in would have been nice, but I was able to follow along well for the most part. And for some reason I kept getting all of the guys mixed up with one another, but it didn't take away from the fact that most are bad boys and they are craving a piece of Isola, even though they know that is not going to happen.

And I knew, I KNEW that if I started this book, I was going to need more because there is a CLIFFHANGER!!! Gah, those things get me every time... :/ So, yeah, I've already went and purchased the 2nd book, and will probably do the same for the entire 5 book series.

I'm so glad I got a chance to read this book, and I will definitely be talking up these amazing dragon characters :)

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This book was frustrating at the beginning but it quickly became interesting. I almost put it down at the beginning because it felt like I was about to read an AU fanfiction of Game of Thrones and Mortal Instruments. But the idea borrowing really only ran skin-deep. It’s the reliance on prophecies surrounding ice and fire, a person who is promised (more or less), and “dragonglass” weapons that are a bit too unoriginal for me. Also, we have an initial romantic interest named Jace, who has icy blonde hair and blue eyes... which, if i’m recalling correctly, is the same dude from Mortal Instruments.

Annnyyyways, I’m glad I pushed through the first part because the author doesn’t lean in to it as much as I thought she would.

The book’s main POV is Isola, a 17/18 year old heiress to a magical kingdom of dragon-shifters. There are two types of dragons: ice and fire.

Ice dragons has more power than fire dragons, but there are very few of them. In fact, we are meant to believe that there are only three left: Isola, her father (the king), and her infertile stepmother (no joke, that is literally all we get with that character until maybe the last 2 percent of the novel). There are prophecies about a couple of things that I never really tracked, except for the whole “royal peeps and their guards can’t get together in the biblical sense or else they lose their dragons”...oh also, the dragonguards can’t shirk their responsibilities to the crown or else they die. There were other prophecies but honestly I just didn’t care. TBH I’m just waiting for that beautiful loophole where Isola and her boys can finally get it on. But, I digress.

Isola is sent to Dragon Hogwarts after her “mate” Jace is muckducked. (Murder for non Office fans). After a couple of minor incidents, her fire dragon dragonguard is assembled: Thorne (distrust anyone with thorne in their name), Elias, Dagon and Korbin. They are all more or less cupcaking with our girl Isola, aka they are all flirty but reserved at the same time (for reasons of duty and resenting that they’ve been enslaved in this duty, yada yada). Thorne is basically the odd man out in terms of the inner-dragonguard clique and we are manipulated to believe that he is the only honest guy among his sneaky sneak cohort. THAT turns out to be false because, guess what? Thorne is actually the love-child of that infertile stepmother I mentioned earlier and some other dude. Her name is Tatarara or something—idc she was in the book for two seconds.

Anyways, Thorne (Isola’s stepbro—so no future incest for anyone who is keeping track! Phew!) kills the King and reveals he is also an ice dragon. He becomes king and claims he never liked Isola (I call BS). He then commands a seer to wipe Isola and her three other dragonguards’ memories and they are sent to the human world. The seer is important but i don’t feel like explaining why. This sets us up for the sequel, where Isola and her boys may or may not get things going in a UK high school. We’ll see.

As much as I seemed to like this book (and look forward to its future installments) I can’t help but hunger for more of what had been promised. No, I’m not talking about steamy sexy times—I like the slow burn. I wanted this book to give me more of the school, students, etc. who ended up as afterthoughts when it came to tension resolution. Like—she kind of got her classmates to like her but not really? Because she froze a few snakes?

Also, why did Thorne choose to make his moves on the throne when he did? What happened? I have other questions but I’m guessing (hoping) they’ll be answered in the next book.

Overall, this was an enjoyable read but it isn’t the best entry into the reverse-harem genre.

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Wings of Ice: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance. (Protected by Dragons Book 1) Kindle Edition
by G. Bailey
I received a complimentary reader's copy from NetGalley and am leaving a fair and honest review.

G. Bailey is one of my favorite and one of the best, period, writer of Reverse Harem Romances. She has a gift for keeping a story rolling while peppering us with moments of love.

Wings of Ice is no different. Isador, the Ice Dragon Princess of Dragca is dragged home for her own protection after a death of a loved one. There she is given into the care of four Fire Dragon Gaurds who are doomed if they fall in love with her. But her life becomes so important to them at a personal level that they may risk their lives as the know it.

Isador is a strong willed heroine, at times she does fall into the men must save her from her own best intentions. This does take away from her growing into the role of Princess and later Queen.

The family struggles are interesting but I would have liked more time in the actual court.

Our four Heroes are sexy and smart, and they work hard to not be the typical sweep in a save her type of heroes.

Overall, for a romance, it is a slooow burn. As a Reverse Harem is a very, very slow burn! But it is worth it enough for me to already be down with the second and on to the third book in the Protected By Dragons series.

4 stars out of 5

https://www.amazon.com/Wings-Ice-Paranormal-Romance-Protected-ebook/dp/B078JQ2SRR

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