The Dragon King's Assassin

An MM Fantasy Romance

By: Amy Sumida

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

My life changed the day I tried to take his.

Mhavenna is a glorious city but, like every city on the face of Serai, it's run by Dragons. As a human, I'm on the lowest rung of the racial ladder here, as far from an illustrious Dragon as I could be, and I've made me peace with that. I don't like Dragons much, but like or dislike has nothing to do with my work. So when my broker offered me the task of killing the Dragon King, I took it. It was the sort of kill that could make an assassin's career, and I was certain that I had the skills for it.

I was wrong, nearly dead wrong.

The King caught me before I could finish the job, but instead of killing me, he made me his. I'm now the Dragon King's assassin. A warning and a weapon. A way for him to bypass his own laws without personally breaking them. But that's not all. He's tasked me with guarding him against future attacks. Who better to stop an assassin than another assassin? And who better to find the one who hired us? If only the King didn't have a body that made me salivate, a face that made my knees weak, and a pair of teal eyes that made me whimper. If only he didn't stare at me with those stunning eyes as if I could be more than property to him. Maybe then I could do my job, find the person who wants him dead, and save my own life. But I don't believe in miracles.

It was the best of gay novels, it was the worst of gay novels.

The reader is dropped into a fantasy world where there are no machines. Only Horse drawn carriages, no smart phones and all the current electronics - however there is plenty of magic glyphs, lightning gloves, and most of all, the planet is run by a super race of shape shifting DRAGONS. They rule over the humans. One day a young cute & virile human man/child is sent on a mission of no return. “Kill the Dragon King”. However one thing we forgot to mention is, in this world there is no “evil taint” placed on homosexuality. It’s logical like the real world-you either are or you are not. The Dragon shape shifting king and his human would be assassin become wildly infatuated with each other. It’s all written very well, including sex scenes, except the author keeps throwing in popular slang words and curse words always making you pop out of the story and wonder two things. One.) WHEN is this supposed to be. And TWO, all this blue cursing makes you feel like you’re dealing with some lowly street rabble, instead of the royal court. Plus, the male couple act so unsympathetic to each other it makes you think the author has never been in a real, loving relationship.

Surprise content

The AI was good after awhile the story was intriguing enough that I forgot it was AI reading it. I was surprised about the sexual orientation of the characters. A lable

Horrendous Narration

I enjoyed the story, but I feel like it was ruined by the narration. Inappropriate pauses, poor inflection, and zero distinction between characters made the story hard to understand at points. It also just sucked the life right out of it. I’m appalled that they chose to use mechanical narration.

Surprisingly good virtual voice!

I was sceptical at first about the virtual voice and then quickly pleasantly impressed. I had a highschool physics teacher that was more monotone and inflectionless than this virtual voice. It's not perfect and can get a little confusing where there is dialogue between two different characters. And it obviously doesn't perform the emotional scenes but it was impressive for a virtual voice.

The story was well written, planned out, and left me with all the happy feelings and determination to seek out the next book. Thank you so much!

great story, vertual voice decent

the story is captivating, love the characters, the computer voice did an ok job i guess: it mispronounced a word or two every few pages worth of words but other than that it did ok.👍❤️