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But, Aspen, never one to fear much of anything, tells him to get lost. If she knew who he was, she might act differently. But to her, Sid is just a reminder of a past she’d rather forget.


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  6. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.51 x 8.5 inches
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    February 5, 2016
  8. ISBN-10
    152389072X
  9. ISBN-13
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 5, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 152389072X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1523890729
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 12 - 17 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.51 x 8.5 inches
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Kimberly Loth has lived all over the world. From the isolated woods of the Ozarks to exotic city of Cairo. Currently she resides in the Missouri Ozarks with her husband and their spunky dog, Maisy.

She’s been writing for twelve years and is the author of the Amazon bestselling series The Dragon Kings. In her free time she volunteers at church, reads, and travels as often as possible.

She loves talking to school groups and book clubs. For more information about having her come speak at your school or event contact her at kimberlylothteam@gmail.com.

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UFam
5.0 out of 5 stars Dayum this book was on good.
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2016
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I LOVED it. It was like nothing I've read. The characters were well developed and the plot was good and seemed original. God! I just want to read the next book!!!!!!!

*SPOILERS*

And the ending!!! Omg. I mean, what will save Aspen? How will she get out of that situation? My theories: 1. She'll shout out to Obsidian, discovering some power she never had, and he'll hear her and save her. 2. Realizing her situation, she'll refuse to die, and this fury will fuel a change in her, this refusal to die without a fight... and she'll become a Dragon. That would be cool :) I mean, who knows what kind of ancestry she has? Especially since she attracted the attentions of the dragon king. I mean, Obsidian will be just in time to see the change. Maybe her link to Obsidian and the mysterious extra words in her tattoo created a rare link between her and Sid, allowing her to somehow become a Dragon herself. If this happens she might even get to be experience the Dragon queen trials at some point!! ... I mean this outcome would save them both from death. 3. (Worst outcome, might stop reading the book if it goes this way) Aspen dies, leaving Sid to mourn forever or somehow moving on and shifting the main characters. God, I would hate it if this happens. I want her to be saved, I don't want a martyr. It would be a senseless death. And I really like Sid and Aspen. Don't ruin their eternal love.
I kinda hope I'm wrong with my predictions and that Loth finds some other kick-ass way for Aspen to survive, because I'd be half disappointed if I guessed completely right :)
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Lisa B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Aspen and Obsidian
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2019
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This was so different than any other urban fantasy I’ve read, or even the other dragon books. It’s more for young adults, mostly teenagers in high school. But is also enjoyable for adults. Think a cross between fantasy and urban fantasy.

Everyone is terrified of dragons, but Aspen loves to watch them. She was once saved by one when she was a child. She’s forever snapping photos of them. But there is one that is eating humans. And dragons don’t eat humans. There’s a new guy in school, Sid. He also works with Aspen at a coffee shop. He won’t leave her alone and is smitten with her. Little does she know, he is really the dragon king and by the laws of his world, he has to live our ten years as a human. But if he gets too close to someone, he will become bonded to them. Aspen despises him but loves dragons. Also, her best friend, Tori, is crazy about Sid. This also keeps Aspen from Sid. Tori got on my nerves so bad. But she was like a typical teenage girl that is very popular and thinks she’s so beautiful. As more people are killed, we get to see Sid and Aspen grow closer. He finds ways to make her need him. He grows on her. Little does she know, he’s the dragon she loves to take pictures of. But will she care for him when she sees the brutal side of his world?

If you are listening to the audiobook, the narrator is okay. At first I didn’t really like her so much. Her voices is sort of nasally on some characters but as it goes along, I realize it’s supposed to be that way due to the age of some characters. So I started really liking her.
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Mikkid
5.0 out of 5 stars Quick read, enthralling new world!!!
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2023
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Great story and characters that pull you in to a new world. Try to avoid the reviews that short clip the story so that you can be surprised! This series is worth your time!!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Dragons!
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016
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Obsidian has been putting off his mandatory time spent in his human form, but when he is chosen to be the next king of the dragons, his time is up. He becomes “Sid” and must accomplish many tasks expecting to take 10 years, including becoming a high school student. While enrolled in school, Sid meets a fascinating girl named Aspen who is the only person he has met who loves dragons, instead of the fear most feel. Aspen wants nothing to do with Sid, who causes her anxiety and brings back painful memories, instead she just wants to take pictures of dragons and do her own thing. The two of them are thrown together by a fate neither could predict.

The book is really short, at only 120ish pages as per my ereader, and I was instantly surprised by how in-depth the world is that the author created right at the get-go. Based on the complexity, I knew that this few amount of pages could not contain everything that I felt could possibly happen and that I was reading the first in a new series that deals with Dragons set in an altered USA.

I liked the background world the author gave me, with dragons as an accepted part of the ecosystem and National Parks are where they live and can be seen. Also, the dragon hierarchy was complex, with color changing bodies, fire breathing and magical skills based on type of dragon, mating and living among the humans so that they can understand them better. I liked that the humans had no idea as to what the dragons were up to, or that they had human forms.

I think I liked Sid better as a dragon than a person when he was first introduced. I was a little put out by Sid having this intense long term relationship with his dragon-almost-mate Skye, and then within a month being interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with Aspen. Not only did Aspen tell him she was not even a little bit interested, but the fact he got over his “deep” feelings so quickly was surprising. He came off super strong in a stalker kind of way and I found it a turn off. For someone who can read other's emotions, he sure didn't seem to pick up on her dislike of him. Why not try and be her friend, and be happy with that? Nope, it has to be romance or nothing. Also, he fell kind of flat as a person for the first half of the story or so , but that is just in my opinion. He definitely became a more well rounded character once he started dating Aspen, but maybe that was the author's point, to make him more human as he has these experiences and feelings.

Aspen was kind of an odd duck. She hated school and could care less if she graduated, felt little sympathy for her twin brother who suffered from anxiety, lived like her parents were her roommates, kind of pretty much disregarded every rule and gave no cares to other's feelings. With both characters, it felt like their emotions were one dimensional and that they overall lacked depth, so it was hard to get invested in them at the start of the book. Also, I have no idea why Aspen was friends with Tori, who was a total tool, by stealing her stuff and changing her physical appearance to become Aspen. Can you say creepy? I wanted to warn Aspen to watch her back before Tori took over her life and disposed of her body. The situation with Marc was really terrible and I felt bad for her, but it did raise a few questions with me. Oh and when did it become ok to give your child anxiety medication laced ice cream? That one caught me off guard, yet it was casually referenced like everyone does it.

I hard a hard time getting into the book when I started, but by the middle, I flew through the pages. I feel bad saying negative things about the characters but I have to like the characters to really enjoy a story, so they were a hindrance to me enjoying the book when I first picked it up. Both characters became more fleshed out as the book progressed and I became more interested in the story the further I went. I think the world the author created was great and detailed with tons of potential and I look forward to what she will create next.
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Elie
4.0 out of 5 stars End with the cliffhanger
Reviewed in France on July 24, 2022
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When The last dragon expected become king and need to be human to do so.
Like the book, not so much the cliffhanger at the end. 😭
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Robski
5.0 out of 5 stars Dragon laws
Reviewed in Australia on July 28, 2022
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A terrific read which kept me enthralled. The story had lots of action and intrigue as Aspen learns her boyfriend is a dragon, and not just any dragon!
Worth following to the end to find what happens to their forbidden love.
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Raven.FP
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow what a start to a series x
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2016
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I am rereading Obsidian and the whole The Dragon Kings series before tucking into The Dragon Kings Chronicles, of which I have the first copy sitting in my library, YAY!!!

Dragons can actually walk among us, how amazing.

This is so my kind of book, I must admit that I adore anything dragon related especially books as I get to spend time in the world the author has put forth. I want to live in this world where dragons are among us. When I finished the book in the wee small hours I made sure to buy and download the next book in the series :-).

I fell in love with Aspen's character instantly through her love of dragons and wanting to be near them, I totally get that. She is such an outdoorsy kind of gal, so full of life and she feels could do better things with her time than go to school but she had to respect her mums wishes. He twin brother Rowan is the total opposite, he has anxiety issues, he does not like going out following something scaring him when he was younger. Then their is Aspens best friend Tori who is trying very hard to shape herself as an Aspen lookalike.
Out hiking one day Aspen caught sight of a black dragon. Pure adoration and excitement burst throughout her body. Sealing herself to the Dragon Obsidian. She totally dislikes the new boy Sid.

Osidian is a stunning black dragon, the new dragon king. To enable him to become a better king he must spend ten years as a human and learn their ways and cultures. Sid, the human form of Obsidian is determined to find and meet the excitable girl he met in dragon form. Once he learns that a girl named Aspen, who happens to go to the school he will be attending, likes to photograph dragons, he hopes she is the one he met.

I love how the characters have been written, you can actually imagine befriending them (well not sure about Tori) and omg the Dragons, I would want one for Christmas lol, they have been described so beautifully that you can see them perfectly in your minds eye.

What did I dislike, oh maybe there could have been like a few more dragons :-).

Thank you so much Kimberley Loth for taking me to your world, or one of them.
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Watson
4.0 out of 5 stars Easy enjoyable read, if you have kindle unlimited
Reviewed in Canada on September 10, 2022
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This review is for all 30 books in the dragon kings series.
Easy enjoyable read.
In all honesty I would have never read the entire series without being free with kindle unlimited. I'm accustomed to reading books that take days or weeks of casual reading or a series that takes weeks or months. This series takes about an hour per book so they are really more like a few chapters and not actual books. This seems to be the new way of selling books and while I understand it from a sales perspective, as a consumer and avid reader I dislike it. From a marketing perspective I'm confused. I've seen a few bad reviews because people read the first book(chapter) for free/promo and are miffed by how short the book is and how it ends. Now they won't buy the rest of the series and leave bad reviews. Now some people will see those reviews (of a chapter basically) and decide not to read it.. But if more of the story had been included(considated into bigger books), maybe those reviews would be better? I don't get it.

This is the only reason I give 4 stars. Had the series been consolidated into a couple long books I would be giving 5 stars no problem. It's a little annoying downlaoding so many books(chapters).

Otherwise, I can't fault the story. Well written characters and plots. Near the end, book 30, I noticed some grammar errors....maybe in a rush to end the series? Which was surprising because all the other books were flawless. And I've read a lot of books/series written this way (30 one-hour books) with atrocious spelling and grammar issues. So it was actually pleasing to read a series like this with good editing/proofing.
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T Beau-Griff
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2023
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Definitely a good read the only negative I have is it ends too quickly and abruptly needs more to the story
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