Rating: 4.5🌈
Utterly charming. Kasia Bacon’s short fantasy stories are succinct well developed windows into her established, ever widening Order Universe. Each has its own unique narrative with a different location, couple, often complete with cultural references and fleeting hints from past events.
Always my main issue is they’re over too soon, leaving us wanting more with a couple we’ve just connected with, and learned to love.
Rago brings that home because this contains too such beautifully crafted characters, totally different, yet so perfectly balanced and defined that they’re immediately recognizable, real and breathtaking in their fated mates magic.
There’s Lieutenant Laahn Ĉortez, with a background the author so delicately hints at, one of a family he’s risen above and a recent traumatizing past as a prisoner of war in a brutally, cruel enemy prison. She fleshes him out as a highly respected soldier and man of character in just mere sentences.
It’s a fabulous layered portrait . We know exactly who Laahn is. But we aren’t prepared for the sheer adorability , the absolute magic that is Rago! The dragon shifter that’s recognized it’s mate and is crying out its need!
They are so sweet and perfect for each other. Laahn who hasn’t felt safe before now and the sweetness of the dragon warrior who has found his mate.
I was entranced by their meeting, charmed by their love, and wanted to know what happened next. And about Rago’s people.
Laahn and Rago are magic and I hope Bacon brings them back in another story.
There’s a guide to the Order Universe at the back but it’s not necessary to have read any of the other books to enjoy Rago!
I’m highly recommending it to all lovers of fantasy, fated mates, and dragons.
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Lieutenant Laahn Ĉortez is about to sit down to his well-deserved supper when destiny hits—winged, scaled and more than a little tipsy.
Rago is a fated mates/forced proximity short story from The Order Universe, featuring a puffing dragon shifter and a romp in the fencing hall.
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 