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Five years ago Wall Street attorney Claire Green's twin sister Zoe was murdered in New Orleans, in a crime that had all the hallmarks of a serial killing but was never tied to any other murders. Zoe's killer is still free. Claire is haunted by the death of her sister. She works herself to the bone and avoids her parents, who see her dead twin whenever they look at her. Before her sister's murder, Claire had a normal love life, but now she finds it difficult to trust men.

To cope with the pain of losing her twin, Claire started a victim's support group named after her dead twin. Now the group's other members have pooled together their resoruces ande started a "lottery" in which they can "win" the opportunity to have those who victimized them killed. By the time Claire learns of this conspiracy, it is too late to stop it, and the latest lottery winner is Claire, whose dead sister the group plans to avenge.

FBI agent Liam Jameson, investigating this plot, follows Claire to New Orleans. Like Claire, Liam is driven by the murder of someone he cared about long ago, and despite the fact that they are at odds, the two work together to catch the man who murdered Claire's sister, and a powerful attraction flares between them.

On one level A Man to Slay Dragons is a story of opposites attracting. Claire is a Jewish Manhattanite who hails from New Orleans; Liam is a self-described redneck who grew up in an Oklahoma trailer park. But Claire and Liam are both more complicated than they seem at first glance. Claire is an attorney who considers breaking the law in order to catch her sister's killer, as well as a complex combination of fear and courage, unwillingness to trust and a powerful need to do so. Liam seems casual and tough at first glance, but he knows that he understands the impulses that drive the killers he tracks a little better than is healthy, and at the same time he still remembers all too well what it is like to be vulnerable and scared.

The push-pull between Claire's attraction to Liam and her fear of the violence men are capable of, and between Liam's attraction to Claire and the knowledge that he should not get involved with a suspect he is investigating combine with Liam and Claire's awareness of each other's contradictory feelings to create some wonderful sexual and romantic tension. Fear and desire intermingle here, as McKinney captures the resistance that accompanies attraction to a stranger perfectly.

I was impressed with several aspects of the book, including the vivid depiction of New Orleans, McKinney's rendering of the work of an FBI agent, and the questions that the book asks of its readers. Questions like: What is the nature of heroism? What is it that makes someone a hero, and what is it that makes someone a monster? Are Liam and Claire heroes or anti-heroes? Are women safe with men? And do women need men to "slay dragons" for them?

Instead of providing simple or superficial answers, McKinney shows that the world is not always a place where men are the heroic protectors and women are the princesses they rescue in the nick of time. There are more shades of gray than that here, more complexity. Sometimes the very things that bring Liam and Claire together turn into stumbling blocks in their emotional intimacy. As in real life, love makes these people vulnerable and building trust requires taking chances and making difficult choices.

It is rare to find a book that is as thought provoking and layered as it is romantic and sexy. For me, this is McKinney's best, and very possibly my favorite romantic suspense novel period.


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A Man To Slay Dragons Meagan McKinney 9780821753453 Books Reviews

I really enjoyed this book. It was the first book I have read by this author. It took me a while to get into this book, but when I did, I fell in. It was wonderful. Clair loving Zoe, missing her twin sister after she was killed, and feeling guilty about her dying and the fact that when her parents saw her they saw Zoe, and what that did to them, so she poured herself into her work, slipping further and further into isolation. All of that about ready to change, because the support group that she started has changed, deciding not to be victims anymore, but to take their lives back, with a lottery and hired assasins. But this can't work because she is an attorney and must uphold the law. Her sister's murder has left her untrusting of men, until the right man comes along. And really they are the same kind of animal. They both have tragedies early in thier lives that have forever changed them, and maybe with this understanding what they each feel, they have found a way to love and allow themselves to be loved. They are alike, but unalike. They are both law enforcement. He is FBI and she is an attorney, and for love there is no place like New Orleans, especially around the Mardi Gras Season. I live in Baton Rouge, but am from Tennesse, and not being from around her, I learned a lot about carnival season. They give and take, right into each other's lives, into each other's hearts. This was really a good book.
Wanted A man to slay dragons is how the article reads in the mercenary magazine. A vigilante group of women all suffering from abused crimes form ZOE. They want revenge against those men who have caused them or their loved ones harm. The way the system works is that one name is pulled out each time and the mercenary is paid to take out that person. However, these are not men who have been found guilty and the revenge these women seek may just execute the wrong suspect. The police know the group is involved and the victim's sister wants nothing to do with Zoe's actions.

The killer is revealed too soon and the romance is weak. Frankly, it is not much more than an okay book checked out from the library. Not worth the money to buy only to forget the characters and their story soon after.
Claire is a high powered New York attorney in self-imposed exile from her family in New Orleans, unable to come to grips with the murder of her sister and its impact on her family. She becomes entangled with a secret society which uses a lottery to offer the victims of crime their opportunity for revenge. Her life intersects with that of Liam, an FBI agent assigned to investigate the revenge ring, and a sadistic serial killer who collects souveniers from his victims. Against the backdrop of carnival New Orleans, the reader is treated to a memorable tale of good and evil, love and hate, romance and homicidal sexual obsession.
This is my favorite of Ms. McKinney's books; different from her earlier works, it's not at all historical in the classical romance sense, but down to earth and populated with characters with the strengths and flaws of real people in contemporary times. As a result, it moves faster and with freshness. Good and evil; black, white, and shades of gray; love, lust, ugliness - it has it all, crafted a little like a modern day fairy tale. I recommend it highly!
I love it
Five years ago Wall Street attorney Claire Green's twin sister Zoe was murdered in New Orleans, in a crime that had all the hallmarks of a serial killing but was never tied to any other murders. Zoe's killer is still free. Claire is haunted by the death of her sister. She works herself to the bone and avoids her parents, who see her dead twin whenever they look at her. Before her sister's murder, Claire had a normal love life, but now she finds it difficult to trust men.

To cope with the pain of losing her twin, Claire started a victim's support group named after her dead twin. Now the group's other members have pooled together their resoruces ande started a "lottery" in which they can "win" the opportunity to have those who victimized them killed. By the time Claire learns of this conspiracy, it is too late to stop it, and the latest lottery winner is Claire, whose dead sister the group plans to avenge.

FBI agent Liam Jameson, investigating this plot, follows Claire to New Orleans. Like Claire, Liam is driven by the murder of someone he cared about long ago, and despite the fact that they are at odds, the two work together to catch the man who murdered Claire's sister, and a powerful attraction flares between them.

On one level A Man to Slay Dragons is a story of opposites attracting. Claire is a Jewish Manhattanite who hails from New Orleans; Liam is a self-described redneck who grew up in an Oklahoma trailer park. But Claire and Liam are both more complicated than they seem at first glance. Claire is an attorney who considers breaking the law in order to catch her sister's killer, as well as a complex combination of fear and courage, unwillingness to trust and a powerful need to do so. Liam seems casual and tough at first glance, but he knows that he understands the impulses that drive the killers he tracks a little better than is healthy, and at the same time he still remembers all too well what it is like to be vulnerable and scared.

The push-pull between Claire's attraction to Liam and her fear of the violence men are capable of, and between Liam's attraction to Claire and the knowledge that he should not get involved with a suspect he is investigating combine with Liam and Claire's awareness of each other's contradictory feelings to create some wonderful sexual and romantic tension. Fear and desire intermingle here, as McKinney captures the resistance that accompanies attraction to a stranger perfectly.

I was impressed with several aspects of the book, including the vivid depiction of New Orleans, McKinney's rendering of the work of an FBI agent, and the questions that the book asks of its readers. Questions like What is the nature of heroism? What is it that makes someone a hero, and what is it that makes someone a monster? Are Liam and Claire heroes or anti-heroes? Are women safe with men? And do women need men to "slay dragons" for them?

Instead of providing simple or superficial answers, McKinney shows that the world is not always a place where men are the heroic protectors and women are the princesses they rescue in the nick of time. There are more shades of gray than that here, more complexity. Sometimes the very things that bring Liam and Claire together turn into stumbling blocks in their emotional intimacy. As in real life, love makes these people vulnerable and building trust requires taking chances and making difficult choices.

It is rare to find a book that is as thought provoking and layered as it is romantic and sexy. For me, this is McKinney's best, and very possibly my favorite romantic suspense novel period.