My Dragon, My Knight

Running away from your abusive partner and found your sanctuary doesn't make you one hundred percent safe.
Ask it to Denny and Joy, his friend, his sanctuary, his lover after they're living together in Jay's house.
No, not like that, they're friends first, the 'relationship' came smoothly by time, not an insta-love kind of love.
They built it one day at the time. Until Denny feel really safe and can trust jay with his heart.
But you know about abusive, jealous ex-lover, right?
They haunted you, and you can't be feeling really safe until 'it's over'.
John Inman didn't write a lovey dovey light reading this time, but some tension after tension after tension made, ended with with a bang!
I wish the ending wasn't like that.
Don't worry about the Denny and Jay, but there's something precious in their life was gone after what's Joshua did.
This is a good story though. Not an easy one through the ending, especially the ending. Damn.

I really enjoyed this book. It certainly wasn’t like other John Inman books, but maybe that’s the best part. I liked Jay and Danny, they were both nice MCs and Joshua was a truly horrible human. I thought the first part before Danny left Joshua was a little slow, but it sped up really fast after. It was entertaining all the way through. I loved the description of the stained glass. I would definitely recommend this story.

Reviewed by Morningstar for Diverse Reader

I am a first time John Inman reader and although I thought the story was well written the writing style just wasn’t for me.



Jay was the owner and bartender for “The Clubhouse” a gay bar. He’s a somewhat older man who works hard for what he has and has lost a love in the past in the most tragic way. When he first sees Danny he sees the bruises and knows the lies he’s being told but a friendship is born. One that Danny defies his abusive boyfriend to foster.



Danny lives right now the block from Jay’s bar and it’s the only good thing about his life. He hates the class he’s taking but Joshua said he should. He has no friends because Joshua scared them away. He lives in fear for his life and the life of his dog because Joshua beats him. Danny thinks it’s him every time it happens. He can do better, be more. But that all comes to blows one night the fear is bigger than it ever had been.



I loved that the author was willing to delve into the abusive relationship that Danny was in on page but didn’t make it extreme. It was a big part of the story and it was even better having it in there. I think Danny was an accurate portrayal of an abused “spouse” in how he blamed himself and believed so much that Joshua loved him. And even though Jay and Danny were a decade apart and really were very different people they meshed well together in how they viewed each other and relationships and their banter was cute.



There was a slow build for Jay and Danny, from friendship to more but all the while they had been falling in love, fearful of telling the other how they felt. The move from friends to boyfriends was seamless and sweet but the writing was a little too flowery for me. As I mentioned before I did love their snarky banter which is what kept me reading. the middle went a little too slow and I felt like the two main characters should’ve known right away who was at fault for all the bad that was happening. Their denial was annoying and felt contrived for the purpose of the story.



There weren’t a lot of secondary characters and the few that there were didn’t play a major role.The ending was a on the edge of your seat suspenseful, heartbreaking, and scary. I loved how they stood together in the fight against Joshua and the end of the epilogue was perfectly sweet.

Danny and Jay
Jay realize he has to go on with his life, after a year that his partner suddenly died.... he just have to find some happiness...
He is the owner of a very successful gaybar The Clubhouse. And exactly that is the place he meets Danny for the first time.

Danny sitting at the bar having a thick jaw with knuckle bruises in it looking miserable. Jay as friendly as he is ask how he is doing and they have a honest conversation.
Danny telling him he deserved the knock because he was annoying to his boyfriend Joshua.

It did not stop with one blow, many will follow and finally Danny is leaving and flight to Jay.
Jay takes him into his safe house.

After some time pasts Danny can't handle it anymore and have to confess he is in love with Jay
and Jay sweet Jay his eyes damped.... They will never have to sleep alone ever...
Damn...now and then it was so sweet and heartwarming it made me cry.
And there was humor, the witty comments were really funny.

Only there is still the big bitch Joshua and what he has in mind....suspense is killing.
What started with a storm of violence, through a mild breeze of kindness ended like a motherfucker hurricane.

All the description of the environments were just so well done, all the little details told in a very special own way...I could visualize it lively...
The looking back on life was thoughtful and realistic all spread out at the right moments.
It was emotional but not overdone. It was steamy and hot. It was funny in a witty way. It was full of lovely sweet moments but also some ugly and angsty ones and with a burning tale...
Overall a appetizing read written in a appealing way!

The ending was epic it made my cry ugly tears.

~ ARC received from Divine Magazine given by Publisher ~