I am especially thrilled to present today's review for you. I've been preparing for this for a while, went out and asked someone whose reviews I particularly enjoy and asked that person to give a review for this story that I personally LOVE!

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As I mentioned, one of the benefits, or Thank You's, for Premium members is some exclusive content and recently, the Radiant Renee Stevens finished posting her story, Challenging Fate. I asked Joann414 if she would consider reviewing this story, and was thrilled when she agreed - actually, her exact words were "I fell in love with the story."

With that - here is Joann's review of Renee's Challenging Fate.

Reviewed by: Joann414
Status: Complete
Word Count:24,946

If you are like me and I am sure many other readers ,you have that certain genre or storyline that you look for in a story. Until I found GA, I had no interest whatsoever in fantasy. But, I ventured off into a story with unicorns and fell in love with it, so I decided to try dragons and found that many great stories are fantasy, and Challenging Fate is one of them.

Cyan and Ryder are the two men/dragons in this story that keep you invested throughout the tale.

Cyan is of the Warrior clan, but is spurned by his family and clan after is he shifts and shows his dragon side in his early teens and he is a blue dragon. The blue dragons are believed to be evil and even turn against their own family and clan.

Ryder is of the Peacemaker clan, who are not allowed to associate with the Warrior clan, but do not see the blue dragon as evil.

Several years after being outcast by his family and clan, Cyan happens upon Ryder being what appears to be brutally tortured by a wizard. He rescues Ryder from his captor, and the story becomes even more intense as the two try to sort out their feelings, the other's feeling, and how they feel being together. Sounds like a lot huh, but you have to remember that you are not only dealing with human emotions, but also the strength of a dragon in each of these characters.

Once I started this story I did not stop reading. I read it at one sitting and was very sad to see it come to an end. The author makes you want to hug, slug, and kiss both Cyan and Ryder. This is one of the best stories that I have read here on GA. So go read and let Renee know how much you enjoyed her tale of the fates of the two man/dragons.

Thank you Joann414 for the review, and I am glad you enjoyed a story that is one of my favorites as well - Trebs!