Line #3 Literature/DragonAndDamsel


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3	''Dragon and Damsel'' is a paranormal teen romance novel, featuring a budding romance between a dragon and a human. It was published as an eBook in July of 2020 by Ashley Kat, and can be found here: [[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dragon-and-damsel-ashley-kat/1137411409?ean=2940163074525 Dragon and Damsel]]
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5	Bernadette Blaumeer is a young woman living in the small, rainy town of Edmonton. Her days seem to blend together: working, reading, and getting nagged about why she isn't making any art anymore.
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7	But one day, her younger sister Celia goes missing, and she has to travel to the “haunted” castle nearby and bring her back. But once they make it home, the occupant of the castle—a real, living dragon—reveals that he followed them, and that Celia has taken something from him. Bernadette agrees to take Celia’s punishment and travels with the dragon back to the castle. Though she's now imprisoned in the old castle, could she perhaps find happiness here...and maybe even romance?
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10	* AlliterativeName: '''B'''ernadette '''B'''laumeer
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12	* AssholeVictim: Edward. [[spoiler: He gets hit by lightning, falls down a tower, and is sent to the hospital…after he rallied the town to raid the castle and kill a creature he was told was intelligent.]]
13	* BeastAndBeauty: Azrael the Third, a large, dark male dragon with a bad temper, and Bernadette, a human female with a slightly less bad temper.
14	* BerserkButton: Azrael’s is bringing up other dragons—specifically that he’s the only one in the castle.
15	* {{Bookworm}}: Azrael and Bernadette are both this.
16	* BreathWeapon: Being a dragon, Azrael is able to breathe fire. [[spoiler: The hidden painting]] implies that some subspecies of dragon have different breath weapons, with frost coming out of the white dragon's mouth and lightning coming from the yellow dragon's.
17	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Dragons come [[spoiler:or came]] in a variety of colors. The color of their scales indicates what types of magic they specialize in.
18	* DarkIsNotEvil: Azrael the Third has dark green, almost black scales, and is proficient in shadow magic. He might seem like a cold-hearted jerk, but he’s also a decent healer, doesn’t like to see Bernadette in pain, and shares his library and his life with her.
19	* DragonHoard: Azrael has piles of gold, silver, and gems in the castle, mostly kept in his TreasureRoom and under his bed...and collects other shiny things.
20	* DragonRider: Later in the story, Azrael allows Bernadette to ride on his back.
21	* HangingByTheFingers: Bernadette ends up in this position after nearly slipping and falling down one of the castle towers. [[spoiler: She loses her grip, but is rescued before hitting the bottom.]]
22	* ImprovisedLightningRod: [[spoiler: Edward's rifle and armor unintentionally become this at the climax, leading to his defeat.]]
23	* InterspeciesRomance: Develops between Azrael and Bernadette.
24	* HauntedCastle: The children in Edmonton believe the castle in the hills is this. There aren’t actually any ghosts—just a dragon who scares out visitors.
25	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Azrael the Third is temperamental, and gets angry if Bernadette brings up certain topics or investigates things personal to him. But he never attacks her, saves her life even after she [[spoiler: entered his family tomb]], and heals her wounds.
26	* LastOfHisKind: Azrael isn’t sure whether or not he’s the last of the dragons. [[spoiler:At the end of the book, there’s a sign he might not be]]
27	* LimitedUseMagicalDevice: Shed dragon scales can act as this, having some residue of magic inside them...enough for even humans without magic to cast one or two spells, or be used for alchemy.
28	** [[spoiler:Bernadette]] manages to cast two spells with one scale—one to blend into shadows, and a healing spell.
29	* MirrorCharacter: Azrael and Bernadette find out they’re this. They can both be snarky, both love books, and [[spoiler: both know the pain of losing their parents.]]
30	* NoodleIncident: Apparently, Bernadette worked a cash register once in the bookstore. Edward came by...and whatever happened, Azrael thinks is funny, while she is still slightly embarrassed and annoyed about it.
31	* PromotionToParent: Alice, Bernadette’s older sister, takes on this role for Bernadette and Celia [[spoiler: after their parents die in a car crash.]]
32	* SavedByThePlatformBelow: Subverted. Bernadette flails and tries to grab another platform as she falls down a tower, but just gets her hand scratched for her efforts.
33	* SoftWater: Subverted. Bernadette almost slips and falls a great distance into an underground lake, and both she and Azrael realize that hitting the water from that height would be deadly.
34	* StarvingArtist: Julie has shades of this.
35	* StepfordSnarker: Bernadette has shades of this. [[spoiler: After her parents die in a car crash]], she becomes numb and pained. One of her reactions to this is to become snarky about pretty much everything.
36	* {{Transmutation}}: Azrael can use magic to transform his shed scales into large gold, silver, and bronze coins.
37	* TreasureRoom: One is in the castle and is where Azrael keeps most of his gold and valuables. It's hidden behind a wall that only allows dragons to pass through.
38	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:Edward]] goes temporarily mad after trying to read a spell from a spellbook (without having any magic to use).
39	** [[spoiler: Bernadette]] is able to use a dragon scale to power a spell she's casting, preventing insanity...but does get trapped in a loop, repeating the spell over and over as the magic is used up.
40	* WrittenByTheWinners: The school play in the prologue. [[spoiler: Sir Edmond didn't act alone, and his actions to get into the castle and slay the dragon weren't exactly heroic, except in maybe the village's eyes.]]

Context Literature / DragonAndDamsel