04/17/10 
Ron will be reading at the Spokane GetLit! festival on Saturday, April 17, 1:00 p.m. at Auntie's Bookstore.  More details available here:  http://outreach.ewu.edu/getlit/569.xml

410media.com  08/02/09

"I was sucked into Ron Dakron's prose and the world he created.  I read the rest of the book in one sitting because he had created a world I found interesting.

This is clearly a book better than the sum of it's parts. I do recommend that you check it out and ... let yourself get sucked into the tale Dakron is weaving."

SFSite.com's John Enzinas reviews Mantids

The real star of the book is not the narrator but the writing.  Dakron is a poet and his skill with words makes this book shine.  He pulls all of your senses in while describing a world awash with giant, man-crazy, killer mutant bugs who think like the humans they once were.  How can you not respect that level of skill?.... Read this book for the prose .... It's worth it.  

Bookfetish.org gives Mantids 2-1/2 stars--and reviews it twice:

I am making a second attempt to review this title; I apparently had not imbibed enough coffee  the first time around . . . . I still don’t know what to think of Mantids and it still is sort of funny and annoying . . . . I think it's because any kind of strange a guy can get is good strange, even if it’s literally strange.
 

The Midwest Book Review goes Buggy Re Mantids::

Insects were never thought of by anyone as 'sexy'.  "Mantids" takes a look into the love life of the mantis, and a certain male of the species who can't seem to get enough due to a certain pill . . . . Making no acclaims to being highbrow, Dakron draws from many sources in order to provide his readers with a side-splitting adventure that'll give anyone the much needed laugh they deserve in life.  "Mantids" is a must for humor readers seeking something with a twist.
 

Adam Groves at The Fright Site gives Mantids a thumbs-up review: 

[Ron Dakron's work] is among the very small cadre of experimental fiction whose substance actually matches its style. . . . [Mantids] is lively and funny, with a spot-on portrayal of the Pacific Northwest punk subculture amid all the insanity--and really: perverted sex, punk rock, Viagra, mutant insects, cannibalism, perpetual erections...what more could you possibly want?