Wednesday, October 14, 2020

The Lion and the Mouse by Emmy Chandler [Review]

The Lion and the Mouse by Emmy Chandler
The Lion and the Mouse (Cosmic Fairy Tales) by Emmy Chandler
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: November 17, 2019

Cosmic Fairy Tales
The Hunchback
The Lion and the MouseKindle
The Frog Prince
The Ugly Dukeling
Contaminated
Jackie and the Giant
Escaping Wonderland
Rampion

Emmy Chandler
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
When she was four years old, Syrie Montgomery was nearly killed when she got lost on Ratera III, the global zoo her family owns. Eighteen years later, she’s back, kidnapped from her bed and abandoned in the location of her childhood trauma—the expansive Fetoji habitat.

Terrified and alone, Syrie runs right into a trap and finds herself at the mercy of the creature who set it—a huge leonine hunter who both scares and captivates her in equal measure…

Deep in the woods, Lohr discovers a rare bounty in his hunting net—a tiny, helpless human woman. She begs him to set her free. To keep her safe while she’s stuck in his habitat. And she promises to return the favor, as soon as she can.

Lohr scoffs at her offer. How could this mousy little human with blunt teeth and no claws possibly be any help to him? He frees her because he needs his net back. Which is when he notices that she’s soft and pretty. And that she smells good. And that she feels amazing tossed over his shoulder, when he carries her to his home. For her protection, of course…

The lion and the mouse develop an instant, sizzling chemistry—but can their passion survive once he realizes that her family is the reason he’s spent his entire life as a zoo exhibit?
Thoughts on The Lion and the Mouse: An alien lion-man and a human woman who's (unfortunately) a member of the family who's kept Lohr's people imprisoned on a planet far from their own.

Honestly, on paper they don't seem like they'd be an ideal match, but they are.

Syrie still has lingering traumatic memories of her misadventure in the habitat when she was a child. Lohr has lived his entire life like an animal in a zoo and has little love for humans. He only helps her at first because he's an honorable male who can't leave a defenseless human to die. He helps her later because he comes to see not all humans are terrible.

And, you know, he caught some feelings for her. Plus, he kinda likes the way humans get busy. And by 'get busy', I mean have sexy times. Come to think of it, both Syrie and Lohr are into the way the other approach sex and everything that goes along with it.

A few misunderstandings (quickly talked through, but still misunderstandings), a whole of consent, sexy times galore, and righting an old wrong that's gone on for far too long. I adore when alien men find their special human someone, so this one hit the spot.

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