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Date read: July 22, 2025
Motham City Monsters
1. Mail Order Minotaur
2. The Gargoyle Grinch
3. The Billionaire Orc
4. Fake Dating the Dragon - Paperback | Kindle
5. The Kraken Games
6. The Selkie Santa
7. The Wolf Professor
8. The Silver Fox Vampire
Lilith Stone
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
This dragon is about to set her heart on fire!Thoughts on Fake Dating the Dragon: I haven't read any of the other books in this series and I feel like maybe (maybe?) I would have understood the underlying political (for lack of a better word) stuff going on if I had. To be fair, since I didn't read any of the other books, maybe I'm wrong about this, but there was more than a little going on behind the scenes that took me a bit to pick up on.
Shy virgin, Minerva Westwind always thought she’d grow old running the Westerly bookshop, on the outskirts of Motham City. But now the human authorities want to sell the building and she can’t afford to buy it.
Enter Dragon entrepreneur, Ethan Blade. His proposal to build an airport on human-owned land has stalled because of his monster heritage. Seems like he needs a personal relationship with a high-breed human before his bid will be considered. And he’s prepared to pay Minerva a hefty sum to play at being his human love interest.
Minerva and Ethan soon find out there’s more to their fake-dating arrangement than money changing hands. Ethan can’t believe how good having Minerva in his home feels. She even manages to calm down his Mom’s anxiety and his younger brother’s unruly behavior.
As for Minerva, Ethan seems to have a knack of making her feel… very steamed up. In the best possible way.
When Minerva and Ethan are required to prove to the human authorities that their relationship is the real deal, their chemistry is set to sizzle off the charts…
Find out if fake dating turns into true love in this steamy, sweet monster romance with a hint of magic and intrigue in the mix.
If I look at JUST the romance, here's what I saw: Min is engaged in something that could possibly derail some pretty big contracts if it were to get out. And she goes and tells her assistant about it because she doesn't like keeping secrets? I honestly thought the jig was going to be up at that point. But it wasn't. In fact, the whole fake dating thing didn't make any of the contract negotiations fall apart (mostly because Min and Ethan ended up actually falling for one another, I guess?) so the whole loose lips sink ships didn't play into it.
On Ethan's end, he's BIG on denying what all the physical things that are happening to him when he's around (or thinks of) Min mean. It took Min stating clearly that she wanted to be with him and basically forcing the issue before he sealed the deal. I'm big on consent, so the clear communication is good, but Ethan also tried to tell her (or strongly imply, I can't remember at this point) that she didn't know what she wanted and I'm NOT a fan of dudes telling women they don't know their own minds. So, plus points for the enthusiastic consent, but minus points for not initially listening when she told him she DID want it.
Like I said, there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes outside of the romance. I was also finishing this book when I was a little tired, so maybe I glossed over some of the League of Humans and Monsters stuff (I don't even remember if I got their name right if that tells you how tired I was). Fun, but maybe read the earlier books in the series first so the foundation has already been laid for this one.
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