Review: How to Date Your Dragon

How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper
My rating: 4 of 5 stars


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Today's Book is How to Date My Dragon
*don't put too much weight in that name before reading below.*

So I did an audio book of this. The run time is just over 6 hours. Making this good for a quicker story that you want to listen to but maybe cause / don’t want to devote days to. Because of this though I can not speak to how it was written in the digital or paperback.

This book I found by accident and it really caught my attention in multiple ways. First, the title itself is interesting. 2nd it was free audio with prime membership (HECK YEAH!) **still is, I just checked.** And the 3rd reason was more to do with the subject matter. This book is about an anthropologist being sent on field research, in Louisiana. Yes, in the audio you do get some southern twang. You do specifically get a little bit of a feel of a more specific Louisiana cajun accent, however it’s not strong and you can fully understand it. It is more just slightly enough to give you a vibe. The author did her research for giving it the middle of nowhere swamp feels. I didn’t realize it while reading/listening to the book. It is actually a part of a series and is the first of 8 books.

So for my thoughts on the story.

Overall star review: 3.5 which rounds up to a 4 on the places you rate books. This is due to, I feel like this book may have taken me a while to get through had I read vice audio. There was definitely some stereotype plot that happened throughout. Though the book was set up to surprise you on some stuff, which depending how close attention you were paying would depend on if it was glaringly obvious or if it actually surprises you. I had a few moments where I became easily distracted while I was listening to this book. So I am not sure if that would have happened had I read it. I would call this book that is plot driven with some smut.

The smut: 2 stars on a 5 star scale. (it wasn’t supposed to be the focus of the book and you can tell that as you go.)

This book set the foundation of good world building, to draw you into the series. The book was given closure, sooo you get a HEA for this book, but you can tell the story can keep going (which it does being in a series.)

You get in this book, murder mystery, PNR, CR, based in the outskirts of Louisiana.

Would I read/ listen to the other books in this series? So considering at least from a glance they are free with my prime membership as audio. I will likely grab them in that audio form. I did like the general plot of the story. I would definitely at least get the second book of this series. However if it suddenly switched to a smut with plot from the plot with smut the series started with that may be where I end.

The narration I would give 5 stars. There were multiple people narrating this book, and it really helped to bring out the personality of the characters more. While the narrators were for specific chapters that meant the female narrator had to deepen her voice for the male characters in her chapters and vice versa. They did great with this. I also enjoyed the use of accents with this book.

Blurbage from the description of the book:
Anthropologist Jillian Ramsay's career has taken a turn south.

Concerned that technology is about to chase mythological creatures out into the open (how long can Sasquatch stay hidden from Google maps?), the League for Interspecies Cooperation is sending Jillian to Louisiana on a fact-finding mission. While the League hopes to hold on to secrecy for a little bit longer, they're preparing for the worst in terms of human reactions. They need a plan, so they look to Mystic Bayou, a tiny town hidden in the swamp where humans and supernatural residents have been living in harmony for generations. Mermaids and gator shifters swim in the bayou. Spirit bottles light the front porches after twilight. Dragons light the fires under crayfish pots.

Jillian's first assignment for the League could be her last. Mystic Bayou is wary of outsiders, and she has difficulty getting locals to talk to her. And she can't get the gruff town sheriff, Bael Boone, off of her back or out of her mind. Bael is the finest male specimen she's seen in a long time, even though he might not be human. Soon their flirtation is hotter than a dragon's breath, which Bael just might turn out to be....

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Review: The Reckoning

The Reckoning by Caroline Peckham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Now to Review This book! 

This is the 3rd book in the series, and it is focused on a very pivotal moment. Which you would already know that from the title and if you read the first 2 books. 

My thoughts

This is it! The Reckoning. You hear about this through the first 2 (3 if you include The awakening as told by the boys) books. It is the pivotal moment on if the freshman get to stay at Zodiac Academy or if their time is coming to an end.  The book flows beautifully making it hard to put down, especially because you know going in to this book, it is pivotal to what will happen next. 

That is the primary focus in this book, the slight lead up to it the week prior. Then the week of and a short time there after. It is during the tests of the reckoning there are things that come to light about the sisters, and their order. 

 If you have a knack for figuring out things in books you will know what the cliff hanger is going to consist of in this book. I will stay that it isn't as cliff hangy as some books the sisters write. It is more of an OH MAN THAT JUST HAPPENED!! ( you may have predicted some of what happens in that last scene but perhaps surprised by other parts) 

I think depending on how much you have looked at through out the internet, book groups, and if you read ruthless boys of the Zodiac before picking up this series will determine how much you figured out about the ending of this book. It will keep you in that suspense of omg I need to know what next. 

The spice of smexiness did get turned up in this book. You are getting more scenes/ moments than you did before.Hold on for the spicy ride, both the twins are getting action. 

 You also get a new character that could possibly hold some significance, but reguardless his presense makes you start to look at another character differently.

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Review: Ruthless Fae of the Zodiac Academy Series

Ruthless Fae by Caroline Peckham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Now on with the review for this book! 

This is the second book in the zodiac Academy series 

Revenge is oh so sweet!
That came in a huge heap in this book. This book picks up at the exact moment we left off in the Awakening. This book is actually fairly action packed, on top of the continual world building and further character development. Making this for a smooth and quick read.

This book does turn up the volume on the smutty steam some. However if you are looking for more smutt and less plot ... thats not this book. This one you do get a scene with one of the twins. It is not filled with crazy details, but you see and know what they are doing and that is exciting enough for that moment. you do see many partners all together... but because they aren't the focus you get snippets of what they are doing in the background.

This book moved you out of the 2 character POV of the twins, and now all the main charcters are getting chapters. Many more new important charcters are introduced within this book.

Last pivotal point I would make is if you are reading ZA before Ruthless boys of the zodiac, to allow you to learn along side the twins you will get more indepth knowledge of the game of pitball finally.

Beyond that anymore details would be too much of a spoiler, but this one ends on a crazy cliff as that is the Twisted Sister's style.. and I just recommend have the next book The Rekoning ready for when you read this end because you will want to start it immediately.

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