Not His Dragon
Not This #1
Annie Nicholas
Publisher: Self-published
Publication date: July 25, 2016
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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Eoin Grant hasn’t encountered a female of his race in decades, and this crazy person’s scent declares her unmated. Fate set her in his path, and he won’t let this opportunity slip through his claws. No matter how wary she is of him. After all, how many chances does a dragon have at finding love? But fate can be a crueler mistress than his perfect mate. Of all things, she thinks she’s human.
Business is taking off for Angie Weldon. She put her freakishly sharp nails to good use when she opened her back-scratching spa in downtown New Porter City. The local shifter community pounced on her skills and she’s knee-deep in shed fur. By the end of the year, if lucky, she could afford to move out of her crappy apartment.
Dollar signs flash before Angie’s eyes when a dark, brooding stranger books her solid for a week but she notices the possessive fury in his glare. She’s been around enough shifters to know the look, and she won’t go down that road again. Angie is literally swept off her feet by the intense shifter and he wants more from her than she’s willing to give. She figures it’s best to avoid eye contact and back away slowly. Until he changes her life by insisting she’s a dragon.
My thoughts…
This sounded like such an amazing story. It had dragon shifters, were-shifters, vampires, and a dragon shifter that was raised to think she was human. This should have checked all my boxes, but it just missed the mark for me.
It could have been the timeline. This book takes place in a matter of days… not even a week passes before these two are in love with each other and ready to mate for life. Mind you, Angie has thought she was a human her entire life. So, the fact that she is in love so quickly with a guy she just meets threw me off. I get that she IS a dragon shifter deep down, but she should not be having this immediate urge to mate. Especially when she felt like the werewolf she had been dating was pushing her past her comfort zone with how quickly he was moving and how possessive he was being. As if Eoin (dragon) wasn’t 10x worse.
I honestly wish there was a bit more meat to the story. It just felt like a typical “independent female” who fights hard to hold the mega alpha male at bay, but randomly gives in. Don’t even get me started on the side characters that pop up for really no real reason. Maybe as a foreshadow to them getting their own HEA? Either way, this was a bit too light for me and left me wishing there was more to the story.
