A huge thank you to the author, Netgalley, and Orbit Books for providing this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

As the third book in this series, it had a lot riding on its shoulders. And as a whole, it did its job perfectly. The romance build-up felt natural, and Dante was an easy love interest to root for (most of the time). Cherry was a fun FMC and I enjoyed spending the majority of the novel in her head, especially as I felt a great deal of the time she reacted the most appropriately to the situation(s) at hand. She leveled out Dante’s….Danteness… well, and once they started being on the same page with everything I thought their romance was cute and well-done. And it was fun to watch Dante learn how humans do things, as he was somehow even less prepared for a human wife than Fallon.

I felt this one was written slightly better than the second, but I enjoyed the plot to the first one more than this one. However, overall this was an enjoyable contribution to this series and I had fun reading it - which is all I really ask for, really.

I had some complaints, and I’ll list them here, but they don’t overall take away from the enjoyment of the story nor do I think they should deter anyone from reading. If you liked the first two books in this series, you'll like this one just as much. It's fun, it's cute, it's sexy - and we get to vicariously live through Cherry of having a rich dragon husband to basically sugardaddy her. So, really, what else could we want?

Also. I know everyone keeps saying this is the last book. But. BUT. Ma’am. You can’t mention Ambrose and then add ANOTHER LAMIA here, and not expect me to keep asking for a lamia romance. Dragons and werewolves are cool and all. But please. PLEASE. Give me a snake man. (You even mentioned that they have 2 dicks!! C’mon, please, stop holding out on us!)


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Okay. Spoilers ahead. Reader beware, and all that.

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1. HE JUST BITES HER????? I gotta be honest, that was the biggest issue with this “kidnap and slowly fall in love” romance, here. I honestly think it would have been better if he didn’t bite her at the first opportunity, because I spent the entire novel not knowing if Cherry actually liked him at all, or if she was just aroused. I thought it could have worked without the instant sexual attraction fed by the bite, and just have her attracted to him, anyway (like with Cin and Brie). And then, no one else had the “YIKES, MAN” response to him biting her without consent that I did. Like, Felix was already on thin ice but at least by the time HE did, Brie already said she’d be okay with it and he was a little insane on the love potion - even before Dante gets drugged he’s already thinking of just finding a woman and biting her first (despite the other demons being like “humans don’t work that way, do NOT do that!”) I just felt like this entire book could have been essentially the same, even if that part was taken out.

2. The other dragon’s reasoning was bullshit, and Cherry immediately accepted it AND invited him over? No. Also, if that were the case, why the FUCK did he attack Dante? Bro. And why did he kidnap her in the first place? None of this makes sense.

3. Cherry was a bit too lackadaisy about finding out her family is fine and that everyone is okay - the fact that she didn’t immediately want to go over ASAP after 5 years is insane.

4. I kind of feel like the author didn’t really think about what 5 fucking years in essential isolation would do - I think if we were going this “princess in a castle” route, we should have Sleeping Beautied it. Then the other dragon’s reasoning would make sense - his minions accidentally kidnapped her and put her in an enchanted sleep, he didn’t know where she lived but just wanted to keep her safe anyway. Voila.

5. The talking sword came back. Wish she didn’t.

6. Bro? The cat???? What.
Also, I didn’t think the cat subplot was necessary considering we already got the “kidnapping demons and forcing them to bloodsport” plot. But, I digress.

7. Gotta be honest here. Up until this book I thought Cherry was kidnapped as a child. Apparently I didn’t read the first book closely enough, but I thought she was like. A child. So this book was a bit of a “*insert Tim Allen heuuuuh sound here*” moment for me.