Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 (None of the scenes were super long)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Yes
Perspective: Third person from hero and heroine
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: No

Should I read in order?
This is the first book in Fay’s Dragon Lords series, but ideally you should go and read the prior series - this one is a spin off from. I felt a bit thrown into the story here and was also wondering about a few things that were probably answered in previous books of the other series.

Basic plot:
Juniper goes for a hike in wooded upstate New York and comes across what, as she she finds out as it hurtles her across the galaxy, is a space ship.

Give this a try if you want:
- Science fiction romance
- Alien setting
- human heroine/alien hero
- some light other woman situations
- a bit of higher tech than Earth
- bit of a class difference feel
- hero washes the heroines hair
- higher steam – 5 scenes but they aren’t super long (but neither is the book’s page count)

Ages:
- Hero is about 50, didn’t see heroine’s mentioned

First line:
Fire rained down over the lush canopy of an ancient forest.

My thoughts:
I do recommend reading the prior series as this is a spin off series. I didn’t realize this when I started it and definitely felt like I was missing a few things and people were discussed/remembered from prior books. Overall the romance itself stands alone though so if you don’t mind missing a bit of the side character knowledge and world building then it’s fine to pick this up alone.

I didn’t love all the Earth references in the beginning...Star Trek, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc and some things about the writing. There was quite a bit of snark and banter that I wasn’t into, and some other woman situations that came off to me as a bit immature..but that’s just personal preference for me.

I did appreciate the steam in the book and thought the knife grappling scene in the beginning was a good tension builder. But by the end of the book I found myself just wanting something more from the world building and characters. I’d try this author again in another series and see how I felt.

Cock/Hero Stats:

-Hero is a dragon shifter and can transform at will
- I think the cock is normal, just big

Quotes/thoughts:

Without thinking, he supported her by cupping her backside...gripping warm flesh. Her body jerked at his touch and they faced each other in tense silence.
Then her eyes flashed dangerously. “Get your hands off my ass.”
“Get your legs off my waist,” he countered roughly.
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“Different? No. I’m the worst of them all because I’ve seen more of you than any of them. I’ve had you on top of me.” When her mouth parted, he leaned down to mutter in her ear, “And I want more.”
 

Content warnings:

- Death of father for hero
- Mention of abusive father for heroine
- Child abuse

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex? No I don’t believe anything is mentioned
30% - 🔥 kisses, fingering for her in a hallway then they move to the bedroom for oral for her and missionary
47% - 🔥 kisses, blow job which he blows on her boobs in a meadow
63% - 🔥 hero ties her to the bed, oral and fingering for her
68% - 🔥 shower sex
84% - 🔥 kisses, thank god you’re alive missionary sex