Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: A Dragon’s Fortune
SERIES: Magic Emporium #3
AUTHOR: Sam Burns & W.M. Fawkes
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 162 pages
RELEASE DATE: January 28, 2021
BLURB:
Cillian Roarke is the world’s sweetest dragon. He’s a great boss, a good person, and he spends his days making honey-glazed caramel treats in the shape of bunnies for his bakery, Honey Bunny. Still, the highlight of every day is watching the adorable college student who’s Much Too Young For Him stuff his face full of Cillian’s sweet buns.
Finnick West is a college student who dreams of baked goods, much to the consternation of his figure-skating partner. She’s not offended by the temptation, but by Finnick’s continuing failure to ask out the cute baker. With pressure from all sides, Finn knows it’s time to take something for himself, if only he can catch Hot Baker’s eye.
While the two of them work up the nerve to ask each other out, an assassination attempt reveals forces working to not only stop their interspecies romance in its tracks, but destroy everything and everyone they love.
A Dragon’s Fortune is part of the Magic Emporium Series. Each book stands alone, but each one features an appearance by Marden’s Magic Emporium, a shop that can appear anywhere, but only once and only when someone’s in dire need. This book contains dragons, ice skating, a whole bunch of sugar, and a guaranteed HEA.
REVIEW:
I absolutely love Sam and W.M.’s work because everything they do is just them. They don’t follow the norms of anyone else. They write what’s on their minds or in their hearts and it’s always, for me, come out in a wonderful story. I haven’t found one I haven’t liked or loved yet. Of course, I love that their stories are paranormal so that just makes it all the better for me.
This story, though, while a bit angsty, because you have to have a little angst, and while still paranormal, is one of the sweetest stories I’ve read from them. It’s a tooth sweetening story. Literally and figuratively speaking.
You take a shy, quiet dragon, wanting to hide who he is and just run his little cafe. And then add a figure skater who is trying his darndest to get the attention of said dragon (although he doesn’t know he’s a dragon yet), mix them up, throw in some tension from outside forces, some miscommunication of who may be gay or not and you end up with a cute little story where bunnies seem to make everything all better.
Cillian and Finnick are just cute as can be. Both are wanting each other. Cillian, being way too shy to speak up and afraid Finnick is straight and taken because of his skating partner, and Finnick who misunderstands Cillian’s shyness as uninterest. And it’s so adorable, because they are both basically tripping over themselves for the other and they can’t seem to get it right. But one day they finally really speak to each other and it seems to be the start of something good, until something traumatic makes Finnick question everything.
But the one thing I love about this story more than anything, is the reminder, no matter where we may come from, no matter what our family history may be, no matter who our family members may be, we have the choice to be who we are. We can make the change to not be who the rest were. We are our own persons. We have the choice to pick which road we will take. And I love that both Finnick and Cillian made up their minds to be who they are. Even when they learned everything about who was who and what was what, it never occurred to them to be anything other than who they already were. And both are sweet, adorable, compassionate people who love to make others happy. They have no desire for conflict, unless it’s to protect those they love. They just want to live in peace and be who they are. And who they are together.
I love these two and this story. This series has been so good and it’s been amazing to see all the parts come together.
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