I read and really enjoyed the first book in this series The Baby Dragon Cafe, so I looked forward to reading the second one, The Baby Dragon Bookshop (#1,352) by A. T. Qureshi. I must admit I was disappointed. Too much steam and not enough baby dragons for my taste.
It's a classic frenemies set up with two coffee-roasting company entrepreneurs asked to bid on creating a coffee shop within an existing and beloved book store, just down the street from the Baby Dragon Cafe. At first Emmeline and Luke refuse to work together, but of course you know the rest. Emmeline uses dragons to roast her coffee, Luke uses chimeras. There was a perfect opportunity to explore a whole new interesting set of mythic creatures, but it never really happened. Neither did any details really emerge about how each of the competitors envisioned the coffee shop fitting in and adding to the bookshop's appeal. Plenty of inappropriate business wear, though!
Steamy romances really aren't my thing; I was really after the fantasy element. Won't be checking out any further books in this series.
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