We love a good grumpy and sunshine and The Baby Dragon introduces dragons too! I’ve been looking forward to this FOREVER and so I’m so glad I finally read it. Now onto the others! Keep reading this book review of The Baby Dragon Cafe for my full thoughts.
Summary
When Saphira opens her cafe welcoming pet baby dragons, she isn’t expecting it to be quite so hard to keep the fires burning. But her young dragon patrons keep incinerating her furniture, which means selling coffee isn’t covering all her costs.
Local heart-throb Aiden is a gardener, though his disobedient baby dragon is a major distraction from his beloved plants. However, Saphira’s café gives him an idea – he’ll ask Saphira to train his dragon, and pay her enough to keep the cafe afloat.
They know they’re the answer to each other’s problems, but happy-go-lucky Saphira and gorgeous-but-grumpy Aiden couldn’t be more different. Can they find a way to work together – and maybe even ignite some fire of their own?
Review
The Baby Dragon Cafe was always going to be a cozy fantasy favorite. I love Saphira and how she’s struggling to keep her cafe afloat. And the same time she has this love of baby dragons even though she doesn’t have one of her own. This dual POV fantasy romance is so sweet. I loved how Saphira is trying to have her cafe succeed. Even more so, The Baby Dragon Cafe is about proving ourselves to others, but more important to ourselves. Both Aiden and Saphira have these images of who they have to be – or not be – and let what others think, and what we think they think, impact us.
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While I think Saphira’s character development was stronger, I greatly enjoyed this book and would continue. I appreciated the way Saphira gets bogged down in what she thinks, what she hears, and the voices around her. And when we keep trying to prove who we are, what we stand for, to others we realize we are playing a losing game. I appreciated how The Baby Dragon Cafe looks at the divides between those who have and don’t have dragons. We can’t necessarily change other people’s wrong opinions and it just leaves us never measuring up. The Baby Dragon Cafe is about opening ourselves up to new experiences and realizing we belong.
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