Marcus is used to women doing exactly what he wants, until he meets Addison. She’s beautiful, feisty, and precisely what he needs. He will have her.Marcus has been alive for centuries and has never been in love. Instead, he has always surrounded himself with a harem of beautiful women who cater to his every need in exchange for the lavish lifestyle he provides for them. When he gets bored, he … gets bored, he sends them on their way. He has never once reconsidered his dedication to bachelorhood. Then he meets Addison…
Addison is young, beautiful, and content with the new arrangement proposed by Marcus. The other women don’t bother her because she refuses to let her feelings get in the way. She’s just having a little fun and doesn’t expect her relationship with Marcus to be long-term. She knows the situation is not ideal, but for some reason, she can’t resist him. Soon she realizes that although he gives her every material possession she wants, he can’t give her the one thing she wants most: love.
Addison decides she has too much respect for herself and leaves Marcus.
No one has ever left Marcus on her own accord. With Addison gone, he realizes she was the one he wanted all along. The game is on…
If you love dragon shifter romances, bad boys, secret baby romances, and alpha shifters who know how to take charge, then you will love Dragon’s Choice!
Content Warning: Explicit love scenes and lots of sexy shifters. Intended for 18+ audiences. This book is a 40k-word dragon shifter romance. Bonus books are included in the eBook version to make you tingle from head to toe.
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First let me state, I received an Advance Reader Copy, (ARC), but this in no way influences my review. I always leave an honest review.
OMG!!! I love this story. I so can’t wait to read the next story in this group. If you don’t know, this is book 2. Fortunately they can all be read as a standalone. Marcus was such a cold-hearted jerk, (no swearing). He has a harem of women to have sex with, and if they don’t like it, he replaces them. Then he meets Addison, & everything becomes complicated. I love how Addison is confident & sure of herself. At least until Melissa, starts her manipulating. I recommend this read. 5 Thumbs up
I loved this story! This series just gets better and better!
I was gifted an ARC in return of an honest review.
Okay, just to let you know I’m chief editor of Gypsy Moth Productions, so I am a little more critical than most. If you and I had a sit-down, I know we could have punched this story up to be a real novel and a really exciting piece. (Shame we didn’t because you have talent and some excellent ideas in that head of yours. The rest is all mechanical which is my business to help you out as well as teach you a few things to make you an even better writer. Most editors don’t want to take that time because they don’t care.) So here’s my review. Please take this for what it’s worth. You haven’t been around the block like I have, and part of my job as an editor is to be a lifelong student of humanity. My professional job as a physician has taken me places most doctors only dream about or shudder not to go.
Wished a little more time was spent on this novella. Felt liked it was written in a rush to get to other projects.
This is Book 2 of the Misty Woods Dragons Series. No, you don’t have to read Book 1, but there are details there that will help illuminate a few points in Dragon’s Choice. (Besides, I really liked Dragon’s Baby!) It’s probably the first romance story I’ve read in YEARS where the male protagonist insisted on an open relationship and the female protagonist accepted this condition… for at least a year. I’m never fond of open relationships/marriages because women, in general, are jealous creatures. (I totally confess to be the same way!) We are obsessed to guarantee for ourselves protection and financial security, especially if children are involved. It’s the way we’re hard-wired. But I’m also an Alaskan, and whatever happens between two consenting adults on private property, that’s their business and let no one interfere with that. But like I said, that’s THEIR agreement, not mine. I actually sat down and wondered why this kind of agreement would be a requirement for Marcus, then it dawned on me. It’s the only way for an immortal to deal with the inconvenient legalities marriage and monogamous relationships present. Which is a shame… for him. I guess immortality has its disadvantages.
Length: Long novella but not quite to qualify for novel-length (according to me). But I didn’t feel there was a loss in value.
Character development: Considering external stressors, I’m impressed how Juniper Hart presented a very complicated nest of employees and how they interacted with their employer. Nothing less than a harem that congregates at the office, if you ask me. Oh, yeah, I can see why Marcus, our male protagonist, prefers it that way, but after being an immortal for how many centuries, has he yet to figure out that a pissed-off woman is a formidable enemy? What is his excuse? He doesn’t want to deal with the drama which means that that his mistresses who have no job responsibilities or job description whatsoever fight it out amongst themselves. Yeah. TOTALLY ineffective male. But he certainly can roar when he’s not feeling so spiffy. As for Addison, I really wonder how she put up with one year being his booty call recipient. Yes, she finally does come to her senses and probably did the smartest thing she’d ever done in the previous twelve months. (You read the book to find out.) Obviously, she had been in denial or was so desperate for a relationship that she would put up with his multiple-mistresses ways. I think of all the characters in this tale, I liked Tatiana the CFO the best. She had my attention far more than the others. Melissa and her little group were very templated individuals (see “villainess” in the character template writer’s guide).
Emotional factor: Oh, there’s plenty of emotion being bantered (or battered) around… but as much as I want to really like Addison and Marcus, I didn’t feel that “hook” as I did in Dragon’s Baby. The back of my mind kept reminding me that Addison was being totally stupid by lowering her standards, Marcus was being an arrogant fool, refusing to take responsibility for his actions, and the rest of the harem could be the death of Addison (literally). Sorry, but even with the HEA, I still didn’t feel much hearts and flowers. This story needed a decent epilogue.
Speed of action: Pretty decent progression of events.
Predictability: Oh, I figured out the harem disaster within the first few chapters. I just didn’t know to what lengths they would go.
Credibility issues: I am very disappointed that there wasn’t more exposition here. I used to hang out in downtown Toronto, and I know Yonge Street VERY WELL. *sigh* It’s like Hart chose a city and left it bare bones. Has she ever been to Yonge Street?? How about Queens Street? The Freedom Bakery? Chinatown? How about the World’s Biggest Bookstore? (It REALLY is!)
Grammar and technical errors: Nothing that really annoyed me. So that’s a plus.
I think this novella was published way too quickly on the heels of Dragon’s Baby. Come on, Juniper! It’s really obvious this novella doesn’t have the same draw as Dragon’s Baby. It could had been novel-size with a lot more detail, subplots, and scheme-upon-scheme-within scheme. Slow down, girl! Write quality, not quantity!
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving an honest, no-punches-pulled review.