Dirty Lying Dragons by Sabrina Blackburry – Review

Published: August 8, 2023

Publisher: W by Wattpad Books

Series: Enchanted Fates #2

Genre: Fantasy, Romance

Pages: 372 (Kindle)

My Rating: 4 Stars

A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis:
From the author of Dirty Lying Faeries comes a new installment in the Enchanted Fates series, where a young witch finds herself on the run for her life…and in the company of a centuries-old dragon who may or may not be able to help save her.

Dani has never been able to use her magic. She feels like half a witch. Without the protection of a coven, she’s lost, and is being hunted by a pack of very aggressive werewolves intent on claiming her for a powerful vampire’s “collection.”

When the pack finds her one night, Dani races to the top of her apartment building and chalks a circle on the roof, but her spell mistakenly lands her in the hot spring of a centuries old dragon, Ryker. As this odd pair grows closer, the shapeshifter Ryker soon discovers the secret Dani harbors, and it turns his world upside down.

When she’s captured, it’s up to Ryker to come to her aid—and their relationship will rock the supernatural world in ways neither expected, because when the truth about Dani comes out, everything changes.

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I had a great time with Sabrina Blackburry’s first fantasy romance book, Dirty Lying Faeries, and was very excited to see that Dirty Lying Dragons existed. As one might presume from the title, this installment features a dragon. Specifically a dragon shifter who suddenly finds himself with a witch problem.

Danica is a covenless witch with minimal magical skills, so is naturally quite disturbed to find that covenless witches are being hunted down and sold to a very old, very powerful vampire called Apollo. When a group of werewolf bounty hunters literally knock down her door, she jumps through a teleportation circle that should have whisked her away to her dad’s dive bar in Seattle but has instead dropped her quite literally into the lap of a dragon in the middle of Siberia. 

Blessedly, Sabrina Blackburry doesn’t write her characters as complete idiots, so Danica, while freaked out, is fairly reasonable about all of this. And so is Ryker, the dragon shifter who’s suddenly had his quiet corner of frozen Siberia invaded by Dani. Yes, he really wants to know how she ended up here but she has no idea. He’s a bit gruff and she thinks to herself that he’s a bit of an asshole (but so aren’t we all sometimes?). They get along well and the tension builds! Of course, then the vampire issue becomes a priority again so the peace doesn’t last long. This book is really a great blend of romance and action and I like that our characters did get some time to know one another (not tons, but some) before they fell madly in love.

This was another fun installment in the Enchanted Fates series, though I don’t know why this isn’t listed as a proper series on Goodreads! Literally every other website has the series name listed. Did I mention that I love when books set in the same world have character crossovers? Yes, because this is the second book in a series there are numerous characters from Dirty Lying Faeries that show up in the latter half! I think this is a planned trilogy, with the next installment (Dirty Lying Wolves) coming in 2024. This is a very classic paranormal fantasy romance with some refreshingly communicative characters and it was a great time!