This is one of the #SPFBO books I had on my list... and it was... weird? I didn't finish this one as I could tell right away this probably wasn't going to be for me. It's a fantasy romance, seemingly between a young girl called Olivia, and a dragon called Kaden. I read to 15% and I just couldn't keep going because it was super cringe-y and I was feeling a little bit grossed out by the way that the dragon kept on objectifying this young girl who wandered into 'his' cave...

The story starts with Olivia on the run from a pack of wolves as she's trying to escape a marriage to a man she doesn't love. She's a naive young girl who has come into a dark forest very ill prepared, and it just seems to be pure blind luck that she manages to survive this long and that eventually she stumbled into the dragon's cave.

The writing in this story is extremely simple, the characters feel both bland and 2-d as they really have no real backstory or personality. I felt that this would easily be a book a child could read, but this clashed a lot with the tone of language used because it very quickly became very sexual in nature.. For me, the simple writing and flat characters just didn't work well enough to keep me reading.

I have to say, the dragon was ikky. I actually like a good romance every now and then, and yet, this one wasn't good in my eyes, it was just creepy. The fact that this old lonely dragon instantly decides he's into Olivia, he keeps 'caressing her with his eyes' and imagining squeezing her buttocks'... Yeah, that's creepy when it's on first sight... I knew this just wasn't for me. Probably would have given this just a 1* in the end sadly...