This book was just what I needed after reading one that was heavy. I love dinosaurs/ Jurassic park and some romance so mix the two together and viola! Thank you Netgalley for giving me a copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Netgalley and BooksGo Social for my copy of Dino Stud.

I found this book through BookTok and was intrigued enough to see exactly what Dino Stud was about. Unfortunately, this was 30 minutes I won't get back. Not saying it wasn't good, but I did laugh quite a bit at the ridiculous situation the characters found themselves in.

If you are looking for a book that mixes Jurassic Park with "out there" adult romance, that's also a quick read, then this is the book for you.

I read it purely out of curiosity and can say for certain that this is not going to be a regular genre I'll dive into.

Rating: 2/5

Heat Factor: Only one vanilla scene? I was surprised.

Character Chemistry: If we know nothing else, we know Tallulah has the hots for Reid

Plot: PhD student Tallulah invites herself to a hidden, secret dinosaur ranch for a summer job

Overall: It’s more about the mystery of the dino ranch than about the dino stud (and please do take stud to mean its filthiest possible interpretation)

File under: books Erin picked up exclusively because of the cover. I mean, look at it! It’s a wonderful homage to old school category romance covers! Also, the title is Dino Stud! 

Came for the bonkers…didn’t really get it? I’d say it’s camp, but Lola Faust is known for dinorotica, and this just wasn’t that. The writing is probably just fine, like it didn’t have a lot of distracting errors, but I probably could have lived without about 50% of Tallulah’s persistent ruminations about how much she wanted Reid and whether or not he was into her. BUT if you’re really just looking for a short campy read, then take this for what it is and you’ll probably be entertained. 

The premise is that Tallulah is really into dinosaurs and decides to see if she can find this hidden dinosaur hatchery ranch and finagle a summer job that will give her hands-on experience with dinosaurs (we’re already aware that we’re living in an alternate reality with reanimated extinct creatures). Immediately we sense that all is not as it seems, but as we follow Tallulah through her first 48 hours on the ranch (if that), we get very few answers but very many thirsty thoughts about the boss, Reid Canmore (who is thicc and scrumptious). 

There are a number of other characters introduced, but they’re not particularly developed, nor is the ranch especially developed unless its purpose is for Tallulah to fall more in lust with Reid. I think overall this might be a case of expectations not meeting reality for me; I expected something totally bonkers and horny, but instead I got something campy, earnest, and not particularly sexy. So maybe if you go into the read with more reasonable expectations, you’ll have a more positive outcome?

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Terribly hilarious. Definitely a unique concept, I wouldn't say it is a concept that works well but it was a lot of fun to read.

I blame bookstagram for this one. What did I even just read? Look, I'm giving it 3 stars because it wasn't actually badly written, and I'm sure there's an audience for this one somewhere... it just isn't me!

The story follows a young woman who wants to be a palaeontologist and hunts down a kind of Jurassic Park style park where she immediately falls for the hot dude in charge. The dude's assistant keeps cryptically telling her not to start anything with him but she obviously doesn't listen and then it turns out hot dude is hiding something from her.

I don't know y'all, is this where we're at now? The ending didn't even make sense! Booktok is going to go nuts for it though so that's something.

Very well written for being such a silly story. Cheesy dialogue, but it was so much fun it felt like the cheesyness was needed. I love a good silly erotic story that doesn't take itself seriously. This was perfect for that. Not as much smut as I expected, mostly buildup, but that worked out really well. I found myself rooting for things to happen and reading bits aloud to my husband. We both got a lot of laughs out of this story. Can't wait to read the rest.

4 stars.

I for sure thought that this book was going to go in a completely different direction when I first found it and started reading it.. I do not know if I should be relieved that it did not or disappointed. Anyways, it was a short book, which I expected a lot more smutty scenes it it especially with the title page. I thought it was a little boring at times because I had wanted so much more. I do want to find more by her to see what other things she creates.

I know that there are a lot of bookgenres but i had never heard of Dinosaur erotica before. I thought this novella would be perfect to see what it was all about. Overall it is a fun quick read, although it was less spicy and weird then i thought it would be. But it also confirmed that this is not really my kind of genre.

I got this arc in exchange for an honest review.

Dino Stud was much lighter than I was expecting. It was an interesting world and I believed the connection between the FMC and the LI.

Very minimal sexual content, fully developed characters and character arcs, leading to a nice, short, and sweet novella.

You get exactly what you signed up for with this book. It is 100 pages of ridiculous fun about a woman who has always loved dinosaurs finding a ranch dedicated to the research of dinosaurs led by a leading researcher who is believed to be dead. In this reality, dinosaurs were brought back to life and genetically mutated. The writing is nothing spectacular but it wasn't distracting and it mostly didn't pull me out of the story so I had a fairly pleasant reading experience. If you want dinosaur smut then you found it and if you don't then this book will not be for you.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for this arc. I don't even know where to begin. This book started off sounding interesting and by the end it was 'why did I read this?' It was extremely weird and I wish that I did not read it. Ugh

Hello, your favorite self-proclaimed party-pooping fact-checking fake scientist here with her latest science-infused review of yet another slightly controversial book here.
I start reading the book, and I am suddenly very, very confused.
So the book begins with a… I don’t know what that is. The blunderest of all the blunders. There is a T. Rex and some female human named Tallulah. But. But. But. After the dinos died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth, right? And there even is… a metal wall. A metal wall! When did people even learn how to make stuff from metal?
Ok, that was a failure. My own failure. Because I had started making up assumptions before I even knew what was going on there. I just read the first few pages and, boom, here I go, all rolling my eyes with a never before seen might super hard. Turns out, it was an absolute waste of all this eye-rolling power. Turns out, there is a perfectly reasonable and absolutely realistic, totally believable explanation for all this.
There is a dino park. Some weirdos have brought back dinos and there are wild dino parks. And there are people who study dinos and who work there, and this lady is one of those people. And all that stuff is happening nowadays. Urgh. And there I go, all my paleontology timeline knowledge totally wasted.


On a side note, what I really loved about the book: there is an assistant. A non-binary person, they/them.

From my notes:
I’m at 23%: yeah, ok, this is disappointing, this is a hetero lust smut wannabe romance, no dino sex here.

The Dino Stud guy is a very heterosexual male, and the main character Tallulah is a very heterosexual female, and those two are having this – whatever it is they are having there. Slow burn smutmance. Although the Dino Guy has a tiny secret that kind of sort of saves the day to add to the dino theme, but nope, that’s not enough. This was too human and too hetero. That was still a hetero romance and it was still between people. Dinos are just some minor background entertainment.

p.s.
Ok, to make things a tiny bit awkward, the T. Rex uses his HANDS to pick up a huge metal container. Now, who gave that T.Rex those fully functional hand extensions? Because as far as I know, those hands were a joke.

So that was a thing.

Tallulah is a paleontologist who decides to get a summer job at what’s called The Ranch, despite no one from the neighboring town seeing any of the employees for years. From the moment she sees Reid she’s smitten, but hear me out, the romance and smut was meh and this should not be labeled as erotica. For most of the book I was bored (except the last chapter when everything went crazy), but I did enjoy most of the dinosaur stuff, which was sadly pushed to the side for the mediocre romance plotline.

2⭐ out of 5 - would’ve preferred more dinos

Review in progress and to come.

I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review

I’m dying. This is the corniest, most entertaining thing I’ve read in such a long time.

Downsides: campy. Insta-love. Kinda weird vibe

Upsides: dinosaurs. The most outlandish scenario you can imagine. Kinda weird vibe

I'll say it, its my bad. I expected more from this book than I should've.

It wasn't bad per se, it was just a very quick book without any development. LIKE AT ALL.

Girls like dinosaurs, wants to work at the ranch, finds the ranch, meets owner of the ranch, falls in love after (maybe two days), they fuck, dinosaurs escape their cage, owner of the ranch is actually human/dinosaur, he saves her, they end up together, the end.

that was it. just that. no more no less. only one smut scene... it's disappointed cause COME ON ITS CALLE DINO STUD. I WANT RIPPED DINO STUD TO DO IT MORE THAN ONCE PLEASE!

so that's it. that is my review. thank you net galley for the arc of this book. All thoughts and feelings are my own.

I enjoy the odd bonkers romance so I was very game for this, but honestly it was a bit disappointing and a lot lower steam than I expected. Did like the consent though!

I will probably try something else by Faust, as the writing was decent- just not what I expected.

As a young girl, I went through a short dinosaur phase, as most of us did… our MC Tallulah never grew out of it.
She's a paleontology student who discovers a dinosaur ranch (kinda Jurassic Park-y but much more secretive) and quickly falls for the handsome owner, Reid.

This book was fun! It's quick and well written, that cover is gorgeous, and I got a huge kick out of the little twist at the end 🤭 While this book is ridiculous (I mean that kindly), I can absolutely see myself reading more of her books.

Really, my only complaint would be the lack of spice! I was expecting an erotica novella, peppered with steam and there really wasn't much. But that doesn't take away from the fun atmosphere!

Thanks NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for this incredibly unique experience, in exchange for an honest review!

First of all, this book was better than expected and I had a lot of fun while reading it!

I requested this book because of the cover (I really love that!) and because it's about dinosaurs. It was really short and a lot of the story was very rushed. I still couldn't but it down because I wanted to know what the big plot will be and I really didn't expected it! (I thought he was doing it with the dinosaurs but that wasn't the case)

It's also not as spicy as I thought it would be. There was only one short scene but what I liked about that was, that he asked for consent.

I also liked the fact that it had a non-binary character in it.

It wasn't the best book I've ever read but I had fun with it and maybe I will pick up more books by Lola Faust because this one was a really fast and fun read!

Thank you to NetGalley for this EARC!

I don't know why I keep reading these books. Like her other books, I read this as the humorous, tongue-in-cheek book I'm hoping it's supposed to be, and it was entertaining and ridiculous and hilarious in many ways. Unfortunately, this book was barely readable due to the serious formatting and grammatical errors.