i loved this book. it was like a hallmark movie but instead the love interest is a dinosaur. it was a fun and short read but enjoyable!

It's a bad Hallmark Christmas movie but replace the romance interest with a dinosaur. This is the only difference. That sounds like a negative when I put it that way but boy is this book hilarious.

I am unwell. "Love-swamp".

While the reading experience was 5-stars of full-on snort laughs, the content is.... exactly what you expect. Thankfully, there were no arms being eaten in this one, so extra points for that. Though, the meaty breath does make a return, as well as an introduction to "speed bumps of love".

If you're going to read a questionable holiday novella this year, make it this one. Lola Faust is the real Santa of the season.

Big thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for a free digital advanced reader copy. All opinions are my own and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Holly is in an unhappy relationship with Thad, who only seems to care about making money. He’s not the same sweet man she started dating four years ago in college, The final straw is when he chooses to go on a ski trip for a chance to make a deal rather than come home with her for Christmas. On her plane ride home she starts thinking about Rocky, the Utahraptor she had a crush on in high school. When she gets back home they end up reconnecting and have some very steamy sex.

This book was highly entertaining. I enjoyed the word choices, descriptions of the characters, and the entire sex scene. If you're interested in reading about human/dinosaur sex this is definitely a good choice. I only wish it were longer.

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley, and this is my honest review.

While I would not recommend that my bookstore order this book - I did thoroughly enjoy it. It was a quick and deeply funny read and I will be recommending it to my friends. Can’t wait to read more by this author!

Holly’s boyfriend is named Thad. Thad is a dickhead, because only dickheads are named Thad. Sorry if you named your kid that, you should know better. Thad is a horrible boyfriend and human. Thankfully Holly lives and world where dinosaurs exist and can talk and do other useful things…

Holly goes home to her Mormon Utah family and their devoutly chaste ways clearly don’t rub off on her bc she turns into a total capital H capital O when she sees her old high school friend, Rocky the Utahraptor and propositions him after like 10 minutes of catching up. Slow down girl, you have a boyfriend, even tho he’s a twat…actually nevermind it’s not cheating if you bang another Kingdom (see also Linnaean hierarchy). And then Rocky uses his 3 foot long tongue to give Holly a prehistoric saliva bath and the term “love swamp” is used to describe Holly’s nether regions and I could never love another book more. Holly then gets stuffed like a Xmas stocking by 12 foot tall Rocky’s giant cocky and it’s all rainbows and pterodactyls till Thad shows up via helicopter after tracking his cheating GF on her phone #notastalker. Nasty break up ensues. Rocky doesn’t shred Thad to pieces unfortunately. True love wins…except in the eyes of the Mormon church who refuses to marry Holly to a dinosaur #bigshocker. I’m enraptured by this raptor love story.

Smut- 4.1 stars
Romance- 3.1 stars
Story- 4.6 stars
Love Swamp- 100.8 stars

I love these stories. They’re fun, escapist erotica and sometimes that’s just what you need. I loved the holiday twist on this one. It’s like Hallmark but with dinosaurs & sex haha

Another true delight by Lola. This one is less traumatizing than some of the others (nobody's arm got bitten off after bumping uglies).

It took a while for the Dino content to show up (about halfway) but the backstory was really built up for a novella. You will hate Thad and his million dollar meat necklace (no not a joke).

TW: douche canoes named Thad, "love swamp"