All I Want for Christmas Is Utahraptor

by Lola Faust

This big-city hottie is home for the holidays... but will she rekindle romance with her high-school dino flame?

In the snow-dusted streets of her hometown, Holly Grant, a dazzling figure from the glittering world of high society, finds herself at a crossroads. Trapped in a loveless relationship with the wealthy yet unfeeling Thad, her heart longs for an escape. As Christmas bells chime and families gather, Holly's perfectly manicured life is on the verge of unraveling in the most unexpected way.

Enter Rocky, a breathtakingly majestic Utahraptor, who once set Holly's world ablaze with forbidden passion. Their paths cross again, reawakening a whirlwind romance that defies not only the laws of nature but also the conservative norms of Holly's Mormon community. As the festive lights twinkle, Holly is torn between the life she's always known and the wild, untamed love she never forgot.

Amidst the scandalous whispers and shocked stares, their reunion ignites a fiery debate between desire and decorum. Will Holly choose the safety of her gilded cage, or will she surrender to the primal call of a love that once set her soul on fire? This holiday season, witness a love story that is as passionate as it is controversial, as Holly grapples with the deepest desires of her heart.

Genres: Romance, Erotica, Novella, Monster Romance, Fiction, Christmas, Adult

170 pages, Paperback

First published December 7, 2023

About the author

From an early age Lola Faust's fantasies and reveries tilted towards the unusual and the eccentric. Though she entertained curious private journals, it wasn't until she entered the Paleontology program at the University of British Columbia that her romantic notions concerning dinosaurs took full flight.

While working towards her doctorate, Ms Faust began writing her signature saurian prose. Today she is employed by day at a leading university in her field, but maintains her anonymous and risque personality online.

She can be reached at lolafaust1984@gmail.com.

She also has an Amazon author page.

Reviews

[Katie (spellboundbooks_) · Rating 1 out of 5]

1 star | 1 spice

I honestly don't even know where to begin with this one... there were so many problems and the fact she was f*cking a dinosaur wasn't even one of them...

First off the writing in this one is just not good... I can appreciate a short, smutty monster romance better than most but the plot of this one was just stupid as hell. Plus it's marketed as "dinosaur erotica" and there's like ONE sex scene and words like "love-swamp" and "love-button" were used - JUST SAY VAGINA OR CLIT. Love-swamp?? That's the last thing I want to hear that referred to as...

This book turned oddly religious at one point and really there was nothing Christmasy about it. Just the fact that this girl comes home for Christmas and bangs a dinosaur (a VIRGIN dinosaur). The backstory on how the dinosaurs were living amongst humans, driving and talking were not even glossed over. It just said their DNA changed or something.

The last one I read by Faust, the man was a dinosaur SHIFTER, so she banged him in man form, but this one was STRAIGHT UP dino. Supposedly this thing was 3 stories tall, so please tell me how that monster-sized d*ck managed to fit, girl was just like ohhh I'll stretch. PLEASE she couldn't even fit two hands around it- THERE'S NO WAY. Plus, do dinosaurs even have d*cks????

Edit: after a google search from hell, apparently they did in fact have a d*ck of some sort... now my brain is burning from the images of dinosaurs getting it on that popped up and whoever is monitoring my search history is probably horrified....

I get Thad and his dad were supposed to come off like complete assholes and fine but I honestly couldn't tell if it was satire or this author purposefully made them this way. Then they flew in on some rich helicopter and found her half naked in a dino cave... so honestly yeah I can see how her boyfriend would be disgusted lol he was an ass - but she still cheated on him with a giant scaley dino...

Overall, this book was just bad... bad writing, bad characters and bad plot. PLUS NO EROTICA, I don't read this shit for the PLOT, at least give me something to entertain me. If the author ever decides to write something with a decent plot and more smut, maybe I will read it.

I'll leave you with a few quotes I highlighted....

"The little feathers on his cheeks tickled her as he rolled his lizard-lips against hers..." LIZARD LIPS NO THANKS.

"... a glorious fount of meat-breath that bathed her face in a delicate mist of saliva." MEAT BREATH?? She also describes him as tasting like a rare steak at one point... so does she wanna f*ck him or eat him??

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

With the end of the year looming and a great stack of books on my Kindle and Kobo beckoning to finally be read, I was on the train called book slump. Until I saw that Lola Faust had an offering just in time for the holidays.


It should be a truth universally acknowledged that dinosaur erotica will rejuvenate your drive to tackle that TBR.

Main protagonist Holly is in a terrible relationship. In fact, her boyfriend and his family are all fairly toxic. Luckily, Holly makes the decision to go home for Christmas where she reconnects with her high school boyfriend, Rocky, the stunningly charismatic Utahraptor. The sparks fly and I was shipping this relationship with as much passion as I once did for Dylan and Brenda and Joey and Pacey.

If you like Christmas but are tired of the same old Hallmark movies, try a Christmas romance with a dinosaur.


#AllIWantForChristmasisUtahraptor #NetGalley.

Publication Date 07/12/23
Review Date 12/12/23

[Stitching Ghost · Rating 3 out of 5]

The content warnings were chef's kiss and it was a really funny (goofy) story.

That being said, a lot of it felt rushed and some of the characters were just the goofiest of caricatures which was eyeroll inducing. We got a fair bit about Holly's world and about some of the charming (and not so charming) characters that live in it but fairly little relationship building between her and Rocky but I guess if you like your hunky dinos rather blank slate that could be a plus.

I might be the wrong person to state that but that was the most unsexy smut I've read and I've read some seriously questionable ones including Bagged by the Groceries... But my did I ugly cackle while reading about his meaty breath and taste.

The Christmas aspect of the story isn't that big of a deal and honestly without the title I wouldn't really have thought of this as being particularly Christmas-y. The religious aspect of it didn't bother me but, yeah, it's definitely there and sort of clumsy at the end.

My thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

[Krista · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Utahraptor stood tall — twelve feet tall — before her, clothed only in his feathers and a jaunty Santa hat. His massive hocks rested half-on the lawn, crushing the gentle brush of snow that had fallen earlier that morning, and in one of his little hands he carried a large tin of Quality Street chocolates.

Okay, I can explain…I’ve never read anything like this before, and while my first instinct is to say that this follows the plot of a Hallmark Christmas movie — but with a hunky dinosaur love interest — I would have to then admit that I’ve never seen a Hallmark Christmas movie. But I’ve been really busy lately, and I was looking for something short and mindless, and honestly, All I Want for Christmas is Utahraptor is not the worst book I’ve ever read, by a long shot. Author Lola Faust (a pseudonym, apparently) doesn’t take the subject matter seriously, this is full on camp — with just the right amount of “follow your heart” and “love is love”, and aren’t those the themes explored in historical pulp fiction? Didn’t they used to write about sexy vampires as code for the queer love they weren't allowed to write about? I might not have gone into this thinking that I was the true target audience, but I was totally entertained…and maybe a tiny bit moved. (Note: I read an ARC through NetGalley and passages quoted may not be in their final forms.)

In her senior year they’d met Rob, a PhD student from Australia, who was studying the implications of DNA deterioration on the culture of dinosaur populations in Tasmania. Holly had been captivated by his interest in dinos; he was the first person she’d met in the wider world who took dino culture seriously, seeing it as a genuine foundational aspect of dino society rather than a veneer imposed on them by human society, seeing dinos as fully conscious, fully sentient beings who deserved equality and consideration.

Holly Grant lives with her ultrarich boyfriend in Chicago, selling thrifted antiques in an online shop. They’ve been together for four years with no engagement (let alone marriage) on the horizon, and as Thad spends ever more time as a vulture venture capitalist, looking for the next big deal, and the next, Holly’s forgetting what she ever saw in him. When Thad announces that he’s going on a work/ski trip with some buddies over Christmas, Holly decides she’ll go back to her hometown in Utah to see her Dad…daydreaming of her happy days there; especially her high school days when the school board piloted an integration program with the locally reanimated dinosaur population. In those days, Holly had been best friends with a Utahraptor named Rocky, but despite having always been attracted to him, the timing was never right to talk about her feelings. Maybe the timing will finally be right when Rocky shows up at her Dad’s house on Christmas.

The Utahraptor brought his muzzle to Holly’s mouth and nuzzled. The little feathers on his cheeks tickled her as he rolled his lizard-lips against hers, careful not to slice her open with his sharp predator teeth. It was the strangest and most alluring kiss Holly had ever received.

“Is this okay?” Rocky whispered to her, a glorious fount of meat-breath that bathed her face in a delicate mist of saliva.

“Yes,” whispered Holly. “Yes, it’s wonderful.”

An explicit scene does follow, but it’s so campy and implausible that I don’t think it’s meant to be taken seriously (he begins by exploring her “love-swamp, moist and humid as the Cretaceous jungle the Utahraptor’s ancestors would have stalked through in their search for food,” and that made me guffaw.) And I see other readers are pleased that Rocky asks for consent at every stage, but some state that there ought to be a trigger warning for Holly cheating on Thad, even though he was really a jerk and Holly had already decided that the relationship was over. I offer these points to underline that I am not the usual reader of Romance or Erotica, so I’m not critical of the tropes, just reporting my experience.

I will also note that some reviewers didn’t like where the story went “religious”, but this is Utah, and while Holly’s Dad was a non-practising Mormon (having lost his faith when his wife died of cancer years before), I appreciated his acceptance of the daughter-dino relationship:

“The Church is a human institution. We built it to honour God — but humans built it, and humans are fallible. The bond between a parent and child, though…that is God’s own work. And loving you, whatever choices you make, is loving God.”

I’m no expert on the genre, but I didn’t hate this.

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Is it not too much to ask to keep religion out of my Dino smut?

[Bobbi bobbijoreads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Them: "Cancel taboo authors! Ban taboo books!"
Me: "Hold my beer while I read Lola Faust's newest release."

🦖 BOOK REVIEW 🦖

All I Want for Christmas is Utahraptor
By Lola Faust
Pub: Dec. 7th, 2023
Pages: 94
My Review: 4⭐1🌶️

🦖 Synopsis:

In the snow-dusted streets of her hometown, Holly Grant, a dazzling figure from the glittering world of high society, finds herself at a crossroads. Trapped in a loveless relationship with the wealthy yet unfeeling Thad, her heart longs for an escape. As Christmas bells chime and families gather, Holly's perfectly manicured life is on the verge of unraveling in the most unexpected way.

Enter Rocky, a breathtakingly majestic Utahraptor, who once set Holly's world ablaze with forbidden passion. Their paths cross again, reawakening a whirlwind romance.

🦖 My Review:

If you are ever in a reading slump, bored, or slightly depressed my advice is to read something like this.. lighthearted and FUN. I find dino erotica weirdly entertaining and humorous.

FMC Holly is in a crappy relationship with Thad (perfect name for him tbh). Thad only cares about is money and success, treating "Hottie Holly" like another object to show off. After being ditched by him, again, Holly decides the relationship isn't working and goes home to Utah, alone, for Christmas with her family.

While at home, Holly meets up with Rocky, a friend from high school who happens to be a Utahraptor. They talk and discover the chemistry they had as teenagers is still there. [Compared to previous works by Faust, the amount of spice in this book is very tame with only one scene between Holly and Rocky.] Dino/Human relationships are taboo, but with the surprising blessing of her family Holly gets a HEA that jerk Thad could never give her.

😕I liked Rocky but didn't feel like I got to see much of his personality shine through in the brief amount of time he's in the story.

😁I did purchase the paperback and was pleasantly surprised parts of Faust's other books were also included after this novella.

Quoteable: "He licked her as if she were the only source of dietary salt within a hundred kilometers."

*I also received a complimentary copy through Netgalley and BooksGoSocial. I am leaving an honest review voluntarily.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are certain books that change you. Books that make it so that you can never see the world the same way again. Books that, dare I say it, define an entire generation and will be read, remembered, and beloved for centuries to come. *Price & Prejudice. A Tale of Two Cities. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Catch-22. The Lord of the Rings*. And Lola Faust, author of *All I Want for Christmas is Utahraptor*, may well have read some of them.

Holly isn’t satisfied. Her big-city finance boyfriend Thad is, in theory, everything a girl could want. He’s rich, handsome, and happy to support “Hottie Holly” in her Etsy business selling upcycled antiques. But he’s also always focused on closing his next major deal, keeping his father’s venture capital empire growing. The love and affection he once showered her with is an ever-more-distant memory.

This comes to a head when Holly goes home to Utah for Christmas, and reconnects with her old high school boyfriend, the 12-foot tall Utahraptor Rocky. And she learns that maybe it’s OK for her to want more. And maybe she even deserves - dare I say it - true love?

Fun and smutty. 9.5/10, almost no notes (Rocky should have been a single dad). Looking forward to the Hallmark TV adaptation starring Lacey Chabert.

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[Libbie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did I read a Christmas themed dinosaur smut in April?

Yes, I did. Don't judge me 😂

Was it any good?

Nope

[Steve Stred · Rating 3 out of 5]

*Huge thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for having this set to ‘Read Now’ for me!*

Recently, while scrolling through Netgalley, looking to see if anything had been added that I’d hope to be approved for, a cover caught my attention in the Sci-fi and Fantasy category. It was the one for this book, featuring an attractive looking woman gently caressing the chin of a dinosaur. I was intrigued. She was wearing a skimpy little red number and the dinosaur looked amazing.

Now, two caveats here. The first is that I generally dislike Christmas fiction – no matter the genre. The second, is that I typically steer FAR away from the romance world. Nothing wrong with it, but I want my love story to involve survival, creatures, and a never ending blackness. All things not typically within the romance genre.

BUT – I thought, you know what? Maybe this will be a fun read. Maybe this will be the palette cleanser between two horror reads and I’ll have a good time.

And you know what?

I did.

What I liked: The story follows Holly, now living in Chicago, dating douchebag Thad, and wondering just where the happiness in her life went. She should have it all. Thad’s super rich, his family is even richer and she’s living a life many would dream of. But she suspects Thad’s stringing her along. That the reasons she isn’t invited to some functions and trips is because there’s someone else and with no proposal appearing to be imminent, she wonders what would happen if she was to end it.

As Christmas approaches, Thad leaves to go on a boys skiing trip, leaving Holly alone for the holidays, so she heads back to see her parents in Utah.

It’s here where Faust sprinkles the story with some background. As humans discovered dinosaurs still alive, they also found they were smart and some could communicate. Those who met the criteria where given the chance to join into human society – go to school, get jobs, develop a culture. Oddly, I never expected a topical and socioeconomic metaphor to play out in a story about a woman who loves a dinosaur, but there we were and even though Faust doesn’t linger on it, it sets the stage for things further down the line.

So, it’s here that Holly remembers the days where she fell in love with Rocky, the Utahraptor. He attended her school and they became fast friends, but neither was willing to take it to the next level. Not until they reconnect and Holly realizes that everything she’s been wanting and missing, she can have, with Rocky.

This novella was an easy one-sitting read and it felt completely like I was watching a Hallmark Christmas movie, just with a dinosaur. The ending is exactly what you’d expect to happen and as much as it pains me to type this out, was a very sweet ending.

What I didn’t like: Well, honestly, I had a lot of fun with this one, but saying that, everything was surface level for the depth of emotions and descriptions. I think if this had been lengthened, we could’ve had a deeper experience where we see how Holly’s father turns his views around to accept Rocky, or how Thad’s behavior really effected Holly and she took some time to process it. As a base story, though, this was fun.

I will mention though – and mild spoiler here – if you don’t want to read about a woman and a Utahraptor getting it on, you’ll probably want to skip that part.

Why you should buy this: If you’re looking for a quick, adorable story of a woman realizing she’s better off without her asshole boyfriend and wants to return to her true love, no matter what society says, look no further.

Faust makes you immediately root for Holly and when her and Rocky reconnect, sparks fly from the page. Overall, a really sweet, Holiday story, one that would be perfect to read after the kids have gone to bed and Santa’s delivered all the presents.

[ladybreww · Rating 4 out of 5]

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"

[pdxrach · Rating 5 out of 5]

Am I really giving dinosaur erotica 5 stars? Absolutely I am!

Look, we should know what we are getting into when selecting a title like All I Want for Christmas is Utahraptor and we shouldn’t expect Tudor Renaissance poetry but Lola Faust delivered it all the same.

What can I say? I’m here for it. I don’t even mind the usage of the term love-swamp. In this instance life… and love… finds a way.


Thank you to BooksGoSocial for providing the ARC for review

[Sam · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

My Selling Pitch:
Do you want to read bad dino smut for the lols? It’s barely smut and barely a holiday romance, but it does have a religious agenda.

Pre-reading:
It’s the most wonderful time of the year🎶 As if I wasn’t going to pick this up?

Thick of it:
Cabochon

One, I was thinking of the author Koontz. Two, apparently, there’s an artist who makes giant balloon animal sculptures. And they say smut isn’t educational.

I’m too much of a Capricorn. I’m like ooo money.

She’s an antiquer, he’s a finance bro. She’s a yoga teacher dog mom, he-studies the implications of DNA deterioration on the culture of dinosaur populations in Tasmania. I-

These dumb books make me laugh.

Biggest Thad omg.

Lol, this would be Mormon nonsense.

Nothing says glory to god like a microwave.

What curfew? She’s a grown-ass adult.

Ew, lol

Love swamp OMG

I mean, Holly is the no good dirty cheater here.

I mean, Thad’s just spitting facts.

What is with the fucking religious agenda?

Post-reading:
Yeah, I mean you’re reading this for the lols. The plot’s a mess. The characters are cardboard. There’s not really smut in this which is surprising considering it’s supposed to be erotica. It has a weird religious agenda. Not super Christmasy or porny. But like, iconic garbage?

Who should read this:
You know exactly who you are
Cringe spectators

Do I want to reread this:
No

Similar books:
* Seduced by the Pumpkin Spice Latte by Evelyn Cloves-look she fucks a coffee cup, okay. ‘Tis the season.
* Unhinged by Vera Valentine-homegirl fucks a door, and this erotica manages to scrape together a plot with some mythos
* Wet Hot Allosaurus Summer by Lola Faust-dinosaur smut for the lols
* Kissing the Coronavirus by M. J. Edwards-unhinged smut for the lols

[Queen B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes, I know, this is a conscious choice I made.

Our Utahraptor is sentient here (unlike the Triceratops book I read earlier this year) and went to high school with human, Holly. Her long term relationship is not going well, and she runs back into 12 FOOT TALL Rocky when she visits her hometown. And immediately jumps into bed with him.

Which…was interesting; the mechanics of it, the awkwardly and unsexy descriptions (meat breath, anyone??), the sprinkling of Mormonism. All I Want for Christmas is Utahraptor was a whirlwind of…things. I did love how Rocky was all about consent. Not so much how Holly was still in a relationship while doing the dirty with Rocky. Like I get it girl, you’re planning to break up—but you haven’t so take a look at yourself mmkay.

All in all, Rocky was a cinnamon roll despite being a giant, carnivorous predator but I can’t get past his meat breath kisses.

Thank you to BooksGoSocial for the review copy.

[d_uhreads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pratical...No.

Logistics...Absolutely Not.

Spice...Unhinged.

Humor...Impeccable.

The way I cackled like a sea witch while reading this...Priceless.

[rosie♡]

i may finally start therapy after finishing this

[Cate Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

ARC REVIEW: The last thing I expected when I received this holiday story was a steamy story of a Mormon woman and the dinosaur she’s always loved. It was over before I was ready for it to end and left me stunned and impressed at the story. The author is amazing with her words, and I often found myself having to record some of the phrases she used to ping them at my friends to try to get them to read it. It was laugh out loud funny and an entertaining read for a brief holiday love story.

[Ilze Van der Merwe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Truly a masterpiece

[kennedy ; cy · Rating 3 out of 5]

i read this for fun and it was my first time reading something like this but it was interesting and fun. i loved the consent 10/10. also i was thinking this read like a hallmark movie so when thad the asshole said:

“‘What, is this some twisted Hallmark-movie shit? Home for the holidays, and the heroine falls in love with a fucking dinosaur?’”

i mean he is right but he’s still an asshole. fuck you thad.

finally, i will leave off with this quote that made me laugh:

“He traced his tongue from her upper thighs into her love-swamp, moist and humid as the Cretaceous jungle the Utahraptor’s ancestors would have stalked through in their search for food.”

[April Wheeler · Rating 3 out of 5]

ARC copy kindly provided through NetGalley but all thoughts are my own.

Love-swamp got me. his meaty protein breath got me. this kitsch is on par but the whole beginning with Thad wasn't it. Rocky should have ate him and I'm gonna die on that hill.

loved the religious bit in the epilogue! this was very feel good dino stuff. not the spiciest even with the overflowing fluids lol. Don Juan Velociraptor still has my heart.

[Steph (Teacups & Tropes) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!

This was great. I always have a fantastic time when I'm reading anything written by Lola Faust. This was short and hilarious. I definitely wanted to punch the Thad's in the face, but Rocky the Utahraptor dealt with them pretty well.

And the little marriage at the end... STOP IT. So cute.

[Smuttybookreviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Mia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’ve been seeing this book and others like it on bookstagram and had to see what all the hype was about. Unfortunately, this was just not my kink. This under one hour novella read was one of those novellas that just needed a bit more to round out the story. Although the author created a cute story of kindness and acceptance the being able to have a sexual and intimate relationship with a dinosaur just didn’t do it for me. The author describing the female anatomy as “her love-swamp, moist and humid as the Cretaceous jungle the Utahraptor’s ancestors would have stalked through in their search for food.” really didn’t set the romantic mood. For those of you out there that are into dino erotica this is the book for you! The author did a detailed job creating the romance between the two main characters and even had a nice epilogue to pull everything together.

[Faith · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

Thank you Netgalley, Lola Faust, and the publisher for this book in exchange for my honest review

This is a short and lighthearted romance between Holly, a young hottie who is trapped in a loveless relationship with her cold-hearted, millionaire, business man boyfriend, and Rocky, a 12 foot tall virgin dinosaur (a Utahraptor apparently) who's been in love with her since childhood.

Things that I liked about this book: It doesn't take itself seriously at all and it definitely made me laugh out loud several times at the sheer ridiculousness. Also, Lola Faust is a wordsmith when it comes to euphemisms for human anatomy.

Here is one example:

"He traced his tongue from her upper thighs into her love-swamp, moist and humid as the Cretaceous jungle the Utahraptor's ancestors would have stalked through in their search for food. He licked her as if she were the only source of dietary salt within a hundred kilometers."

I mean, this book is worth it just for that honestly.

What I didn't like: Although it was short, it dragged at times. There was zero build up to the (one) sex scene (yes, there is only one) and yet, there was like 10 pages of Holly having dinner with her (ex?)bf's family. Also, the "trigger warnings" which are not actual trigger warnings (things like "Christmas", and "jewelry" are listed) felt disrespectful-if not offensive.

[leena.reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to the author and Netgalley for allowing me access to this book as an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

« He traced his tongue from her upper thighs into her love-swamp, moist and humid as the Cretaceous jungle the Utahraptor’s ancestors would have stalked through in their search for food. »

Rating: 2.5 ⭐️
Genre: Paranormal Monster Erotica
Format: ARC Ebook
Pages: 170
Spice: 1 🌶️
POV: Third POV
S/S: standalone
Check trigger warnings for any book

Well, I had to read one dino-porn book in my reading career.

Not my thing but funny to read ironically.

Leena - Leena.reader review - @leena.reader on tiktok and instagram

[autumn · Rating 1 out of 5]

* arc reader * A really quick read that I picked up mostly out of curiosity and also because my friends insisted I had to - for their enjoyment. It was a wild ride and I really did not know what to expect from a book where the main love interest is a dinosaur but it was differently different than anything I've read before. This book was not written for me, but it could be fun for someone who is more into this type of thing looking for a quick read!! The plot of the story was a little all over the plots in general (Holly's feelings towards her boyfriend are not well defined and seem to change at the drop of a hat?) once I got over the shock of it all, but I suppose the story wasn't written to be a literature masterpiece but rather a quick tale of forbidden reptilian romance.

[emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was somehow everything I expected it to be, better, and worse all at the same time. I mean it’s dinosaur smut, what else could you imagine, but it’s also about rejecting toxic people in your life and choosing to be you no matter how weird your sex life is despite your toxic ex boyfriend and your Mormon parents. Go girl! Get you some!

The writing was okay, lacking but it did the job. The storytelling was fluid, and kept moving easily. Despite it all, I did love the main character in this story better than in WHAS. At the end of the day 3/5 stars.

[Bridget Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

I always love a Christmas episode, haha. This was pretty mild and fluffy overall. Rocky is a cinnamon roll sweetheart of a raptor and Holly is an endearing FMC. I would've preferred a bit more dino smut, but that's just me!

[Kate Seymour · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Erin Robertson · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s the age old Hallmark movie plot-gorgeous young woman with a rich, handsome boyfriend returns home for Christmas for the first time in years and rekindles with an old flame- who will she choose? Oh, but did I mention that the old flame is a dinosaur? Welcome to Jurassic Park After Dark-‘All I Want For Christmas Is Utahraptor’.

While perusing NetGalley, I stumbled upon this hilarious title and cover- hence began my first foray into dinosaur erotica (not a phrase I ever thought I’d utter). I’m not normally a reader of romance or smut, but I was intrigued and humoured by the premise of humans and sentient dinosaurs having sex-who wouldn’t be?!

This book is hard to rate because it is objectively bad - it’s terribly written, clichéd, and over the top ridiculous-however, it’s supposed to be. One look at the dedication and trigger warnings will tell you that (also the use of phrases ‘dinosaur dong’ and ‘lickstravaganza’).

Surprisingly for a very short book (less than 50 pages), there is quite a bit of world building, however at the same time, I’m assuming people are reading mainly for the dinosaur sex. And there was only one sex scene in the whole book. I mean it did take up a few pages but still, if we’re going to read dinoporn, it should be at least 80% filth right?

At least I know this- I’ll never look a T-Rex the same way again.

[Presley Howard · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I do feel like the 2 stars is a little generous, I will say that I did get a good laugh or two out of this book. I have no real words for how to describe this book. I can confidently say I will not read another one. This was one of the wildest stories I have read.

Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.