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Her Secret Menagerie #2
On Wings
MP3 CD Format Magic ruined my life once. I can't let it happen again.
I grew up chasing the fae through the garden, pretending I saw ghosts in the house, and dreaming of dragons. That's all long behind me now. Mother's spells didn't save her and, in turn, I dedicated myself to science.
Work as a paleontologist is everything I dreamed it could be. You find solid facts buried thousands of years ago. You can quantify those facts. It's real. You can touch it, prove it, and most of all; you know it works. My team never meant to find a nest of dragon eggs at a dig site. And I'm the only one who recognizes what they are.
Now, I have a fire-breathing freak chasing me out of the sane world and into his. Worse, he has a whole bunch of friends with him. Why? Because I'm the only one who can help them retrieve the nest.
They’re dragging me back into the supernatural, a place I never wanted to see again and one I didn't truly believe in. Drowning in debt like so many others, I need the money the dragons are offering—but not if it burns me down in the process.
Contains mature themes.
I grew up chasing the fae through the garden, pretending I saw ghosts in the house, and dreaming of dragons. That's all long behind me now. Mother's spells didn't save her and, in turn, I dedicated myself to science.
Work as a paleontologist is everything I dreamed it could be. You find solid facts buried thousands of years ago. You can quantify those facts. It's real. You can touch it, prove it, and most of all; you know it works. My team never meant to find a nest of dragon eggs at a dig site. And I'm the only one who recognizes what they are.
Now, I have a fire-breathing freak chasing me out of the sane world and into his. Worse, he has a whole bunch of friends with him. Why? Because I'm the only one who can help them retrieve the nest.
They’re dragging me back into the supernatural, a place I never wanted to see again and one I didn't truly believe in. Drowning in debt like so many others, I need the money the dragons are offering—but not if it burns me down in the process.
Contains mature themes.
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First published September 26, 2020
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December 19, 2020
Something different
Ms. Beckett has written a new form of the traditional dragon vs human story. The four dragons are shape shifters, the human a woman, a witch, of immense power.
The catch? The men just want her for her ability to hatch ancient dragon eggs. Olivia knows the opals found on a dig she is part of are really dragon eggs. After all, she has one her mother left her.
So now it's help the boys steal the eggs the museum currently has, find sanctuary...and maybe give in to the intense attraction growing between the five of them.
A seesaw of love, distrust, and running for their eggs lives keeps you turning page after page.
Ms. Beckett has written a new form of the traditional dragon vs human story. The four dragons are shape shifters, the human a woman, a witch, of immense power.
The catch? The men just want her for her ability to hatch ancient dragon eggs. Olivia knows the opals found on a dig she is part of are really dragon eggs. After all, she has one her mother left her.
So now it's help the boys steal the eggs the museum currently has, find sanctuary...and maybe give in to the intense attraction growing between the five of them.
A seesaw of love, distrust, and running for their eggs lives keeps you turning page after page.
October 10, 2020
Loving this series
So far Puppy Love and On Wings, are fantastic reads! I love the strong women and the male on male bonds that so few build on. The only issue I have with the series thus far is waiting for the next book to read!
So far Puppy Love and On Wings, are fantastic reads! I love the strong women and the male on male bonds that so few build on. The only issue I have with the series thus far is waiting for the next book to read!
October 22, 2020
Great reading
I really enjoyed this book and loved the characters and how they came together. I hope there would be another book for them since it ended that there should be more. It was nice to see Sadie and her mates included but I hope Hudson wasn't hurt to bad.
I really enjoyed this book and loved the characters and how they came together. I hope there would be another book for them since it ended that there should be more. It was nice to see Sadie and her mates included but I hope Hudson wasn't hurt to bad.
November 13, 2020
Wonderfully written
Oh my god this book was over way too quickly for me, I'd like to see the next installment as soon as possible.
Do they manage to change Olivia, and what happens to the fight ahead?
Will they be able to move on before the children grow?
Oh my god this book was over way too quickly for me, I'd like to see the next installment as soon as possible.
Do they manage to change Olivia, and what happens to the fight ahead?
Will they be able to move on before the children grow?
October 18, 2020
Great book
What!!!! I read this book so fast and the dang cliff hanger ending!!!!!! I need book two in my life asap
What!!!! I read this book so fast and the dang cliff hanger ending!!!!!! I need book two in my life asap
October 29, 2020
Really great read
This storyline keeps you intrigued. When I think I know which way it will go boom, totally went another way. Olivia and her dragons are worth reading about.
This storyline keeps you intrigued. When I think I know which way it will go boom, totally went another way. Olivia and her dragons are worth reading about.
November 27, 2020
Just a good author I've recent started reading and following. She brings the characters to life. Very talented and a good overall read
December 10, 2020
❤❤❤MUST READ❤❤❤
Such a great a sequel to an already Amazing series!! I'm loving this series!!
Can't believe I waited so long to start it!!😍
But also glad because now I can read more!!😘
This is a MUST READ!!!❤
Such a great a sequel to an already Amazing series!! I'm loving this series!!
Can't believe I waited so long to start it!!😍
But also glad because now I can read more!!😘
This is a MUST READ!!!❤
November 14, 2020
So Good
Another excellent read the series. Nicely written with great characters in an awesome story line. Easy read. I can hardly wait to read more
Another excellent read the series. Nicely written with great characters in an awesome story line. Easy read. I can hardly wait to read more
September 27, 2020
Fated
Olivia tries to be down to earth and logical. She has dedicated her life to facts and evidence. Giving up her belief in magic was a survival tactic after her Mom died. I think her Mom used up her magic and life knowing that she was sick so Olivia would be okay when she was gone. I don't think Olivia will ever find the truth of her mother dying despite her ability to use magic.
Eskal is a frustrating character but has great primal energy. He leads his Flight but he is messing up everything with his arrogance and aggression. His rudeness to the wolves and others in the community has burned all of his bridges and at the most important event of his life. Finding dragon eggs.
This was all completely fated but I enjoy fated mate types of romances every once in a while. I like the drama and the romance and the brushes with the law.
Olivia tries to be down to earth and logical. She has dedicated her life to facts and evidence. Giving up her belief in magic was a survival tactic after her Mom died. I think her Mom used up her magic and life knowing that she was sick so Olivia would be okay when she was gone. I don't think Olivia will ever find the truth of her mother dying despite her ability to use magic.
Eskal is a frustrating character but has great primal energy. He leads his Flight but he is messing up everything with his arrogance and aggression. His rudeness to the wolves and others in the community has burned all of his bridges and at the most important event of his life. Finding dragon eggs.
This was all completely fated but I enjoy fated mate types of romances every once in a while. I like the drama and the romance and the brushes with the law.
October 5, 2020
Fantasy takes flight.
Olivia is a digger. Having grown up immersed in magic, she abandoned it for science after it didn't save her mother. Piecing together the past is much more practical and rewarding. Until her dig finds rocks that aren't actually rocks. They're eggs. But humans aren't supposed to know that. And the flight of dragons that are overseeing the dig want them back. And they're going to use Olivia to make sure they get them, and hatch them.
Spoilers ahead.
I really enjoyed the first one. Until the 80% point where it became a glossed over speed train to the end. This one was... different. I didn't really like Olivia. Even before she accidentally hatched an egg then threatened its life for money. She was adamant about not wanting to do magic, then, it was ok, but only for money, then, poof total immersion and doing things that were never explained. Eskal was a jerk book 1, and continues that trend through this one. The others are merely an afterthought. We see Eskal's POV, not that it endears him any, a brief POV from Nariti but notice that lets us bond with him. We also have a jealous POV from Vadriq that is somewhat off-putting. And we get nothing at all from Iyadre. No real human descriptions of what they look like, outside of a mention of dark skin for one and a blue mowhawk and orange eyes on another. The flight is a mash of black, blue, gold and 1 never mentioned. The relationship that forms is shakily tossed together. It's barely an attraction before it's cut off by the ending. And, if the focus changes again, like it did after book 1, we'll never see it develop.
*Why would the wolves deny them the eggs?
*Why couldn't they talk things out instead of always fighting?
*Why would Hudson risk his pack by angering a flight of dragons, and his mate by fighting them physically?
*Why would Eskal break every rule when they had money to smooth things over? Why rob the museum? Simply steal the eggs on transit. Why break out of jail in dragon form? They could have a fleet of lawyers. Why fly above the city in broad daylight? There's no logic to it.
*Putting a kid in a dog crate? A plastic crate, nonetheless. The newborn was already breathing fire.
*If a newly hatched dragon can understand speech, it heard her threatening to kill it for cash.
*Now we have fae?
*I thought all her mom's journals were wherever she lived. She mentioned wanting them. Then she suddenly has one, makes a call, then boom, safe and fade to black?
I really enjoyed book 1. I only finished 2 because I kept hoping. It didn't have the same love and emotional connection. All the rules the pack was held to were thrown out the window. We have even more beings now, with not a shred of world building on any of them other than they all seem to hate each other. I just don't know. I'm going to try something else by her, not of this series and give it one more go. Maybe this was just the dreaded book 2 curse?
Olivia is a digger. Having grown up immersed in magic, she abandoned it for science after it didn't save her mother. Piecing together the past is much more practical and rewarding. Until her dig finds rocks that aren't actually rocks. They're eggs. But humans aren't supposed to know that. And the flight of dragons that are overseeing the dig want them back. And they're going to use Olivia to make sure they get them, and hatch them.
Spoilers ahead.
I really enjoyed the first one. Until the 80% point where it became a glossed over speed train to the end. This one was... different. I didn't really like Olivia. Even before she accidentally hatched an egg then threatened its life for money. She was adamant about not wanting to do magic, then, it was ok, but only for money, then, poof total immersion and doing things that were never explained. Eskal was a jerk book 1, and continues that trend through this one. The others are merely an afterthought. We see Eskal's POV, not that it endears him any, a brief POV from Nariti but notice that lets us bond with him. We also have a jealous POV from Vadriq that is somewhat off-putting. And we get nothing at all from Iyadre. No real human descriptions of what they look like, outside of a mention of dark skin for one and a blue mowhawk and orange eyes on another. The flight is a mash of black, blue, gold and 1 never mentioned. The relationship that forms is shakily tossed together. It's barely an attraction before it's cut off by the ending. And, if the focus changes again, like it did after book 1, we'll never see it develop.
*Why would the wolves deny them the eggs?
*Why couldn't they talk things out instead of always fighting?
*Why would Hudson risk his pack by angering a flight of dragons, and his mate by fighting them physically?
*Why would Eskal break every rule when they had money to smooth things over? Why rob the museum? Simply steal the eggs on transit. Why break out of jail in dragon form? They could have a fleet of lawyers. Why fly above the city in broad daylight? There's no logic to it.
*Putting a kid in a dog crate? A plastic crate, nonetheless. The newborn was already breathing fire.
*If a newly hatched dragon can understand speech, it heard her threatening to kill it for cash.
*Now we have fae?
*I thought all her mom's journals were wherever she lived. She mentioned wanting them. Then she suddenly has one, makes a call, then boom, safe and fade to black?
I really enjoyed book 1. I only finished 2 because I kept hoping. It didn't have the same love and emotional connection. All the rules the pack was held to were thrown out the window. We have even more beings now, with not a shred of world building on any of them other than they all seem to hate each other. I just don't know. I'm going to try something else by her, not of this series and give it one more go. Maybe this was just the dreaded book 2 curse?
October 11, 2020
It wasn't as good as the first book. Mainly focused on the eggs so we don't get a lot of relationship development until the last 30pages or so. It was more like a switch got flipped and she went from almost hating 1 of them and barely talking/interacting with the other 3 to not being able to be without all 4 of them. Then, after all that, things were left in the air anyways. To top it off, the Fontaines came off as jerks in this one when they weren't any such thing in their own book. I did not like that at all!
November 16, 2020
How do you like your eggs?
XXX! ADULT CONTENT, READER DISCRETION ADVISED. Olivia is a paleontologist. She liked to dig in the dirt. She was living the dream working for a museum at a dig site when she and her care discover gems? Only the site she was working at was owned by werewolves who had purchased the lands from dragons. The dragons really wanted the gems. Only Olivia knew they weren't gems, because she was a witch. They were Dragon eggs. The dragons needed her help to get the eggs away from the museum. That's just the beginning.
XXX! ADULT CONTENT, READER DISCRETION ADVISED. Olivia is a paleontologist. She liked to dig in the dirt. She was living the dream working for a museum at a dig site when she and her care discover gems? Only the site she was working at was owned by werewolves who had purchased the lands from dragons. The dragons really wanted the gems. Only Olivia knew they weren't gems, because she was a witch. They were Dragon eggs. The dragons needed her help to get the eggs away from the museum. That's just the beginning.
January 21, 2022
Very meh
I almost gave up finishing this book many times. I just kept hoping, since the first book was so good, that this one would eventually live up to it. It never did. It's an okay story, very disjointed though with a lot of discrepancies, and lots of grammar errors, word choice errors, and missing words. It's almost as if this book was written by an entirely different person than the first one.
I almost gave up finishing this book many times. I just kept hoping, since the first book was so good, that this one would eventually live up to it. It never did. It's an okay story, very disjointed though with a lot of discrepancies, and lots of grammar errors, word choice errors, and missing words. It's almost as if this book was written by an entirely different person than the first one.
April 1, 2021
Good Continuation of Series
Katelyn you left us hanging and wanting more. Late on this review, somehow missed doing it last year. Working through 3rd book now. Loved Olivia and how she came to accept the dragons. Another strong woman character but also willing to compromise when it is appropriate. And who can't resist little dragon whelps?😀
Katelyn you left us hanging and wanting more. Late on this review, somehow missed doing it last year. Working through 3rd book now. Loved Olivia and how she came to accept the dragons. Another strong woman character but also willing to compromise when it is appropriate. And who can't resist little dragon whelps?😀
October 15, 2023
Secret Dragon eggs
What do you get when an archaeologist mage discovers dragons eggs. Especially right after meeting a dragon. Sparks did fly. Jealousy from the alphas beta lover. Bonding while butting heads with werewolves, trying to hatch the rest of the eggs, humans shooting canons. Definitely made me feel unfinished business that needs addressing.
What do you get when an archaeologist mage discovers dragons eggs. Especially right after meeting a dragon. Sparks did fly. Jealousy from the alphas beta lover. Bonding while butting heads with werewolves, trying to hatch the rest of the eggs, humans shooting canons. Definitely made me feel unfinished business that needs addressing.
February 9, 2021
Awww there be dragons
The dragons were so adorable. I absolutely fell in love with the characters. I am not gonna lie there was some whining from the female character about the paranormal community but I got over that because of the storyline.
The dragons were so adorable. I absolutely fell in love with the characters. I am not gonna lie there was some whining from the female character about the paranormal community but I got over that because of the storyline.
December 4, 2023
For a dragon that lives for centuries, they are all pretty effing stupid. Adding on the TSTL heroine, you got the annoyance inducing reads.
Little characters development. No progression on the romance relationship sides as far as 75 percent into the book.
Dnf @75%
Little characters development. No progression on the romance relationship sides as far as 75 percent into the book.
Dnf @75%
October 22, 2020
Cliff Hanger
I really liked this book but I wasn't prepared for the cliff hanger at the end. Im not sure if there is another book?
I really liked this book but I wasn't prepared for the cliff hanger at the end. Im not sure if there is another book?
September 23, 2022
urban
Dragons and their tempers. Their love of family out of this world. Unhatched eggs are found then the drama begins.
Dragons and their tempers. Their love of family out of this world. Unhatched eggs are found then the drama begins.
July 25, 2024
Olivia is doing what she loves up at the archeological dig. But when a discovery sets off the dragons who sold this site to the wolves her life drastically changes. I’d say it’s slow burn but the books a quick read lol
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