AT Qureshi

When Saphira opened up her café for baby dragons and their humans, she wasn’t expecting it to be so difficult to keep the fires burning. It turns out, young dragons are not the best magical animals to keep in a café, and replacing all that burnt furniture is costing Saphira more than she can afford from selling dragon-roasted coffee.

Aiden is a local gardener, and local heart-throb, more interested in his plants than actually spending time with his disobedient baby dragon. When Aiden walks into Saphira’s café, he has a genius idea – he'll ask Saphira to train his baby dragon, and he'll pay her enough to keep the café afloat.

Saphira’s happy-go-lucky attitude doesn’t seem to do anything but irritate the grumpy-but-gorgeous Aiden, except that everywhere she goes, she finds him there. But can this dragon café owner turn her fortunes around, and maybe find love along the way?

The Baby Dragon Cafe

Cassie 

A mystical twist on a cozy cafe story!! A girl who longs to have a dragon of her own opens up her dream cafe after her Grandmother passed where baby dragons are welcome. One day she meets a guy who never wanted a dragon but inherited a baby dragon egg from his passed brother. They team up to raise and train the baby dragon and fall in love in the process. Very cute, comforting and easy read!

Leah Diaz 

I think if this had been marketed as a YA novel I may have rated it higher (maybe?), it fits that label more appropriately than adult fantasy/Romantasy, even adult cozy fantasy.

The characters are very immature for mid-late twenties adults, and their dialogue comes across whiney and very repetitive, I had a hard time taking them seriously.  Words are frequently repeated in the same sentence or paragraph throughout the book.

I wanted so much more from this book: better characters with more depth to their story (and relationship); more about the dragons, their training, etc; and more of a cohesive story. It felt like we had several minor conflicts that were resolved in 2-5 pages rather than some ultimate goal that needed to be achieved, or a problem to be solved. 

I have no idea why dragon racing is such an underground sport or so dangerous, but that was brought up constantly through the book. 

I didn't absolutely hate it, but I just wanted more from it if that makes sense. I think it could have been better, and maybe future installments in the series will be.

(also this is my formal request to never read the phrase 'golden shower tree' again)

Megan Murray 

2.75 ⭐ Rounded up

I think if this had been marketed as a YA novel I may have rated it higher (maybe?), it fits that label more appropriately than adult fantasy/Romantasy, even adult cozy fantasy.

The characters are very immature for mid-late twenties adults, and their dialogue comes across whiney and very repetitive, I had a hard time taking them seriously.  Words are frequently repeated in the same sentence or paragraph throughout the book.

I wanted so much more from this book: better characters with more depth to their story (and relationship); more about the dragons, their training, etc; and more of a cohesive story. It felt like we had several minor conflicts that were resolved in 2-5 pages rather than some ultimate goal that needed to be achieved, or a problem to be solved. 

I have no idea why dragon racing is such an underground sport or so dangerous, but that was brought up constantly through the book. 

I didn't absolutely hate it, but I just wanted more from it if that makes sense. I think it could have been better, and maybe future installments in the series will be.

(also this is my formal request to never read the phrase 'golden shower tree' again)

Here are some things you can expect:

🚪 Closed Door/Fade To Black

💍 Fake Marriage

🐉 She trains his baby dragon

☕ Cafe owner FMC

🌼 Landscape designer/gardener MMC 

🛏️ Only one bed 

💕 Insta Love 



Saphira has made her dream come true - she's opened her café, one specifically welcoming baby dragons and their owners.  Due to the very temperamental nature of baby dragons they tend to set things alight, so Saphira gets a small stipend from the town to repair damages.  But she's running herself and Lavinia ragged.  They really need a break and then catastrophe happens.  A baby dragon takes out their fancy coffee machine!

Aiden may be from a prominent dragon-owning family but he's much happier pottering around in gardens.  After the death of his brother he inherited his dragon egg, which has now hatched.  Sparky is cute as a button but Aiden finds himself struggling to bond with the baby.  Saphira however, seems to be able to get the little menace to behave and Aiden persuades her to help him train Sparky - with a cash injection to her business.

Whilst Aiden, Saphira and Sparky are the main characters in the book, the secondary characters of Lavinia, Theo, Emmy and Ginny are all worthy characters.  They help to move the story along and flesh out our MC's world and family. The story is most definitely low angst and no spice (only a bit of lip locking and everything else is essentially fade-to-black).  This could be a contemporary romance as without the dragons everything else felt very real world and contemporaneous.  However, I think that this would be a great introductory book into fantasy for older children/teenagers or anyone who is unsure if they would like a heavier fantasy storyline.

That said there are some big themes couched in cosy terms such as being seen as the outcast/other, not fitting in, grief and stress.

Saphira is like human sunshine and optimism.  Aiden is cranky, principled and out of his depth.  He's also deep in grief and can't quite work out his feelings over the death of his brother and trying to keep Sparky out of the family "business".

I was happy to see that there are going to be more books in the series featuring some of the secondary characters.  My only real criticism is I would like to have seen more done with the possibility of Saphira's father and her mother's death.  It would have added a bit more body to the story I think.

Nicola Sarah Brooks

Saphira has made her dream come true - she's opened her café, one specifically welcoming baby dragons and their owners.  Due to the very temperamental nature of baby dragons they tend to set things alight, so Saphira gets a small stipend from the town to repair damages.  But she's running herself and Lavinia ragged.  They really need a break and then catastrophe happens.  A baby dragon takes out their fancy coffee machine!

Aiden may be from a prominent dragon-owning family but he's much happier pottering around in gardens.  After the death of his brother he inherited his dragon egg, which has now hatched.  Sparky is cute as a button but Aiden finds himself struggling to bond with the baby.  Saphira however, seems to be able to get the little menace to behave and Aiden persuades her to help him train Sparky - with a cash injection to her business.

Whilst Aiden, Saphira and Sparky are the main characters in the book, the secondary characters of Lavinia, Theo, Emmy and Ginny are all worthy characters.  They help to move the story along and flesh out our MC's world and family. The story is most definitely low angst and no spice (only a bit of lip locking and everything else is essentially fade-to-black).  This could be a contemporary romance as without the dragons everything else felt very real world and contemporaneous.  However, I think that this would be a great introductory book into fantasy for older children/teenagers or anyone who is unsure if they would like a heavier fantasy storyline.

That said there are some big themes couched in cosy terms such as being seen as the outcast/other, not fitting in, grief and stress.

Saphira is like human sunshine and optimism.  Aiden is cranky, principled and out of his depth.  He's also deep in grief and can't quite work out his feelings over the death of his brother and trying to keep Sparky out of the family "business".

I was happy to see that there are going to be more books in the series featuring some of the secondary characters.  My only real criticism is I would like to have seen more done with the possibility of Saphira's father and her mother's death.  It would have added a bit more body to the story I think.

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