Smash & Grab

Read on Election Day/Night 2020 and it was absolutely the crazysauce stupid fun dinosaur shifter M/M romance that I didn't know I needed. Sure, the plot doesn't make a lot of sense, and the bad guys are nothing more than moustache-twirling thugs, but the relationship between cute geeky paleontologist Simon and tattooed, mohawked raptor shifter Dalton is completely adorable. The scene in which Simon realizes the truth about the guy he is crushing on was so sweet it made me cry (granted, I was crying at everything and anything that night). And Dalton is a wonderful character, one minute taking down a deer to feast on (this is not a book for the faint-hearted or for militant vegetarians either) and the next exclaiming about how much he likes being the “little spoon” when he cuddles with Simon.

On another day I might have found this too silly or complained about the plot holes, but it was the right book at the right time. Thank you Maz Maddox, you helped more than you can know by producing this masterpiece of good-natured silliness.