Nanny for the Dragon Daddy

Shifter Needs a Nanny, Book 1

De: Milly Taiden

Narrado por: Tor Thom, Addison Barnes

Poppy Dunsfield needs a job.

Since she likes kids, a nanny position seems ideal. She thinks she can handle the secluded location, but her employer's mysterious disappearances and strange happenings are too much. She can't stay, no matter how handsome he is or how his voice sends delicious shivers down her back.

Cadmus Xarveom, dragon shifter, suspects his brother's and sister-in-law's deaths weren't an accident. When his new nanny turns out to be his mate, she makes investigating difficult. He really wants to get to know her and romance his woman, but first, he has to find a killer.

Cadmus's secrets catch up with him when he discovers the enemy has infiltrated his home and has sights set on getting revenge. With Poppy oblivious to the danger, the distractions and little fibs could cost him the lives of the two people he's come to love the most.

©2022 Milly Taiden (P)2023 Podium Audio

I didn’t connect with the FMC

And the MMC didn’t really act like an alpha character. I almost stopped at Chapter 10. I feel like the FMC came in strong right away. Not in a strong character but more like a needy person and assumed that he needs to explain everything to her - like he owes her anything b
I don’t have an issue with insta-love, I like those but it doesn’t work in this book. At some point it felt like she’s manipulating the MMC.

Second Read on this one

I loved this story and the characters. Beautiful little adventure for the female lead but great roles for the others as well. Fun shifter heroes and romance.

good plot

I really liked. Storyline was good and you didn't know what to expect. can't wait to read the next in the series.

this reads like a YA book that someone re-marketed with sex scenes

basic almost AI-written story with abrupt chapter changes and scripted sex scenes. nonsense female POV with contradictions throughout. read only if it's free and have nothing else to pass the time.

Is chemistry in the book with us?

Is chemistry between the main characters in the book with us? Because I can’t find it. Bland. Bland. Bland. Molly usually brings the sizzle but this one was so tame and quite frankly boring. There was a lot of “telling us what was happening” instead of immersing us in the sights/sounds/smells etc. I stopped at chapter 48. DNF.
This was probably a fluke. Don’t give up on this author.

Story is not consistent with authors’ norm. Narration was insistent.

I have read/listened to most of Milly Taiden’s books. Although, historically some are better than others, this story was clearly not up to Taiden’s standards. The plot was thin and the characters had very little depth. It’s almost as if someone else authored the book. Furthermore the 2 narrators were inconsistent with each other when discussing the name of one of the main characters. The child’s name was read as: Aleena, Elaina, and Alaina. Pick one name — any one —and stick with it throughout the book. Also, “wrecked havoc” and “reeked havoc” are not the same. And this was not the only mispronunciation. It’s like the narrators failed to pre-read the book before recording. I know this is nit picking, but I expected more and felt jipped.

Good story

Good performances. Interesting plot and characters. The end dragged out with details about the HEA that almost all HEAs have but more succinctly.

Poorly written

Clumsy character interactions, terribly contrived tension, just really poorly written. The female narrator isn’t bad, but the male states his lines, he doesn’t read them like he is telling a story. He states them line by line. It’s distracting. I am just glad that it was free. It was just so bad I couldn’t finish it. Even the scenes a person listens to these types of books for were bad. I won’t waste my time with others by this writer.

Great narrator!

Story was very slow moving. The people in the story made it more enjoyable but the story itself needs a big rewrite.

Meh

The heroin is really just annoying and selfish. She creates problems we’re there isn’t any through the whole book. Comes off like an insecure teenager, hard to listen to.