Ben Sinclair is in charge of looking after the penguins and seals at the local zoo, he loves looking for bargains at the local antiques shop and is drawn to an old fashioned brass lamp straight out of Aladdin. He laughingly rubs his purchase one he gets home but there's no puff of smoke. However, things start to get spooky in the middle of the night. I totally loved this modern day fairytale. Its was fluffy and fun with a nice story.

2 stars

A very cute & fluffy romance without enough substance to it for my tastes, but an interesting premise & some cute animals kept me reading to the end.

[What I liked:]

•Ben has a cool job, & I learned some stuff about working with penguins at a zoo.

•I’m trying not to get spoiler-specific here, but I think the ending/resolution was done well. The problems don’t have overly simple, obvious solutions, & that helped maintain the narrative tension & keep things interesting.


[What I didn’t like as much:]

•The story is a bit shallow for my tastes. It’s kinda insta-love (within 4 days they’re besotted), Ben doesn’t have much depth as a character outside of his job, there aren’t any side characters of substance (Hemmy really annoyed me tbh), & the plot is random events until the end of the story. If you are into cute & fluffy romance without much content, you may like this though.

•The prose isn’t terrible, but it isn’t the smoothest. The dialogue is a bit overdone at points.

•I think it’s weird how everyone in Quimaria (or is it all Fae in general?) are supposed to be pansexual. It is another realm, but that’s not how human sexuality works. I guess what made me uncomfortable is this info was dropped after a discussion about how sexually liberated Quimarians are compared to uptight & sexually repressed British people (not my opinion, but Ben’s, FYI). That made it sound like being sexually liberated & comfortable with it = pansexuality, which is not how it works. Maybe that’s not what was intended & im reading to much into it.

CW: brief descriptions of physical violence/torture (a severe beating)

[I received an ARC ebook copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Thank you for the book!]