Audiobook Review: A Heart of Gold: Dragon Prince’s Mate. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Heart of Gold: Dragon Prince’s Mate by Stephanie Foxe

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

He’d never known temptation…until he met her.
Alaric lives only for one thing: to fulfill his duty as crown prince of Aurum.

It was never a problem until he snuck into a human bar on the eve of his betrothal, and met her. The woman who smacked his hand when he tried to steal her food. The woman who was as strong as any dragon he’d ever met.

He didn’t expect to form a bond with her after just one night together. A bond he will have to break to marry his betrothed and fulfill his duty as crown prince.
If you want romance, laugh-out-loud moments, and spice, then A Heart of Gold is your perfect fantasy escape.

Read for:
♥ Prince Charming, if you always wanted him to sweep you off your feet and rip your shirt off
♥ Soulmates
♥ Dragons who rule the world
A Heart of Gold

A Royal Mess!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😠😘🤓🥰😍
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Anastasia – She went to college for social work only to find out too late that the job she wanted required a master’s degree. Now she was working as a barista in a local coffee shop and not doing too well at that. While she was suspended for a few days for arguing with a customer, she just wanted to relax and do some window shopping over the weekend.

The Hero: Alaric – he is a dragon shifter and the crown prince of Aurum who was out at a human bar looking for a one night stand the night before his wedding/binding to a woman he barely knew. Everything he did was for the family and the kingdom, but this night was to be for him alone.

The Story: Alaric was surprised to meet Anastasia who was just a normal girl eating some onion rings at the bar, dressed in a long-sleeved band t-shirt and not in a minuscule dress and looking for a hookup. Anastasia thought the guy was smoking hot and a bit too good for the bar they were in. She had a suspicion that he wasn’t human when he told her he had never eaten an onion ring. She knew dragon shifters didn’t like human food, but he really wanted to try her food. The two of them ended up hitting it off and went to her place to hook up.

That was when things started getting weird. They both enjoyed themselves more than just a little, but when Alaric noticed the beginnings of a bond forming between them, he freaked out and left. Anastasia woke up the next morning feeling hotter than she ever had before and was just hoping she didn’t catch some unknown dragon STD. Alaric couldn’t believe that it was actually the bond, because dragons didn’t bond with humans.

This book really started out with a bang (pun intended) and I liked the plot from the start. Though it took a while before we got much world building. I mean we could tell from the start that dragon shifters were known to the general population, and they had their own bars, restaurants, etc. They didn’t mix with humans much, and seemed to think they were better than humans. Though it did mention that there were dragon shifters and draekons, with draekons being the result of a dragon shifter and human mating. I found out later that the dragons ruled over the humans as well.

This book is told in dual points of view via dual narration. It was narrated by Shane East and Kiera Stevens. Kiera has a youthful feminine voice with an American accent which is very pleasant. Shane East has a deep sexy voice and speaks with an English accent, and he is one of my favorite narrators. I was happily surprised that the story was so good and I enjoyed every bit of it. This was a good sized standalone, which I love but it was one case where I was wishing it wasn’t. I would love to read more dragon stories like this.

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