I read one other story by this author last year and this one was a pleasant surprise after the first one I read, "How Stego Got His Groove Back". This story is a novella and moves along very quickly, so don't expect a deep, intricate plot. Like its name hints, it's got a Fifty Shades of Grey vibe, and I found it more enjoyable than I thought I would. It's well-written, with a much better storyline than the first one I read. Sure, it's quick-paced and a bit silly, but I found myself strangely liking this one. Not sure what that says about me, haha.

There really isn’t much to say about this book, everything you need to know is in the title. This is a fun, silly short story which has a surprisingly empowering message. The content is not for the faint of heart

It is, exactly, what you think it’s going to be. Dinosaur erotica. 50 shades but make it dinosaurs. And poly? And goats?

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC - I was so morbidly curious I just needed to give my brain a break from actual reading 🤣

Truly satirical and absolutely ludicrous, logistically unsound, insane, and funny af. What did I just read?

What did I just read? I dont even know where to start. I enjoyed it. It was weird, it was strange and had me questioning myself, but I enjoyed it.
Its not the most amazingly written book but I wasn't expecting it to be. It was definitely a fun read though.

A fun spicy romance between a billionaire dinosaur and a human virgin. Didn’t know how I was going to feel about this book but it was definitely one that I would read! If you’re thinking of reading this book definitely give it a read!!!

Simple virginal church girl wants carnal pleasures. Gets a job with an NDA that pays 1.2 million a year to do as her demanding boss demands. Sapphic romance, group loving, lots of kink, and a dauntingly named “apparatus”. (Not to be confused with an apatosaurus.)

Tonally similar to 50 Shades.

Except her boss is a dinosaur.

Faust is a silver tongued genius, infusing a thesaurus into the mouths of her gorgosaurus and his playmates (among other things), with language that lifts this above its completion.

This book is a 5 among monster smut, but for those who don’t appreciate it, it would be a 1.

Fifty Shades of Gorgosaur by Lola Faust is perfect book for erotica reader.

The storyline are not heavy in conflict and easy to read. I’ve expected a shifter romance but I’m wrong. It is the Gorgosaur, dinosaur romance. I’ll abdolutely recommend this book for a fast paced story reader.

Tristan
✅ gorgosaur
✅ CEO, billionaire
✅ no POV

Alessandra
✅ new employee
✅ virgin
✅ third person pov

Nellie
✅ personal assistant

✅ dinosaur
✅ suspense
✅ plenty of spicy scenes: intense and explicit
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 ( anal, bondage, voyeurism, spanking etc)

I’ll definitely need to read the next book by Lola Faust.

Definitely something I have never read before. Short and spicy novella for those with a more “wild” taste.

This was a lot of fun - This is'nt for everyone, and I'm not even sure it's for me. But well written, funny and smutty!

Kind of like a better written fan-fiction of Fifty Shades of Grey, but with a very different twist - or a Gorgosaur. It's short, so if you, like me, are curious, give it a try ;)

Fifty Shades of Gorgosaur is exactly what I expected it to be—a fun, outrageous ride. This book delivers on its promise of humour and absurdity, blending the tropes of billionaire romance with dinosaurs!

Imagine Fifty Shades of Grey but with a dinosaur billionaire boss and his attractive associates. The result is quick, quirky, and unapologetically over-the-top dinosaur smut. It’s a story that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and neither should you. If you want something offbeat, funny, and wildly entertaining, this book delivers in spades.

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for gifting me the e-book ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to Lola Faust for this ARC, and introduction to the world of dinosaur erotica.
This was exactly what I thought it was going to be, and all of my expectations were met. It was fun, and humorous, and absolutely wild.

I had to read Fifty Shades of Gorgosaur to see if that plot was for real (and some of the hints as to what was afoot in other reviews). This was highly ridiculous, but highly ridiculous books can be great. This wasn’t so great not due to the crazy plot (the blurb isn’t lying), but rather because it parked too long on certain pieces (Alessandra’s upbringing) but not enough on others (why her ex eventually did what he did) in an effort to maybe check some boxes for having provided character background and action.

Also, I’m still curious how Tristan the Gorgosaur in question communicated. Call me ridiculous in turn for trying to question the logic of the story but in the book’s storyline a lot was at odds. Pick this up if you’re curious, it has to be read to be believed, but don’t expect it to read well.

In this Fifty Shades mash-up, Christian Grey is now Tristan Black, and he’s a Gorgosaur :)

Two things can be true. This is a silly, ridiculous piece of erotica containing dinosmut, with some menage. There’s conspicuous consumption of luxury brands, plenty of aspirational moments and glossy interactions in this BDSM-ish satirical homage to Fifty Shades of Grey. At the same time it’s a scorching criticism of purity culture and the acceptance of distorted biblical ideas. Yes, this is a lot in a novella. It’s held together by the most camp language, especially pertaining to our heroine Alessandra’s lady parts: her love flower, ecstasy button, love temple, pleasure boat, and love portal are some examples. Luckily or not Tristan, our Gorgosaur is not treated to the same florid vocabulary - he is 'a perfect delicious hunk of prehistoric sexiness'. Alessandra is equally smitten by Ms Nellie Hammond, Tristan's executive assistant ('and the most beautiful woman in the world').

Author Lola must have had a ball writing this, it's funny and sexy and smutty 🌶🌶🌶 and completely over the top. I've been looking forward to it all year!

Some of the symbolism is a little arcane, especially around the sacrificial goats, but that would be a quibble. I love this timely reminder that even a why-choose dinosmut novella is still political.

Thank you thank you Lola Faust, NetGalley and Books Go Social for the ARC. Opinions are my own.

An insane little adult novella that had me getting the word out to my book girls.
Virginal naive young woman with a hightened sexual prowess, in need of something in particular. Things get wild and weird. Things get deadly. Things get ridiculously horny.
Not my typical jam, but still something to definitely start up a conversation about. Would recommend this if you are part of a book group so you can all have an idea of particular taste, but enjoy the sizzling taboo reptilian nature of it all.

fifty shades but with a dinosaur billionaire boss and his hot associates. this was quick, funny and pure cretaceous smut—never to be taken too seriously and perfect as a brain reset between other reads.

Fifty Shades of Grey but make it dinosaurs.
Our FMC is down on her luck and really needs a job, so she interviews for an elusive multi-billionaire.
Yes the rich dude is actually a rich dinosaur that likes to use goats blood as lube.
FMC also has more chemistry with the other assistant than she does the dino.

Okay, folks, you know the drill: here's the list of trigger warnings included in "Fifty Shades of Gorgosaur".

"Job interviews, 'quiet luxury', billionaires, organized religion, disorganized religion, religious shame, youth pastors, Satan, hell, death (actual), torture (implied), taxes (implied), sex (including but not limited to oran, anal, manual, group, solo, dinosaur), light bondage, light spanking, sushi, Slavoj Zizek, Elon Musk, Kyle (any), prehistory, power, portraiture, raccoons, human resources, leather furniture, goats, animal death (goat), blood, true love" (loc. 6*)

Missing from the list of trigger warnings is whatever this is: "Tristan Black's meat-laden breath was warm and humid even from this distance; it smelled like a bourgeois butcher shop, the kind of high-end meatery that also sold artisan barbecue sauces and was always promising to have Beyond Meat burgers in stock the following week, but never did, but they *would*, one day. (loc. 548)

(File under Things That Make Me Happy to Be a Vegetarian)

There's also a line referencing pumpkin spice lattes that I will *not* quote here, but that makes me also very glad that I don't care for PSLs...

At any rate, this book is something of an oddity in Faust's work—in that we're well into the book before things turn dino, and in fact much of the book seems to be inspired by low-budget adult films. I was trying to remember what this reminded me of, and it's just hit me—the podcast "My Dad Wrote a Porno"! Of course. It's full of improbable events and even more improbable sex and instalove and...well, a lot of blood, actually, which is maybe where the comparison falters.

I have a lot of questions about the Christian Grey—excuse me, Tristan Black—of this book: he is (this is sort of a spoiler, but really only if you haven't looked at the front cover) a reclusive billionaire who makes his money doing...what? He can't talk, and how he communicates remains a mystery. "Sure, he couldn't speak," thinks the heroine. "But silence and mystery were part of his charm." (loc. 828) I mean, on the one hand, a dinosaur who can't talk sounds a hell of a lot better than the original Christian Grey...or Edward Cullen (Christian Grey's inspiration), for that matter. But on the other hand, how do you go from zero to gang-bang to the way this book ends in what I think is a couple of days without ever having any idea what goes on in Black's brain beyond "I want to act out bad adult films"?

My gosh.

Anyway, I still have no idea how to rate these books but am giving this one a cheerful three stars instead of four for Not Enough Dinosaur and for not enough explanation of how this particular dinosaur functions in this world. Depending on how your WTF meter is doing today, you might find it to be a one-star book...or a five-star one. You have been warned.

*Quotes are from an ARC and may not be final.

Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.

I honestly don’t know what I was expecting.. there was too much inner dialogue. Idk why the ex was brought in? I feel like I know more about Ms. Hammond than Mr. black 😂

Alessandra Ironside takes a chance on a high-paying job as the assistant to billionaire CEO Tristan Black. The job pays so well because he wants to keep Alessandra around. But he's not your average human boss. Nope, he's a dinosaur...specifically a Gorgosaurus!

If this story sounds familiar, it's because this is 50 Shades of Gray inspired with dinosaurs (but honestly, I think it's better)! This was such a fun story to read - the dedication and trigger warnings pages were hilarious (poor Kyle though haha). There were lots of descriptive spicy scenes that had me kicking my feet and giggling. I will be reading from this author again!

Things I didn't like or were misleading - I think that there was actually more chemistry with Ms. Hammond than Tristan Black. I also felt like some scenes happened rather quickly. I get that it's a short story, but after getting a job, I feel like the next page was sex, and the one after was marriage.

This book will be published December 2, 2024. Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the opportunity to read an Advanced Reader's Copy (ARC) in exchange for my honest review.

oh wow! is all i have to say about that because i went into this with no expectations of it being good and somehow it was even worse which i thought was impossible so.