A review by djinnduffy
The Morning Wood Tree by Siggy Shade

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This book was unhinged from start to finish. And I really enjoyed the bulk of it. Absolutely wild title, cover, and premise (woman finds herself fucking and falling for a sentient magical tree that can manipulate its branches into whatever size and shape it wants) aside, I found this book to be rather sweet. Strange? Yes. Occasionally off putting? Certainly. Sometimes violent? Sure (though not between the romance leads). But sweet and endearing all the same. 

I really don’t want to say much more about it, beyond that it’s best to go in with an open mind. The only reason I’ve given the book three stars instead of four is because the last bit of plot lost me, which is saying something given the majority of the book is. You know. A lady fucking a sentient magical tree. 

Still, if you’d like some CWs, here’s what I can remember: incest, dubious consent, period sex, piss kink, violence, body horror, threat of sexual assault to FMC, though not from MMC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Sexual assault and Excrement

The man the FMC is originally going to marry is in some obscene incestuous cult with his parents where the men survive off drinking breast milk. IIRC, there is an older family member that attempts to assault the FMC. There is brief pissing in a sexual context as well as the sentient tree consuming her period blood during sex.