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A review by bookish_kristina
My Orc-y Breaky Heart by Ava Ross
2.0
The writing in this was pretty terrible but the story was OK, really cheesy and cringey, but OK.
Full disclosure, this book lost a full star due to boring monster peen. Firstly because it was not described at all and secondly because IT WAS NOT DESCRIBED AT ALL! Ms. Ross, ma’am, 90% of why we read these is for the creative dick building. Boo on you. Don’t write monster if you aren’t going to meet this basic requirement.
Other than that, this was fated-mates, small monster town, serial trope-soup book. The FMC was a writer of monster smut, so this was beyond meta, like annoyingly meta, but some might find that cute.
Anyway the MMC was way too grumpy and pushed the FMC away the entire book and the FMC was borderline desperate, and threw herself at him at every turn (she mowed his lawn in a bikini to seduce him).
It did have an interesting take on fated mates, where both were unsure of the authenticity of their feelings because of the mate bond, so I appreciated that because that’s how I always feel with these books, and his pet dragon was quite cute. Other than that this was not original and kinda boring.
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Sarah Mac is making me read this for science.
Full disclosure, this book lost a full star due to boring monster peen. Firstly because it was not described at all and secondly because IT WAS NOT DESCRIBED AT ALL! Ms. Ross, ma’am, 90% of why we read these is for the creative dick building. Boo on you. Don’t write monster if you aren’t going to meet this basic requirement.
Other than that, this was fated-mates, small monster town, serial trope-soup book. The FMC was a writer of monster smut, so this was beyond meta, like annoyingly meta, but some might find that cute.
Anyway the MMC was way too grumpy and pushed the FMC away the entire book and the FMC was borderline desperate, and threw herself at him at every turn (she mowed his lawn in a bikini to seduce him).
It did have an interesting take on fated mates, where both were unsure of the authenticity of their feelings because of the mate bond, so I appreciated that because that’s how I always feel with these books, and his pet dragon was quite cute. Other than that this was not original and kinda boring.
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Sarah Mac is making me read this for science.