As an enjoyed of Fantasy, and with my recent foray into, well, smut, I suppose it was only a matter of time before I moved into sampling the realm of monster smut. 

It wasn't a bad book, per se. Not like Ann Rice. The story had a lot to recommend it. In fact, there was a point where I actually felt quite emotional. I liked the orc culture, the idea that there are no female orcs and they need human women to bear their sons.

I was actually a little disappointed that there wasn't anything about orc semen helping make labor and delivery easier on women what with the way they kept talking to about how important it was to eat it and be bathed in it and all that.

So yeah, there were things I liked. Things I didn't like were that I found Jule whiny and annoying. Maybe it's because I  tend to try and be a chameleon in other cultures, learn about them and blend in but I didn't feel like Jule changed enough to have the ending make sense. I just didn't see it. She spent most of the time whining and arguing with Grimarr. 

I wasn't the biggest fan of Grimarr in a lot of ways either. He spent a lot of time with tears streaking down his cheeks. That's fine, he can be emotional, but he's also an orc. 

I think that's the biggest thing to me, you expect orcs to be a certain way, and in a lot of ways he was but there was an aspect of it that just didn't sit right with me. It wasn't anything bad per se, just wasn't my cup of tea. 

I found the way that some orcs spoke modern English and others like they were from an old time fantasy novel to be weird and incongruous. I understand the author was trying to go for showing that some orcs had accents while others spoke perfect common but it was jarring when reading it and all of a sudden the characters are speaking like modern people with modern slang and swearing. It just took me out of the story. 

Finally, the sex. For the most part it wasn't bad but it wasn't that hot either. Lots of seed gushing everywhere, lots of giant orc peni, lots of farming metaphors, lots of "getting you with child." and so on. Of special note is the butt sex. 

Let me just take an aside to talk about this. For some reason a lot romance or erotica authors feel the need to put in butt sex. Seemingly randomly. Maybe they think it's edgy but I don't know how many times in an otherwise vanilla book you'll just have this random butt sex thrown in, usually towards the end. 

I recognize this is a thing that some people like and it is sexy to them. That's fine. You do you, boo. I usually skip these sections in recognition of that and move on with life. 

However,  I need to mention It here because we have just spent almost the entire book hearing about how massive this orc's penis is. Like not just huge, I'm talking yuuuuugee. It was deeply disturbing to me that he put that massive tree trunk in her, ah, "back door" without any issue. No tearing, no pain, no lasting effects, just insane orgasims. Look, that's just ridiculous. "But Honniker," you might be saying "you're reading a book of Orc smut." yes, yes I am and there are some things I just can't suspend my disbelief for- massive orc dick in a human anus being one of them. 

Moving on, even though it sounds like there was a lot I didn't like about this book, and that I had a lot to say about it I did pretty much enjoy my time with it. As I said, it's not the worst thing I've read and it was a decent introduction to this subgenre. I think a lot of what I didn't like was more personal opinion, than mechanical or writing issue so I still recommend this book if you are into this genre.