Overall: 4.5 rounded to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: Not much
Perspective: first person from the heroine only
More character focused or plot focused? character (and sex!)
How did the speed of the story feel? medium (it’s a short story so it feels fast in that aspect)
When mains are first on page together: Quite soon in (pg 9 of 44)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes! A few years later.
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy from the author in e-book format

Should I read in order?
This is book 1 of Marrying the Monster series.

Basic plot:
Violet needs to escape an undesirable marriage decreed by her father. Who better than her best friend to rescue her?

Give this a try if you want:
- Regency
- monster romance
- Orc hero / human heroine
- class difference (heroine is engaged to a Lord, hero is the stable master)
- childhood friends to lovers
- runaway marriage
- some instalust/instalove feels
- high steam – most of the story is sex
- short story

Ages:
- heroine is the eldest sister...I would guess maybe around 20? And hero I think is a similar age as they were childhood friends

First line:
“I will not marry him!”

My thoughts:
I just want to say again I love titled chapters! Little headers like ‘The Proposal’, ‘The Wedding’, etc I just love it when authors do that.

I’ve read a few Leana books now and I love how bite sized and steamy they are. I know they are erotica and with that I sometimes don’t get an HEA at all or sometimes they end with an implied happy for now and my romance heart always wants an epilogue or something a bit more solid and I was so happy in this one we get that!

This one is a steamy orc/human pairing featuring class difference, runaway bride tropes. Being such a short story, don’t go in expecting a lot of plot or character depth – just some steamy wedding night fun! I love reading stories like this to reset, or in between longer reads, or even just to boost my book count for the month, or with Leana – to try some new types of monster heroes.

I have struggled so hard with focusing right now – busy, busy personal life and lots of big changes happening – and I just NEED shorter books right now. And this one gave me the romance feels I was craving with a monster twist.

Cock/Hero Stats:

- hero is an orc – green skin and brown eyes
- tusks that graze her cheeks when he kisses and his tongue is a deep shade of pink
- for the cock – her fingers don’t meet, ‘as his girth was far too impressive’ ;) darker green than his skin, plenty of cum thattastes earthy and rich

Endearments

  Hero calls the heroine ‘my little flower’ 

Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)

- mention of parental death
- go into this story with loose historical expectations please – example – they are married by priest without mention of a special license/banns read – since this is obv a fantasy realm with orcs I think it’s believable to let those expectations go

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

  No 

 
Hows the consent? 

  It’s good! 

 
23% - kisses in the stable
38% - 🔥wedding night at the inn – hand job for him, oral for her, missionary, followed by more sex
68% - 🔥her on top at the inn
72% - 🔥her on top at their newly bought cabin
79% - 🔥blow job (complete), sex