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Orc Sworn #2
The Heiress and the Orc: A Monster Fantasy Romance
Once, he was her dearest friend... but now he's a brutal, terrifying monster. In a world of recently warring orcs and men, Ella Riddell is determined to ignore it all. She's the wealthiest heiress in the realm -- and soon, she's to wed a lord, and become a real lady. Until the night her engagement-party ends in utter disaster, and Ella runs for the forest -- and straight into the powerful arms of a hulking, deadly orc . And it's not just any orc. It's Natt . The orc Ella made a secret, foolish pledge to, many years past... He's huge and shameless and vicious, not at all the gangly, laughing daredevil Ella remembers. And he's here with one shocking, scandalous to wreak vengeance on Ella's betrothed. With her . With her hunger. Her surrender. Her undoing... Ella knows she should run, even if this deadly enemy was once a friend. Even if his scent drags up a dark, forbidden longing. Even if his kisses are the sweetest, filthiest thing she's ever tasted in her life... But will Ella truly risk her perfect future, for an orc? Will she face the bitter truths of the past, and brave the terrifying Orc Mountain, before more war rises to destroy them all? ______ Hardcover edition also includes a bonus epilogue!
386 pages, Hardcover
First published March 4, 2020
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Finley Fenn
23 books1,338 followersFinley Fenn is “the queen of dark orc romance” (Virgo Reader), and her ongoing Orc Sworn series has been praised as “sexy, romantic, angsty, and captivating … utter brilliance” (Romantically Inclined Reviews).
When she’s not obsessing over her stories, Finley loves reading, drooling over delicious orc artwork, and spending time with her incredible readers on Patreon, Discord, and Facebook. She lives in Canada with her beloved family, including her very own grumpy, gorgeous orc mate.
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THE ORC SWORN SERIES
1. The Lady and the Orc
1.5: Offered by the Orc: Free with signup at www.finleyfenn.com
2. The Heiress and the Orc
3. The Librarian and the Orc
4. The Duchess and the Orc
5. The Midwife and the Orc
6. The Maid and the Orcs
6.5. Tryggred by the Orc
7. The Governess and the Orc
7.5. Yuled by the Orcs
8. The Beauty and the Orcs
9. The Widow and the Orcs
10. The Artist and the Orc
THE ORC FORGED SERIES
1. The Sins of the Orc
2. The Fall of the Orc
THE MAGES SERIES
0.5: The Mage's Maid
1. The Mage's Match
1.5: The Mage's Groom: Free with signup at www.finleyfenn.com
2. The Mage's Master
When she’s not obsessing over her stories, Finley loves reading, drooling over delicious orc artwork, and spending time with her incredible readers on Patreon, Discord, and Facebook. She lives in Canada with her beloved family, including her very own grumpy, gorgeous orc mate.
News, free stories, and artwork: www.finleyfenn.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finley-Fenn/e/...
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/finleyfenn
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/finle...
Instagram: https://instagram.com/authorfinleyfenn
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/finleyfenn
Twitter: https://twitter.com/finleyfenn
THE ORC SWORN SERIES
1. The Lady and the Orc
1.5: Offered by the Orc: Free with signup at www.finleyfenn.com
2. The Heiress and the Orc
3. The Librarian and the Orc
4. The Duchess and the Orc
5. The Midwife and the Orc
6. The Maid and the Orcs
6.5. Tryggred by the Orc
7. The Governess and the Orc
7.5. Yuled by the Orcs
8. The Beauty and the Orcs
9. The Widow and the Orcs
10. The Artist and the Orc
THE ORC FORGED SERIES
1. The Sins of the Orc
2. The Fall of the Orc
THE MAGES SERIES
0.5: The Mage's Maid
1. The Mage's Match
1.5: The Mage's Groom: Free with signup at www.finleyfenn.com
2. The Mage's Master
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October 20, 2021
So much of this book was incredibly unpleasant. There will be mild spoilers because this is a ranting review. Larger spoilers in tags.
There was SO MUCH LYING in this story. Ella is a pawn between one power-hungry man and two power-hunger orcs. Her only crime is befriending a young orc when she was little and growing up poor. She waited NINE YEARS for her orc to return, after they made vows to each other.
The difference between the betrayal and book one and and the betrayal in this book is WHY those lies happened. The first book lies were done for the entire orc population. In this book, the H repeatedly lies to her so he could get a job promotion. In fact he wouldn’t have even sought her out after nine years had
Also, he’s had a What kind of strange new math are we learning here?
I hated that when he pierces her nipple he admits that he did it to his Glad that was a special moment for Ella.
As some sort of Ummm, thank you? Is this gift returnable or can we re-gift it to someone else? Is re-gifting frowned upon in the orc community?
The only one with any sense is Jule from book one, when she states
At least we have a different ending than the first book? Nope, same ending.
There was SO MUCH LYING in this story. Ella is a pawn between one power-hungry man and two power-hunger orcs. Her only crime is befriending a young orc when she was little and growing up poor. She waited NINE YEARS for her orc to return, after they made vows to each other.
The difference between the betrayal and book one and and the betrayal in this book is WHY those lies happened. The first book lies were done for the entire orc population. In this book, the H repeatedly lies to her so he could get a job promotion. In fact he wouldn’t have even sought her out after nine years had
Also, he’s had a What kind of strange new math are we learning here?
I hated that when he pierces her nipple he admits that he did it to his Glad that was a special moment for Ella.
As some sort of Ummm, thank you? Is this gift returnable or can we re-gift it to someone else? Is re-gifting frowned upon in the orc community?
The only one with any sense is Jule from book one, when she states
“So what happens now,” she snapped. “What orc-induced bullshit does Ella get to deal with next.”This is exactly how I felt reading this book.
At least we have a different ending than the first book? Nope, same ending.
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October 27, 2021Natt and Ella might be my 2nd favorites (I think I liked the midwife and Joarr the best, but these two might be my 2nd best). Natt's just...sunny. At least for an orc. Lol. Most of them are broody bitches.
(Also I really love this series. It's filthy and scratches the fantasy itch admirably well.)
(Also I really love this series. It's filthy and scratches the fantasy itch admirably well.)
June 8, 2023
This was the second book in this series and I found it an enjoyable and imaginative experience. Ella is a young heiress and Natt an Orc the two are previously acquainted through they haven't laid eyes on each other in 9 years.
This story begins the evening of Ella's engagement party to Alfred when she leaves the party upset only to encounter Natt in the process.
Right from the onset here, this was totally filthy with huge dripping orc appendages and plenty of dirty talk. If you have read the previous book which I do suggest you start with you will know exactly what's in store for you, but this one actually manages to crank the heat up to record levels and is in my opinion even raunchier than its predecessor so
If you are not into graphic descriptions and explicit language this is probably not going to be your bag me I was panting in pure anticipation with this.
Now, character-wise initially I had an issue with Ella like a big one.I really wanted to give her a slap around the noggins and tell her to wake the hell-up buttercup.
She just didn't come across well and she was so gung-ho about fulfilling her father's wishes and becoming a proper lady that she seemed to throw her conscience and morality out the window even going as far as to still be willing to marry a man she knew was far from good and decent.
She also despite her previous friendship with Natt seems quite judgmental and selfish with Ella at least initially it's always all about her and what she needs, how shes affected and how she was hurt by Natt's disappearance. not once considering the ramifications of what her Fiancee has actually done and how it has affected Natt beyond the initial superficial.
But as time elapsed and the more she was with Nat playing and observing his customs and interacting with his fellow Orcs at the mountain an almost metamorphosis starts to take place and we see Ella evolving to become something much more. I also think she is using all this lady business as an almost shield to hide and protect herself behind.
It is almost like an armour she has donned after she was left behind by the one she thought cared for her, after all as far as she is aware he abandoned her leaving her behind and moving on.
So let's talk Natt, he came across as quite the sweetheart, he was proper crude and incredibly filthy but was also sweet and adorable at the exact same time. He was king of the mixed messages and at times seemed to be almost internally conflicted in regards to his lass. He also had a tragic back story and a destiny to fulfil within his Clan.
Also, talk about a curveball I never saw that one approaching until it was practically flattening me and screaming get out the way. My heart hurt so bloody bad for poor Ella, who'd have thought I'd be feeling so awful for her especially considering my initial feelings towards her as well, but she did manage to grow on me as this progressed.
Then I just wanted to smack a different noggins for entirely different reasons.
So this is dual POV and I preferred the second half of this much more than the first. Its also quite a lengthy read and has some real meat behind it in more ways than one. Just Because of the tone of the narrative this may seem initially to be all about the heat and the sex but as you read further you realise this has hidden depths and also much greater messages to impart to its reader, hidden within the text, It's actually deeper than you initially imagine. This one gets a thumbs up from me I cant wait to read the next one in this series. I voluntary reviewed a copy of The Heiress and the Orc (Orc Sworn, #2).
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September 28, 2022
2 ⭐ Started strong with the friends-to-lovers romance, but I just can't with the betrayals and 'past lovers' drama.
Just like the first book, I'm finding this hard to rate. There are things I like about the story and things I strongly dislike.
What I liked:
The friends-to-lovers/second-chance romance was sweet. It was adorable that Ella and Natt were childhood friends. But it made the betrayal so much worse (to be discussed in the section below).
The writing was solid. The story did drag a bit in the middle, but it wasn't too bad.
I really LOVED the continued world-building and the politics! This book dived deeper into orc history, the differences between the five orc clans, orc morals, and life under Orc Mountain.
The sex scenes were definitely something. There was a lot more exhibitionism/voyeurism in this book - we see orc orgies as well as human/orc intercourse in public. I definitely wouldn't want to get railed by an orc, but I'll admit, these scenes are pretty hot.
What I didn’t like:
When it's mentioned during sexual encounters how the slit on the head of his dick 'kisses' her mouth or the inside of her vagina. I honestly don't know if I understood it accurately because there were a few times I thought Ella was like, making out with the slit, and it was kissing her back. lol
Past lover drama kills me. I genuinely hate this in every book, so if this doesn't bother you, just ignore this. I get that orcs screw each other because there's a lack of females, but I just find it f*cking weird that their lovers are their friends. I get this is a totally different world, but it's hard for me to wrap my brain around how this would ever work - detaching emotions from screwing friends.
The way Natt's childhood sexual assault was discussed. I'm uncomfortable with this topic in general, but I don't feel like the author went deep enough into his trauma. The SA is mentioned, and Natt talks a little about his feelings, but that's it. It just seemed brushed over. If something this traumatic is going to be brought up, I would have liked for Natt and Ella to have a deeper conversation about it.
Natt totally gaslit Ella, and that pissed me off. Natt makes Ella feel like a terrible person for how she continued to live her life after Natt disappeared the first time. Ella didn't know what had happened to him, and when he shows back up, he still isn't forthcoming about anything. So naturally, she carries on with her own assumptions, which are typically wrong, but how is she supposed to know that when Natt won't tell her a damn thing???? And then, she APOLOGIZES to Natt for being engaged to Alfred because she wanted safety and security as a woman in a man's world and for hurting Natt's feelings. And then, she puts him on a pedal stool and says how he's perfect, and brilliant, and deserves everything he's ever wanted. All while he's still lying to her, making her fall in love with him, only to betray her. Nah, bro, f*ck that.
The Betrayal. I can't. Even writing this now, I feel so much anger at Natt, and Grimmarr. That mother f*cker Grimmarr did this same sh*t to Jule, and now he is forcing Natt to do this to Ella???? All for a job??? And Natt agrees??? What the actual f*ck??? He literally used her while making her believe their relationship was real. And yeah, yeah, he says it is real, and he loves her, but how can you love someone knowing you're going to hurt them like that? Especially when you had been friends - best friends??? But then, of course, Ella understands why Natt did this, forgives him, and almost dies for him!! As if her life doesn't matter. F*ck this.
After the betrayal, we discover why Natt couldn't return to Ella for the last 10 years, which made me forgive him a little bit. But seriously, Finely Fenn needed to reveal this sh*t sooner, so I don't hate Natt throughout the entire book.
Natt and Ella end up watching Dammarr and Thrak f*ck as some sort of proof that maybe Dammarr has finally moved on from Natt. It was hot, but f*cking weird because the scene was introduced with talk of how Natt and Dammarr were lovers and how Dammarr was mean to Ella because he was jealous of her relationship with Natt. And again, Dammarr and Thrak are Natt's friends/bodyguards, so it was just weird.
During the epilogue, Ella is throwing a party at her estate and celebrating her pregnancy. However, none of the humans know she's married, and the baby is an orc-son. So somehow the humans are fine with her being pregnant (allegedly) out of wedlock, but she was supposed to be a virgin before marriage? I don't quite understand the morals or what’s socially acceptable in this society.
Honestly, I want to keep reading because I really do like the world, orc/human political plot, and sex scenes, but I don't know if I can read another story about an orc betraying a woman. My heart breaks for them every time.
Just like the first book, I'm finding this hard to rate. There are things I like about the story and things I strongly dislike.
What I liked:
The friends-to-lovers/second-chance romance was sweet. It was adorable that Ella and Natt were childhood friends. But it made the betrayal so much worse (to be discussed in the section below).
The writing was solid. The story did drag a bit in the middle, but it wasn't too bad.
I really LOVED the continued world-building and the politics! This book dived deeper into orc history, the differences between the five orc clans, orc morals, and life under Orc Mountain.
The sex scenes were definitely something. There was a lot more exhibitionism/voyeurism in this book - we see orc orgies as well as human/orc intercourse in public. I definitely wouldn't want to get railed by an orc, but I'll admit, these scenes are pretty hot.
What I didn’t like:
When it's mentioned during sexual encounters how the slit on the head of his dick 'kisses' her mouth or the inside of her vagina. I honestly don't know if I understood it accurately because there were a few times I thought Ella was like, making out with the slit, and it was kissing her back. lol
Past lover drama kills me. I genuinely hate this in every book, so if this doesn't bother you, just ignore this. I get that orcs screw each other because there's a lack of females, but I just find it f*cking weird that their lovers are their friends. I get this is a totally different world, but it's hard for me to wrap my brain around how this would ever work - detaching emotions from screwing friends.
The way Natt's childhood sexual assault was discussed. I'm uncomfortable with this topic in general, but I don't feel like the author went deep enough into his trauma. The SA is mentioned, and Natt talks a little about his feelings, but that's it. It just seemed brushed over. If something this traumatic is going to be brought up, I would have liked for Natt and Ella to have a deeper conversation about it.
Natt totally gaslit Ella, and that pissed me off. Natt makes Ella feel like a terrible person for how she continued to live her life after Natt disappeared the first time. Ella didn't know what had happened to him, and when he shows back up, he still isn't forthcoming about anything. So naturally, she carries on with her own assumptions, which are typically wrong, but how is she supposed to know that when Natt won't tell her a damn thing???? And then, she APOLOGIZES to Natt for being engaged to Alfred because she wanted safety and security as a woman in a man's world and for hurting Natt's feelings. And then, she puts him on a pedal stool and says how he's perfect, and brilliant, and deserves everything he's ever wanted. All while he's still lying to her, making her fall in love with him, only to betray her. Nah, bro, f*ck that.
The Betrayal. I can't. Even writing this now, I feel so much anger at Natt, and Grimmarr. That mother f*cker Grimmarr did this same sh*t to Jule, and now he is forcing Natt to do this to Ella???? All for a job??? And Natt agrees??? What the actual f*ck??? He literally used her while making her believe their relationship was real. And yeah, yeah, he says it is real, and he loves her, but how can you love someone knowing you're going to hurt them like that? Especially when you had been friends - best friends??? But then, of course, Ella understands why Natt did this, forgives him, and almost dies for him!! As if her life doesn't matter. F*ck this.
After the betrayal, we discover why Natt couldn't return to Ella for the last 10 years, which made me forgive him a little bit. But seriously, Finely Fenn needed to reveal this sh*t sooner, so I don't hate Natt throughout the entire book.
Natt and Ella end up watching Dammarr and Thrak f*ck as some sort of proof that maybe Dammarr has finally moved on from Natt. It was hot, but f*cking weird because the scene was introduced with talk of how Natt and Dammarr were lovers and how Dammarr was mean to Ella because he was jealous of her relationship with Natt. And again, Dammarr and Thrak are Natt's friends/bodyguards, so it was just weird.
During the epilogue, Ella is throwing a party at her estate and celebrating her pregnancy. However, none of the humans know she's married, and the baby is an orc-son. So somehow the humans are fine with her being pregnant (allegedly) out of wedlock, but she was supposed to be a virgin before marriage? I don't quite understand the morals or what’s socially acceptable in this society.
Honestly, I want to keep reading because I really do like the world, orc/human political plot, and sex scenes, but I don't know if I can read another story about an orc betraying a woman. My heart breaks for them every time.
March 26, 2021
2.5 stars. I'm kind of confused about how I feel about this book, but mostly I'm disappointed.
Starting with the things I liked: I liked that the orcs weren't just "muscley humans". They had their own distinct culture/morality/way of things separate from humans. Everyone's kind of messy, living in shades of gray, no one comes out of this morally pure or totally in the right, which I liked. Also tbh the last minute scenes between Dammarr and Thrak kind of just made me wish the whole book had been about them.
The things I didn't like: mostly I just hated how little agency and power Ella had. Generally in a lot of romance the heroine starts off in a bad place, slowly gains confidence/skills/whatever to come into her own and take control of her life. Except I was never convinced that happened. Ella started off forced to marry some asshole because of her father's will, and he wants to use her for his purposes. Then she gets caught up in Natt's whole situation, and she's beholden to him and he has his own agenda and she gets used for his purposes.
The only time Ella is ever described as having power/being in control/feeling empowered in a situation is when she's performing sex acts, which just...honestly left a bad taste in my mouth. Every other minute of the book she's uncertain and making dumb decisions and constantly looking to Natt for reassurance. As soon as she walks away from him or talks to someone else, he suddenly shows up again and monopolizes her time. You never get to know what Ella thinks or feels or wants outside of Natt.
Also, something that I truly hate that happens so much in romance is that the heroine is never allowed to be justifiably, righteously angry for longer than a couple pages. Ella's whole life is controlled, manipulated, and ruined by men and the one time she actually gets pissed she just - stops being pissed a few paragraphs later, then goes and has sex again and everything is just forgiven through the power of love. Not that I don't always want an HEA, but good grief, there should still be room to explore emotion without sweeping it under the rug to keep everyone happy.
The grovel also just did not work for me, in that there really wasn't one. Like, kind of at all. It felt like deja vu at multiple points in the book - Natt would lie about something, she'd catch him in the lie, he'd explain it while lying or omitting certain things, she'd forgive him, rinse and repeat over and over. At a certain point you should probably just take all your money and go live in your big-ass house by yourself and find some hobbies.
I dunno. I was really enjoying like the first half of the book, but everything started on a downward spiral and once characters and plotlines and the constant repetition of things started to annoy me I couldn't stop being annoyed by all of it.
Starting with the things I liked: I liked that the orcs weren't just "muscley humans". They had their own distinct culture/morality/way of things separate from humans. Everyone's kind of messy, living in shades of gray, no one comes out of this morally pure or totally in the right, which I liked. Also tbh the last minute scenes between Dammarr and Thrak kind of just made me wish the whole book had been about them.
The things I didn't like: mostly I just hated how little agency and power Ella had. Generally in a lot of romance the heroine starts off in a bad place, slowly gains confidence/skills/whatever to come into her own and take control of her life. Except I was never convinced that happened. Ella started off forced to marry some asshole because of her father's will, and he wants to use her for his purposes. Then she gets caught up in Natt's whole situation, and she's beholden to him and he has his own agenda and she gets used for his purposes.
The only time Ella is ever described as having power/being in control/feeling empowered in a situation is when she's performing sex acts, which just...honestly left a bad taste in my mouth. Every other minute of the book she's uncertain and making dumb decisions and constantly looking to Natt for reassurance. As soon as she walks away from him or talks to someone else, he suddenly shows up again and monopolizes her time. You never get to know what Ella thinks or feels or wants outside of Natt.
Also, something that I truly hate that happens so much in romance is that the heroine is never allowed to be justifiably, righteously angry for longer than a couple pages. Ella's whole life is controlled, manipulated, and ruined by men and the one time she actually gets pissed she just - stops being pissed a few paragraphs later, then goes and has sex again and everything is just forgiven through the power of love. Not that I don't always want an HEA, but good grief, there should still be room to explore emotion without sweeping it under the rug to keep everyone happy.
The grovel also just did not work for me, in that there really wasn't one. Like, kind of at all. It felt like deja vu at multiple points in the book - Natt would lie about something, she'd catch him in the lie, he'd explain it while lying or omitting certain things, she'd forgive him, rinse and repeat over and over. At a certain point you should probably just take all your money and go live in your big-ass house by yourself and find some hobbies.
I dunno. I was really enjoying like the first half of the book, but everything started on a downward spiral and once characters and plotlines and the constant repetition of things started to annoy me I couldn't stop being annoyed by all of it.
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June 23, 2022As I mentioned in my review for the first book, I think the Orc Sworn series would work best for readers who enjoy Old School romances. If you cut your teeth on The Flame and the Flower, Whitney, My Love, or Johanna Lindsey's books from the 70s and 80s, then these erotic monster romances might feel familiar. The only exception to that rule is any fan of R Lee Smith's books. If you've never read an Old School romance or don't know what I'm talking about, but you have read and enjoyed Heat, Cottonwood, The Last Hour of Gann, or Land of the Beautiful Dead, then these orcs might be a good fit for you.
My reaction to Old School romance, R. Lee Smith's books, and the Orc Sworn series is all the same: a haze of discomfort, middling levels of anxiety, and fiendish compulsive curiosity. My emotional brain says "No, stop!" while my detached Aquarius intellect asks "What other strange things can you bring me to feast on!?" and that internal struggle is fitting, since the human women in these books are twice as conflicted as I'll ever be.
Since the framework of these books remains consistent across all five books I read, I think it might be helpful to give you the very, very long lay of the land:
[Warning: structural or plot spoilers for the entire series]
Each of these novels begins with the introduction of a human woman who is stuck in a disempowering relationship with a human man: her spouse is abusive, her fiancé habitually cheats on her, or her father threatens to cut off her only source of independent income. In the first book, the orcs strike a tenuous peace treaty with the human civilization that surrounds them (vaguely medieval for historical vibes) after centuries of genocidal conflict. The orcs are all male, they only spawn more male orcs, and they must seduce human women to avoid extinction. War has prevented them from finding impregnable mates and their population has dwindled down to 1,000 orcs. All of the villains who torment our female main characters oppose the peace treaty and they're super, super into killing orcs. Eventually, through some combination of abduction and running away, these women end up meeting an orc.
Despite being told the orcs are blood-sucking, child-abandoning, gang rapists, these women are immediately and powerfully attracted to whichever orc they encounter first. Surprise, surprise: orcs give off powerful pheromones that keep a woman in sexual thralldom! All it takes is one woman sniffing the arousal of one orc and that orc sniffing the arousal of that one woman. Then boom, they're sharing a common scent and they "reek" of each other when any other orc gets a whiff. After this magical pair bonding occurs -- which the women are completely unaware of -- they travel to the home of the five orc clans, Orc Mountain. Once these women reach Orc Mountain, all hell breaks loose because...
1.) the sexual culture of the orcs is insatiable, exhibitionist & sexually fluid (both literally and metaphorically: the orc produce & "honor" copious amounts of semen and their sexual orientation isn't fixed), which the orcs would never ever deign to explain to their human partner, and...
2.) there is A LOT of social, religious, and interpersonal obligations attached to human-female/orc-male pair bonds, which again (!!!) the orcs never bother explaining beforehand.
Instead of teaching them about orc culture or guiding them through what will be expected of them, the orcs respond with anger, disapproval, frustration, & emotional withdrawal when the women become predictably squeamish or hesitant. And, since the pair bonded orcs are now the women's only source of food, clothing, navigation, & protection from other rapacious orcs, the female main characters have an unbelievably powerful motivation to submit to their orc's demands and minimize their understandable squeamishness or hesitancy.
And thus, the FMC embarks on a quest to win her orc's love, affection, & lasting commitment through his desire for constant sex, male progeny, & obedient submission. One step in this process involves the woman's realization that the orcs weren't the aggressors in the cross-species war, they were the victims of it: her orc was tortured by human hunters, or raped by his fellow orcs who didn't have access to willing female lovers, or lived through the abandonment of his former human mate and the termination of her pregnancy. However, the woman can give her orc comfort, by offering herself as the convenient receptacle for his rage and bereavement. Yes, that's right, the orc hero "takes it out on" the human heroine emotionally and sexually, even as she continues to accept and acquiesce to the cultural, religious, and/or interpersonal requirements of the pair bonding she never agreed to.
Simultaneously, the FMC suffers through the agony of confronting her worst fears around intimacy. If she's had to ignore an unfaithful human partner, the orc's former male lover will be paraded in front of her. If she longs for the permanence of a home and family, the orc will deny her the security and status due to his sworn mate. If she questions her own sanity, the orc will make passing complaints about her overwrought reactions. And, even as the heroine struggles through this miasma, she catches her orc lover in a web of deceptions, half-truths, and lies large and small.
The blackest of black moments finally arrives with her knowledge that her romantic relationship was secretly designed -- by the orc leadership and through the cooperation of her partner -- to serve as one piece of a much larger puzzle, meant to non-violently strike powerful human leaders who continue to endanger the orcs' new peace treaty. She was only chosen because of her proximity to the influential target: the orcs are really after her abusive husband, cheating fiancé, and/or narcissistic father. It's been a trap from the jump! She is collateral damage.
Worse still, the orcs have no intention of offering her sanctuary. Far from it! Their plans were always designed to end with her expulsion from the same community she's been tirelessly trying to join in good faith. She's forced to return to the abusive or invalidating man, with the added burden of having to negotiate a way for the orcs to remain safe. To put the cherry on the sundae, she's also pregnant with the orc son of her orc lover -- this underhanded scheme has turned her into the unwitting vessel of a vengeful cuckolding fantasy.
So, you might be wondering, when she's confronted with this final test, how does she respond?
1. ) BREAK UP SEX
and...
2.) AN ECSTATIC EMBRACE OF DEATH.
The heroine willingly returns and kills, threatens, or otherwise blackmails the human man who disempowered her in the past, somehow defeating the obstacle he represented to the orc community. She reunites with her orc mate and they go back to Orc Mountain.
La fin.
The Heiress and the Orc is where I saw this pattern begin to take shape and it left me reeling, honestly. The carnival-ride-in-hell qualities of The Lady and the Orc weren't the wacky wild pitches from the first book in a series, like I had assumed... they were, in fact, the intentional & recurring rules of the game being played here.
Whhhhhhhhhhhat is happening?!
wHaT iS tHiS?!
What is PLEASURABLE about this relationship?!
Of course, the sex is great! Getting plowed by an orc -- in a room full of horny orcs who wish they were the one doing the plowing -- sounds like a fun time. The Noah's Flood of semen is neither here nor there for me, but ejaculate that tastes like food is an improvement, I guess? Breeding kink is my old standard, since I'm a single goblin in my mid-thirties with chihuahuas instead of children. But, aside from all the hot hot hot sex, why would anyone want to go through the gauntlet of pain that comes with an orc lover?!?!
Why?!
WHY?!?!
wHy?!?!?!
In the next part of my multi-part series on the Orc Sworn series (yes yes yes, I'm having my Dan Carlin moment), theories start bubbling up and I find them via bonobos monkeys, hagiography, and Her Majesty the Queen, Angela Carter.
[Side note: I did not rate this book because I did not go into it in good faith. I picked it up thinking I probably wouldn't like it and, low and behold, I didn't. I LOVE thinking about this series but I also hate-read this one so I don't think it's fair to impact the rating here. No shade though, if you're into hate-reading books you know you won't enjoy and then rating them one star on Goodreads, do your thing. I salute your choices!]
My reaction to Old School romance, R. Lee Smith's books, and the Orc Sworn series is all the same: a haze of discomfort, middling levels of anxiety, and fiendish compulsive curiosity. My emotional brain says "No, stop!" while my detached Aquarius intellect asks "What other strange things can you bring me to feast on!?" and that internal struggle is fitting, since the human women in these books are twice as conflicted as I'll ever be.
Since the framework of these books remains consistent across all five books I read, I think it might be helpful to give you the very, very long lay of the land:
[Warning: structural or plot spoilers for the entire series]
Each of these novels begins with the introduction of a human woman who is stuck in a disempowering relationship with a human man: her spouse is abusive, her fiancé habitually cheats on her, or her father threatens to cut off her only source of independent income. In the first book, the orcs strike a tenuous peace treaty with the human civilization that surrounds them (vaguely medieval for historical vibes) after centuries of genocidal conflict. The orcs are all male, they only spawn more male orcs, and they must seduce human women to avoid extinction. War has prevented them from finding impregnable mates and their population has dwindled down to 1,000 orcs. All of the villains who torment our female main characters oppose the peace treaty and they're super, super into killing orcs. Eventually, through some combination of abduction and running away, these women end up meeting an orc.
Despite being told the orcs are blood-sucking, child-abandoning, gang rapists, these women are immediately and powerfully attracted to whichever orc they encounter first. Surprise, surprise: orcs give off powerful pheromones that keep a woman in sexual thralldom! All it takes is one woman sniffing the arousal of one orc and that orc sniffing the arousal of that one woman. Then boom, they're sharing a common scent and they "reek" of each other when any other orc gets a whiff. After this magical pair bonding occurs -- which the women are completely unaware of -- they travel to the home of the five orc clans, Orc Mountain. Once these women reach Orc Mountain, all hell breaks loose because...
1.) the sexual culture of the orcs is insatiable, exhibitionist & sexually fluid (both literally and metaphorically: the orc produce & "honor" copious amounts of semen and their sexual orientation isn't fixed), which the orcs would never ever deign to explain to their human partner, and...
2.) there is A LOT of social, religious, and interpersonal obligations attached to human-female/orc-male pair bonds, which again (!!!) the orcs never bother explaining beforehand.
Instead of teaching them about orc culture or guiding them through what will be expected of them, the orcs respond with anger, disapproval, frustration, & emotional withdrawal when the women become predictably squeamish or hesitant. And, since the pair bonded orcs are now the women's only source of food, clothing, navigation, & protection from other rapacious orcs, the female main characters have an unbelievably powerful motivation to submit to their orc's demands and minimize their understandable squeamishness or hesitancy.
And thus, the FMC embarks on a quest to win her orc's love, affection, & lasting commitment through his desire for constant sex, male progeny, & obedient submission. One step in this process involves the woman's realization that the orcs weren't the aggressors in the cross-species war, they were the victims of it: her orc was tortured by human hunters, or raped by his fellow orcs who didn't have access to willing female lovers, or lived through the abandonment of his former human mate and the termination of her pregnancy. However, the woman can give her orc comfort, by offering herself as the convenient receptacle for his rage and bereavement. Yes, that's right, the orc hero "takes it out on" the human heroine emotionally and sexually, even as she continues to accept and acquiesce to the cultural, religious, and/or interpersonal requirements of the pair bonding she never agreed to.
Simultaneously, the FMC suffers through the agony of confronting her worst fears around intimacy. If she's had to ignore an unfaithful human partner, the orc's former male lover will be paraded in front of her. If she longs for the permanence of a home and family, the orc will deny her the security and status due to his sworn mate. If she questions her own sanity, the orc will make passing complaints about her overwrought reactions. And, even as the heroine struggles through this miasma, she catches her orc lover in a web of deceptions, half-truths, and lies large and small.
The blackest of black moments finally arrives with her knowledge that her romantic relationship was secretly designed -- by the orc leadership and through the cooperation of her partner -- to serve as one piece of a much larger puzzle, meant to non-violently strike powerful human leaders who continue to endanger the orcs' new peace treaty. She was only chosen because of her proximity to the influential target: the orcs are really after her abusive husband, cheating fiancé, and/or narcissistic father. It's been a trap from the jump! She is collateral damage.
Worse still, the orcs have no intention of offering her sanctuary. Far from it! Their plans were always designed to end with her expulsion from the same community she's been tirelessly trying to join in good faith. She's forced to return to the abusive or invalidating man, with the added burden of having to negotiate a way for the orcs to remain safe. To put the cherry on the sundae, she's also pregnant with the orc son of her orc lover -- this underhanded scheme has turned her into the unwitting vessel of a vengeful cuckolding fantasy.
So, you might be wondering, when she's confronted with this final test, how does she respond?
1. ) BREAK UP SEX
and...
2.) AN ECSTATIC EMBRACE OF DEATH.
The heroine willingly returns and kills, threatens, or otherwise blackmails the human man who disempowered her in the past, somehow defeating the obstacle he represented to the orc community. She reunites with her orc mate and they go back to Orc Mountain.
La fin.
The Heiress and the Orc is where I saw this pattern begin to take shape and it left me reeling, honestly. The carnival-ride-in-hell qualities of The Lady and the Orc weren't the wacky wild pitches from the first book in a series, like I had assumed... they were, in fact, the intentional & recurring rules of the game being played here.
Whhhhhhhhhhhat is happening?!
wHaT iS tHiS?!
What is PLEASURABLE about this relationship?!
Of course, the sex is great! Getting plowed by an orc -- in a room full of horny orcs who wish they were the one doing the plowing -- sounds like a fun time. The Noah's Flood of semen is neither here nor there for me, but ejaculate that tastes like food is an improvement, I guess? Breeding kink is my old standard, since I'm a single goblin in my mid-thirties with chihuahuas instead of children. But, aside from all the hot hot hot sex, why would anyone want to go through the gauntlet of pain that comes with an orc lover?!?!
Why?!
WHY?!?!
wHy?!?!?!
In the next part of my multi-part series on the Orc Sworn series (yes yes yes, I'm having my Dan Carlin moment), theories start bubbling up and I find them via bonobos monkeys, hagiography, and Her Majesty the Queen, Angela Carter.
[Side note: I did not rate this book because I did not go into it in good faith. I picked it up thinking I probably wouldn't like it and, low and behold, I didn't. I LOVE thinking about this series but I also hate-read this one so I don't think it's fair to impact the rating here. No shade though, if you're into hate-reading books you know you won't enjoy and then rating them one star on Goodreads, do your thing. I salute your choices!]
October 19, 2021
This may have been the hardest book in the series for me to read/re-read… I forgot how dark it was until I was re-reading it! And it isn’t that entire book is dark, but a big part of who the hero is and why he and the heroine were apart for so many years is a very dark reason. (TW at the bottom)
This is a second chance romance between an orc and a human woman. They became friends as gangly teens and nearly a decade later he shows up and is like “Bella where the hell have you been loca"
But actually, she winds up coming back with him to Orc Mountain and… steaminess and political games ensue.
There were a lot of things about this book that made it not a fav. The overarching sadness of why they were separated, the fact that one of his entourage (basically one of his four closest friends/comrades) is also his fuck buddy who’s insanely jealous and torments the heroine… the dishonesty…
But once again, I’m blown away by the political intrigue of this book. Of the orc politics but also orcs v humans. Because while Natt and Ella were once best friends, he hasn’t seen her in nearly a decade and she’s engaged to another man who notoriously hunts orcs… so of course he doesn’t know if he can trust her. Especially when she doesn’t “speak truth” to him when they first meet back up.
Cute cute bonus epilogue though (get her newsletter to read them all!)
TWs: Natt was raped by ~50 orcs in his youth
This is a second chance romance between an orc and a human woman. They became friends as gangly teens and nearly a decade later he shows up and is like “Bella where the hell have you been loca"
But actually, she winds up coming back with him to Orc Mountain and… steaminess and political games ensue.
There were a lot of things about this book that made it not a fav. The overarching sadness of why they were separated, the fact that one of his entourage (basically one of his four closest friends/comrades) is also his fuck buddy who’s insanely jealous and torments the heroine… the dishonesty…
But once again, I’m blown away by the political intrigue of this book. Of the orc politics but also orcs v humans. Because while Natt and Ella were once best friends, he hasn’t seen her in nearly a decade and she’s engaged to another man who notoriously hunts orcs… so of course he doesn’t know if he can trust her. Especially when she doesn’t “speak truth” to him when they first meet back up.
Cute cute bonus epilogue though (get her newsletter to read them all!)
TWs: Natt was raped by ~50 orcs in his youth
April 28, 2021
2/5
Sadly, I didn't enjoy this nearly as much as the first book. In fact, I pretty much skimmed the ending after reading 70%. I didn't like either Ella nor Natt's characters, and usually I tend to find the female main characters more annoying but in this case, I really disliked Natt.
I'm disappointed because I actually am a huge sucker for the whole separation-unrequited-love-second-chance trope so this would've been my jam. But I didn't like Natt's attitude towards Ella at all and maybe Outlander ruined Scottish men for me but I cringed every time Natt said "ack" or "ken" which was pretty much every single time he opened his mouth. Natt seemed to be bipolar, is disrespectful of Ella lying to her over and over again, and I didn't feel any of the love and devotion that I felt reading Grimmar and Jule's story in Book 1. Both Ella and Natt seemed delusional and neither faced their issues or problems like mature adult characters.
The plot was also a tad too similar to Book 1 for me with Ella being given back to the humans same as Jules had, and the orcs running after them. I was a big fan of the 1st book but this was a disappointing miss for me.
Sadly, I didn't enjoy this nearly as much as the first book. In fact, I pretty much skimmed the ending after reading 70%. I didn't like either Ella nor Natt's characters, and usually I tend to find the female main characters more annoying but in this case, I really disliked Natt.
I'm disappointed because I actually am a huge sucker for the whole separation-unrequited-love-second-chance trope so this would've been my jam. But I didn't like Natt's attitude towards Ella at all and maybe Outlander ruined Scottish men for me but I cringed every time Natt said "ack" or "ken" which was pretty much every single time he opened his mouth. Natt seemed to be bipolar, is disrespectful of Ella lying to her over and over again, and I didn't feel any of the love and devotion that I felt reading Grimmar and Jule's story in Book 1. Both Ella and Natt seemed delusional and neither faced their issues or problems like mature adult characters.
The plot was also a tad too similar to Book 1 for me with Ella being given back to the humans same as Jules had, and the orcs running after them. I was a big fan of the 1st book but this was a disappointing miss for me.
July 14, 2020
Real rating: 4.5⭐︎
After taking this book from KU the day it came out and waiting for the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders to pass so I could have quality time with it....I've accepted this is not going to be a Thing and finally dug into this one. It was totally worth the wait.
It's time for more ladies-to-be, nasty lords, a tenuous truce, debauched orcs, breeding kink... and gallons of torrential orc spend.
If you enjoyed the first book, you'll enjoy this one—there's even substantial cameos by Jule and Stella, if you want to know what they're up to. Favorite secondary characters from the first book reappear here, and we're introduced to more colorful orcs, giving us a more clear picture of what it's like for the 5 orc clans to live together. There's a lot more rotten in the mountain than just relations with humans.
Farmer's daughter, Ella, grew up wild in the forests on her estate with an orc, Natt, for her best friend. They did everything together, including pledge to be together as adults. But one day, Natt disappears, and after 9 years, the only logical answer is that he's died. Shortly after his disappearance, Ella's father gives into her mother's wishes and starts the process of taming Ella and grooming her to be a refined lady—much to her chagrin and unhappiness—and she is tasked with keeping the estate in her family's possession via marriage. Ella's now 25 and engaged to a lord who is...eh. Nice enough, she supposes, but she's not terribly wild about it. Oh, and there's the whole catching him having sex with another woman at their engagement party thing. If there's one thing Ella knows how to do, it's run, so she takes off to a building on her estate to lament her fate and encounters the one thing she never expected to—Natt, and he's not at all how she remembers him. When did he get to be so...big?
As with the previous book, this one took my emotions and flung them around the room without mercy and body slammed them a few times before the end.
My heart hurt a lot towards the end there, as Ella is finally aware of what all has been going on and her use in it. Truth vs. Perception or Assumption is a real strong theme in this story. And it's one that always guarantees to be a kick in the teeth.
Ms. Fenn has a real talent for writing rounded and deplorable characters who you will still begrudgingly like at the end of the day, and she's one of the few authors who writes non-human main characters in boldly non-human ways; most other authors shy away and default having their monster men be total cream puffs who are a bit bossy. Orcs are not humans. They do not have the same morality as humans. They do not do anything the same way humans do. They are, frankly, real callous bastards a lot of the time. But like humans, there's a spectrum of attitudes and behaviors, and we get to see more variety through the background cast as they react to situations and interact with Ella. So. If you aren't picking up that Natt's going to be really hard to like. Yeah. You've been warned. But if you read the last book, he's slightly less awful than Grimarr—though that's a very low bar—but you can't help but root for him and hope things will turn out in the end.
She also writes rounded heroines with room to grow, then actually has them reflect and change as life throws massive amounts of orc shit at them—these orc boys come with so many customs, rules, and baggage. None of the orc mates are ladies I would want to get on the bad side of. They've all earned their places as strong, compassionate, and relatable female characters, all capable of saving themselves and doing Hard Things. Yes, Ella is avoidant and has a habit of literally bolting every time something overwhelming happens to her, but as far as the list goes of sins for female lead characters, this one was really low on my list. It takes time to change perspectives, and Ella's world view shifts a lot in 440 pages.
So. If you enjoy a really filthy read, have a breeding kink, enjoy non-human leads, and like non-TSTL heroines who aren't genre tropes...this one might be for you. Now, time to prepare myself for John's story.
After taking this book from KU the day it came out and waiting for the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders to pass so I could have quality time with it....I've accepted this is not going to be a Thing and finally dug into this one. It was totally worth the wait.
It's time for more ladies-to-be, nasty lords, a tenuous truce, debauched orcs, breeding kink... and gallons of torrential orc spend.
If you enjoyed the first book, you'll enjoy this one—there's even substantial cameos by Jule and Stella, if you want to know what they're up to. Favorite secondary characters from the first book reappear here, and we're introduced to more colorful orcs, giving us a more clear picture of what it's like for the 5 orc clans to live together. There's a lot more rotten in the mountain than just relations with humans.
Farmer's daughter, Ella, grew up wild in the forests on her estate with an orc, Natt, for her best friend. They did everything together, including pledge to be together as adults. But one day, Natt disappears, and after 9 years, the only logical answer is that he's died. Shortly after his disappearance, Ella's father gives into her mother's wishes and starts the process of taming Ella and grooming her to be a refined lady—much to her chagrin and unhappiness—and she is tasked with keeping the estate in her family's possession via marriage. Ella's now 25 and engaged to a lord who is...eh. Nice enough, she supposes, but she's not terribly wild about it. Oh, and there's the whole catching him having sex with another woman at their engagement party thing. If there's one thing Ella knows how to do, it's run, so she takes off to a building on her estate to lament her fate and encounters the one thing she never expected to—Natt, and he's not at all how she remembers him. When did he get to be so...big?
As with the previous book, this one took my emotions and flung them around the room without mercy and body slammed them a few times before the end.
My heart hurt a lot towards the end there, as Ella is finally aware of what all has been going on and her use in it. Truth vs. Perception or Assumption is a real strong theme in this story. And it's one that always guarantees to be a kick in the teeth.
Ms. Fenn has a real talent for writing rounded and deplorable characters who you will still begrudgingly like at the end of the day, and she's one of the few authors who writes non-human main characters in boldly non-human ways; most other authors shy away and default having their monster men be total cream puffs who are a bit bossy. Orcs are not humans. They do not have the same morality as humans. They do not do anything the same way humans do. They are, frankly, real callous bastards a lot of the time. But like humans, there's a spectrum of attitudes and behaviors, and we get to see more variety through the background cast as they react to situations and interact with Ella. So. If you aren't picking up that Natt's going to be really hard to like. Yeah. You've been warned. But if you read the last book, he's slightly less awful than Grimarr—though that's a very low bar—but you can't help but root for him and hope things will turn out in the end.
She also writes rounded heroines with room to grow, then actually has them reflect and change as life throws massive amounts of orc shit at them—these orc boys come with so many customs, rules, and baggage. None of the orc mates are ladies I would want to get on the bad side of. They've all earned their places as strong, compassionate, and relatable female characters, all capable of saving themselves and doing Hard Things. Yes, Ella is avoidant and has a habit of literally bolting every time something overwhelming happens to her, but as far as the list goes of sins for female lead characters, this one was really low on my list. It takes time to change perspectives, and Ella's world view shifts a lot in 440 pages.
So. If you enjoy a really filthy read, have a breeding kink, enjoy non-human leads, and like non-TSTL heroines who aren't genre tropes...this one might be for you. Now, time to prepare myself for John's story.
October 14, 2021
Was interested to see how this story would unfold, you don’t get too many Orc’s as leading men. Once I started however it soon became apparent that this story was going to be an angst fest. Small amounts of angst is fine but when the majority of the book is angst upon angst I quickly lose interest. I know some people enjoy that type of thing, myself not so much.
There is a lot in this story that doesn’t make sense. Ella is an unwed 25y/o in those days she would be considered a spinster or on the shelf and not someone that would command a top shelf gentleman. Till she was sixteen she was allowed to run wild with Natt without a chaperone. There is no mention about what her parents even thought about that, much less why they would allow a young marriageable female to spend time alone with a male that was not a relative much less an Orc.
For a lot of the book Ella comes across as shallow. Her biggest and only goal was to get married and become a “real lady”. All of her common sense seemed to have deserted her as she did not once question her soon to be husband about what his plans would be for her sizeable fortune.
For me this book dragged as we were subjected to Ella’s immaturity for quiet a bit, Natt’s whining about what he had to endure the 9 years he was apart from Ella. Plus lets not leave out the NUMEROUS mentions of his seed. It was either gushing down Ella’s thighs or she was guzzling it down like it was a milkshake or he was coating her in it. At one point I envisioned her on her knees in supplication while he just sprayed her with his member and covered her in his seed. These Orc’s are also lusty there is an orgy room it would seem where members of his clan would pleasure themselves. Warning there is male on male action, so if that is not your thing you may want to read another story. Natt for all of his double standards of Ella remaining pure for him, he was busy sharing himself with many different Orc’s. He did tell her thou that he never slept with another female only males so that makes it better?!? The other Orc’s have no problems saying whom they slept with and how many times or just going at it whenever the urge hit them. I have no problems with sexy times, just that it took up so much of the book I was hunting for the story in the midst of all the seed.
Not to say that there weren’t good things in the story. Both Ella and Natt showed major growth as the story progressed. Ella actually started thinking about what really made her happy. Natt was able to put aside his anger and resentment and take a very difficult high ground. A few things were mentioned that made me think that the story could have ended sooner as I had already surmised a way for everyone to gain their HEA and the war could be prevented.
For me this would have been a tighter faster paced story with less angst, less sex, and a stronger plotline.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
There is a lot in this story that doesn’t make sense. Ella is an unwed 25y/o in those days she would be considered a spinster or on the shelf and not someone that would command a top shelf gentleman. Till she was sixteen she was allowed to run wild with Natt without a chaperone. There is no mention about what her parents even thought about that, much less why they would allow a young marriageable female to spend time alone with a male that was not a relative much less an Orc.
For a lot of the book Ella comes across as shallow. Her biggest and only goal was to get married and become a “real lady”. All of her common sense seemed to have deserted her as she did not once question her soon to be husband about what his plans would be for her sizeable fortune.
For me this book dragged as we were subjected to Ella’s immaturity for quiet a bit, Natt’s whining about what he had to endure the 9 years he was apart from Ella. Plus lets not leave out the NUMEROUS mentions of his seed. It was either gushing down Ella’s thighs or she was guzzling it down like it was a milkshake or he was coating her in it. At one point I envisioned her on her knees in supplication while he just sprayed her with his member and covered her in his seed. These Orc’s are also lusty there is an orgy room it would seem where members of his clan would pleasure themselves. Warning there is male on male action, so if that is not your thing you may want to read another story. Natt for all of his double standards of Ella remaining pure for him, he was busy sharing himself with many different Orc’s. He did tell her thou that he never slept with another female only males so that makes it better?!? The other Orc’s have no problems saying whom they slept with and how many times or just going at it whenever the urge hit them. I have no problems with sexy times, just that it took up so much of the book I was hunting for the story in the midst of all the seed.
Not to say that there weren’t good things in the story. Both Ella and Natt showed major growth as the story progressed. Ella actually started thinking about what really made her happy. Natt was able to put aside his anger and resentment and take a very difficult high ground. A few things were mentioned that made me think that the story could have ended sooner as I had already surmised a way for everyone to gain their HEA and the war could be prevented.
For me this would have been a tighter faster paced story with less angst, less sex, and a stronger plotline.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
March 7, 2020
DNF. Disliked Ella.
August 18, 2024
Oj, nie. Po prostu nie.
Początek był mega obiecujący, ale od połowy zaczęłam się koszmarnie nudzić. Okłamał mnie. Zdradził mnie. Ale go kocham. Znowu mnie okłamał. I znowu mnie zdradził. Ale i tak go kocham. I znowu mnie okłamał, zdradził, ale i tak go kocham... I lecimy od nowa. Wymęczyła mnie ta książka jak nie wiem. Liczyłam na to, że motyw "friends to lovers" mnie kupi, bo go uwielbiam, ale z nich tacy przyjaciele, że ohoho. Najciekawsze rzeczy działy się na drugim planie, a w tak grubej książce to jednak trochę za mało, bym miała satysfakcję z czytania.
Nie wiem, może nie powinnam mieć żadnych oczekiwań względem takich książek i przez to, że się nakręciłam na super rozrywkę, to wyszło jak wyszło. A może wcale nie jest słabsza od pierwszej części, tylko tamta wzięła mnie z zaskoczenia, a tu już mamy odgrzewanego kotleta i to dlatego nie kliknęło, tak jak powinno? Mam nadzieję, że to tylko wypadek przy pracy i przy kolejnym tomie wrócimy na dobre tory. W końcu muszę dobić do piątego 😉
Początek był mega obiecujący, ale od połowy zaczęłam się koszmarnie nudzić. Okłamał mnie. Zdradził mnie. Ale go kocham. Znowu mnie okłamał. I znowu mnie zdradził. Ale i tak go kocham. I znowu mnie okłamał, zdradził, ale i tak go kocham... I lecimy od nowa. Wymęczyła mnie ta książka jak nie wiem. Liczyłam na to, że motyw "friends to lovers" mnie kupi, bo go uwielbiam, ale z nich tacy przyjaciele, że ohoho. Najciekawsze rzeczy działy się na drugim planie, a w tak grubej książce to jednak trochę za mało, bym miała satysfakcję z czytania.
Nie wiem, może nie powinnam mieć żadnych oczekiwań względem takich książek i przez to, że się nakręciłam na super rozrywkę, to wyszło jak wyszło. A może wcale nie jest słabsza od pierwszej części, tylko tamta wzięła mnie z zaskoczenia, a tu już mamy odgrzewanego kotleta i to dlatego nie kliknęło, tak jak powinno? Mam nadzieję, że to tylko wypadek przy pracy i przy kolejnym tomie wrócimy na dobre tory. W końcu muszę dobić do piątego 😉
October 11, 2023
This book took me forever To finish , like 5 months. I had to keep picking it back up because i knew i was promised some angst. It delivered the angst in the end unfortunately the groveling was NONEXISTENT.
Ellas manipulated . Literally her entire existence is just revolved around men and not once do i feel like she has any control of her actual choices. It just felt like watching a train wreck.
I believe their sexual chemistry was through the roof cuz if u let someone pierce your nipple with their earring your 🍆 has to be 🔥 amirite?
Anyways, the book was alright but i wasnt in love.
Ellas manipulated . Literally her entire existence is just revolved around men and not once do i feel like she has any control of her actual choices. It just felt like watching a train wreck.
I believe their sexual chemistry was through the roof cuz if u let someone pierce your nipple with their earring your 🍆 has to be 🔥 amirite?
Anyways, the book was alright but i wasnt in love.
October 24, 2021
This ended up being a less good copy of the first book. Natt’s reason for betrayal wasn’t even selfless, it was for his own career, so that felt even less forgivable than the first book. Also, this author really likes to repeat words three times, “run and run and run” or “again and again and again”, those types of things. It kept happening to the point that it became a little distracting. It was a well written book though. I still like this series, but am getting sick of the MMC being a betraying arsehole who does not grovel enough or deserve the heroine. The give and take amount is not even and it makes me uncomfortable. Why is Ella still doing everything for Natt (getting him promoted, etc.) in the face of his betrayal? Like, I get not ratting him out to the humans, but come on, that felt sooo gross her supporting him at every turn when he has actively put her in danger and aimed to ruin her life - all while sleeping with her.
Oh, also, weird homophobic thing at the end where Natt tells Ella that he only slept with other men while they were apart, not other women. Which is used as a way to say that he kind of didn’t cheat on her and just, ergh, no. Same sex relationships are not inferior to hetero relationships.
Oh, also, weird homophobic thing at the end where Natt tells Ella that he only slept with other men while they were apart, not other women. Which is used as a way to say that he kind of didn’t cheat on her and just, ergh, no. Same sex relationships are not inferior to hetero relationships.
October 26, 2022
Audio - 5 +++ STars
Story - 3.5 Stars
Story - 3.5 Stars
November 3, 2021
I totally LOVED this book! I had no idea what I was getting into when I started this book and read it as a buddy read... boy was this a succulent treat! I loved how we get the entire story through Ella's point of view, and are not privy to the scheming and planning the orcs and the human men are involved in. Natt is the orc you dream about- all alpha and dominating and then soft and cuddly when it comes to the bedroom. And the super sexy steamy scenes, they were just explosive- making this a perfect read. I rarely like historical SFR/PNR/dark erotica... I just cant mesh sexy times with Old English accents. But Finley Fenn does a fantabulous job incorporating the Old English with the filthy nasty sexy talk. I never knew that was a thing I could get into! Aside from all the angst and sizzling scenes, this was a bit of a brain twister trying to figure out who was doing what which kept me super intrigued and captivated. Oh that awful twist towards the end- it was heartbreaking and I swear I wanted to annihilate all the males, human and orcs. But dont fret- Ella and Natt get their HEA. I have no idea how but I am going to read this series and I might not come up for much else other than Fenn's orcs for a while 😁
November 23, 2022
I seriously do not understand how this keeps happening to me.
I have one rule. One. Just tinsy tiny standard in my tumultuous sea of monster smut. I cling to this principle as the pillar that differentiates up & down, black & white, right & stuff-that-turns-you-on. Without it, all of existence falls into chaos.
That rule is: anal is not a HEA.
I remember, when I first spoke of this rule, I thought I was joking. I was confident it wouldn’t apply frequently or maybe even ever again. Ha. Ha. Butt stuff. Yet, here I am, for the FIFTH time this year with an unbelievable PSA: anal does not belong in epilogues. Anal is fine. Anal can appear as desired EXCEPT as an HEA. I don’t know where this trend came from but, we, as a society, need to put a stop to it. I understand folks don’t want babies or weddings as the focus in epilogues. I get that. That’s fine. WE DO NOT HAVE TO REPLACE THESE THINGS WITH ANAL. There are other milestones, folks. Life events. Precious moments. Carefully cultivated scenes that showcase interpersonal wellbeing. There are so many other ways to show that characters have grown & settled. We don’t have to simply have them, at long last, stick a dick up their asshole. I will say, Heiress soothes the hurt of this though with the bonus epilogue which is an adorable ✨MASTERPIECE✨
Epilogue rant aside, these two are truly feral. I am in awe. The spice in here is like you’ve never seen before, in both good and bad ways. The blowjob at 23% is the craziest fucking thing I’ve ever read but it just kept ramping up. Brazen & bold— these two are frolicking in and around the mountain together whether you like it or not (believe me, I do like it). However, a hot take: I don’t think Ella is having enough orgasms. There. I said it. Natt is not ideal in every department and sex is no exception. He doesn’t prepare her body well enough for sex, regularly causes her sexual injury, AND doesn’t seem to prioritize her orgasm? Yikes from me bucko. Not very orc-y of you.
Every bad thing Grimmar said about Natt is true and, honestly, Natt’s grovel was not good enough. I don’t think he learned a damn thing. We’re all ‘oh, he’s her down to earth childhood best friend she’s forsaken for wealth’. SIKE! He’s actually a messy bitch who loves drama & blow jobs. He spends so much time admonishing her for shit he’s ACTIVELY doing. She grows, he doesn’t. Natt’s words to Ella, implied & aloud, are “I love you but, most importantly, fuck you”.
I am realizing this review is fairly gripe-y but I did enjoy Heiress. It’s angsty, the spice is unique, and the characters are consistent & well-developed. It’s clear the author knew these folks very well. You should read this! You will probably like it. It will put your eyebrows to work, certainly.
I have one rule. One. Just tinsy tiny standard in my tumultuous sea of monster smut. I cling to this principle as the pillar that differentiates up & down, black & white, right & stuff-that-turns-you-on. Without it, all of existence falls into chaos.
That rule is: anal is not a HEA.
I remember, when I first spoke of this rule, I thought I was joking. I was confident it wouldn’t apply frequently or maybe even ever again. Ha. Ha. Butt stuff. Yet, here I am, for the FIFTH time this year with an unbelievable PSA: anal does not belong in epilogues. Anal is fine. Anal can appear as desired EXCEPT as an HEA. I don’t know where this trend came from but, we, as a society, need to put a stop to it. I understand folks don’t want babies or weddings as the focus in epilogues. I get that. That’s fine. WE DO NOT HAVE TO REPLACE THESE THINGS WITH ANAL. There are other milestones, folks. Life events. Precious moments. Carefully cultivated scenes that showcase interpersonal wellbeing. There are so many other ways to show that characters have grown & settled. We don’t have to simply have them, at long last, stick a dick up their asshole. I will say, Heiress soothes the hurt of this though with the bonus epilogue which is an adorable ✨MASTERPIECE✨
Epilogue rant aside, these two are truly feral. I am in awe. The spice in here is like you’ve never seen before, in both good and bad ways. The blowjob at 23% is the craziest fucking thing I’ve ever read but it just kept ramping up. Brazen & bold— these two are frolicking in and around the mountain together whether you like it or not (believe me, I do like it). However, a hot take: I don’t think Ella is having enough orgasms. There. I said it. Natt is not ideal in every department and sex is no exception. He doesn’t prepare her body well enough for sex, regularly causes her sexual injury, AND doesn’t seem to prioritize her orgasm? Yikes from me bucko. Not very orc-y of you.
Every bad thing Grimmar said about Natt is true and, honestly, Natt’s grovel was not good enough. I don’t think he learned a damn thing. We’re all ‘oh, he’s her down to earth childhood best friend she’s forsaken for wealth’. SIKE! He’s actually a messy bitch who loves drama & blow jobs. He spends so much time admonishing her for shit he’s ACTIVELY doing. She grows, he doesn’t. Natt’s words to Ella, implied & aloud, are “I love you but, most importantly, fuck you”.
I am realizing this review is fairly gripe-y but I did enjoy Heiress. It’s angsty, the spice is unique, and the characters are consistent & well-developed. It’s clear the author knew these folks very well. You should read this! You will probably like it. It will put your eyebrows to work, certainly.
August 23, 2022
Again with the orc-pricks and buckets of seed and other decidedly unsexy descriptions. Again with the lies upon lies upon lies. Again with men and orcs using wealthy women against each other for personal and political gain. Again with the women who take way too long to find their voices.
Very spicy, but I find most of the scenes lacking. These orc dudes will lick a lass from asshole to vulva but don't spend any time on the clit. Orc-pricks in the butt without any foreplay/prep. I guess they're dripping with natural lube? I guess. The spice is fine if you let yourself get caught up in the orc magic and just go along for the ride.
So why 4 stars? I really enjoyed the storytelling. It's like a soap opera. It's ridiculous and dramatic and will have you screaming at the characters when they do or say something dumb. It's fun, and I'm here for it.
Very spicy, but I find most of the scenes lacking. These orc dudes will lick a lass from asshole to vulva but don't spend any time on the clit. Orc-pricks in the butt without any foreplay/prep. I guess they're dripping with natural lube? I guess. The spice is fine if you let yourself get caught up in the orc magic and just go along for the ride.
So why 4 stars? I really enjoyed the storytelling. It's like a soap opera. It's ridiculous and dramatic and will have you screaming at the characters when they do or say something dumb. It's fun, and I'm here for it.
November 1, 2021
It's good! Beyond my expectations!!
Just too many smut scenes!
Just too many smut scenes!
October 14, 2022
There was some extreme groveling in this book and I LOVED it. I’ll say it again: Reading groveling? Fantastic. Listening to groveling? Phenomenal.
Orcs be lying could be the secondary series title and I say that with all the love - these orcs are schemers, the lot of them. Finley is the best at making me love an Orc I should forever stay mad at !
Natt and Ella had such an interesting dynamic to begin with and I loved how they worked through all their issues - it was the sweetest happy ever after.
Shane once again did such an amazing job with the audiobook, after listening to his John in Heiress…The Librarian and the Orc audiobook cannot come soon enough !!
Orcs be lying could be the secondary series title and I say that with all the love - these orcs are schemers, the lot of them. Finley is the best at making me love an Orc I should forever stay mad at !
Natt and Ella had such an interesting dynamic to begin with and I loved how they worked through all their issues - it was the sweetest happy ever after.
Shane once again did such an amazing job with the audiobook, after listening to his John in Heiress…The Librarian and the Orc audiobook cannot come soon enough !!
June 6, 2022
Some second book syndrome with this one - I wasn’t too excited based on the blurb and unfortunately that continued for most of the book.
I don’t like Natt. I don’t feel that he deserves Ella or that he really made up for what he did and the end was too convenient and I don’t believe Ella was able to slip into life that simply again especially with how women rights are being portrayed in this fantasy.
Orc Mountain continues to be depraved and honestly when do these orcs work what with how much free time they have to get it on in hallways. Where I liked this element in book 1 here we are really adding to it and I’m not sure if it was needed or the author just trying to one up her last book.
Honestly I liked Dammarr the best and I felt like he and Ella should have gotten together and made Natt watch.
I feel like women in Orc Mountain are not treated much different then with men - take away the orc mate magic and it’s a rough life out there for a woman.
I’m think a feminist revolution needs to hit these orcs.
I don’t like Natt. I don’t feel that he deserves Ella or that he really made up for what he did and the end was too convenient and I don’t believe Ella was able to slip into life that simply again especially with how women rights are being portrayed in this fantasy.
Orc Mountain continues to be depraved and honestly when do these orcs work what with how much free time they have to get it on in hallways. Where I liked this element in book 1 here we are really adding to it and I’m not sure if it was needed or the author just trying to one up her last book.
Honestly I liked Dammarr the best and I felt like he and Ella should have gotten together and made Natt watch.
I feel like women in Orc Mountain are not treated much different then with men - take away the orc mate magic and it’s a rough life out there for a woman.
I’m think a feminist revolution needs to hit these orcs.
August 1, 2022
I found myself really wanting them to be together in the beginning, the whole estranged childhood friends to lovers bit. Maybe that’s why all of his betrayals seemed more unforgivable in the end? I couldn’t justify them staying together. With Jule, she was dishing out her fair share of xenophobia, betrayal, and straight up disrespect so when Jule basically was like “oh fine, we’re even” I didn’t like it too much but it made more sense. Ella really didn’t deserve half the shit she got from Nattfar ESPECIALLY the way he flaunted his ex in front of her. He tried to make it sound as meaningless as possible but things just got so weird so fast and Ella was made to feel like she just had to sit around and accept it.
June 23, 2022
I was not a fan. It was the same story as the first book but with a twist. In this book the two mains had known each other since they were teenagers. I just couldn't connect to either one of them. They both seemed naive, selfish, and ignorant to the situation of the tentative peace negotiated in the first book. I couldn't even enjoy the sexy times cause again I didn't really like the two mains so I mostly skimmed or skipped those parts. By the end I was just happy the story was over.
* Bad read, 1 star *
* Bad read, 1 star *
November 22, 2023
Outstanding! Super steamy, angsty plot/love story. The h is one of my all time favourite heroines. The Orcs are tricksy, and ultimately use and betray her. She understands their reasons and continues to show how her integrity by honoring the orcs, her lover and her family. Loved the angst, and cried so many tears for her.
May 4, 2021
I am loving this orc/monster romance series. The Heiress and the Orc is book 2 in the Orc Sworn series (available on kindle unlimited) and this one is a childhood friends-to-lovers, second chance type romance and it was sweet and angsty filled with lots of pining, betrayals, and heartaches. Ella grew up playing with Natt and as children they promised themselves to one another, things happened though and they spent years apart and now Ella dreams of being a Lady. The night of her engagement party goes terribly wrong and Ella is running away when she runs into the powerful arms of an orc...but not just any orc, it’s her childhood friend Natt.
I love the world the author has created with this series, the orcs are treated as less-than from the men in this world. The orc clans have taken to living in a mountain to protect themselves from the men of the world who’d rather fight and kill them, but they also want to be near the human women as that is who they mate with and create orc sons with. Pretty much all of the human society have the wrong impression about orcs and this series definitely has a theme of what’s the truth vs these human women’s assumptions of what orcs are about. I love all the inner politics at play with the different orc clans and leaders and even the men vs orcs. The side characters continue to be really interesting and you get to see characters from book 1 in here, as well as meet some new. Seeing the characters growth, both the women and the orcs is so interesting and if you can look beyond all the bodily fluids the orcs have going on 😅, then this series is really doing some interesting character and world exploration.
I love the world the author has created with this series, the orcs are treated as less-than from the men in this world. The orc clans have taken to living in a mountain to protect themselves from the men of the world who’d rather fight and kill them, but they also want to be near the human women as that is who they mate with and create orc sons with. Pretty much all of the human society have the wrong impression about orcs and this series definitely has a theme of what’s the truth vs these human women’s assumptions of what orcs are about. I love all the inner politics at play with the different orc clans and leaders and even the men vs orcs. The side characters continue to be really interesting and you get to see characters from book 1 in here, as well as meet some new. Seeing the characters growth, both the women and the orcs is so interesting and if you can look beyond all the bodily fluids the orcs have going on 😅, then this series is really doing some interesting character and world exploration.
March 30, 2025
I have a like/hate with this story. I fucking hated Natt when everything finally came out and was proud of Ella for not being a weak bitch after his lies and betrayal. Wasn’t a huge fan of somehow with one tiny act(which wasn’t even his idea) it was all erased and I can’t even say I don’t understand. Like I still remember his betrayal and it wasn’t okay or forgiven but it also wasn’t not okay?? There definitely should’ve been more grovel and I do wish we’d gotten more of her pregnancy instead of anal sex in the epilogue 🙄.
Natt and his grisk ways just weren’t my thing, all the jewelry and showing off literally everything was just very gaudy and really made him the same man as Alfred, the only difference being Natt/ella knew each other as children. And sorry not sorry Natt’s traumas didn’t excuse his treatment of Ella, cause it was bullshit. Especially after she’d told him her feelings and he didn’t stop lying.
Also for anyone else this may not fancy, there is a good amount of mm on and off page. Maybe I forgot, but I don’t remember it being in the first book let alone such a key focus as it was in this one. It felt like mm sex (regardless of who it was between) was the third main character in this story which I didn’t like.
Natt and his grisk ways just weren’t my thing, all the jewelry and showing off literally everything was just very gaudy and really made him the same man as Alfred, the only difference being Natt/ella knew each other as children. And sorry not sorry Natt’s traumas didn’t excuse his treatment of Ella, cause it was bullshit. Especially after she’d told him her feelings and he didn’t stop lying.
Also for anyone else this may not fancy, there is a good amount of mm on and off page. Maybe I forgot, but I don’t remember it being in the first book let alone such a key focus as it was in this one. It felt like mm sex (regardless of who it was between) was the third main character in this story which I didn’t like.
September 20, 2023
3.75 stars. I’m thankful I went into this series knowing it’s not all kindness and rainbows bc I can actually enjoy these books without being pissed off
June 21, 2022
Although this is just as well-written as the first, I just didn't like it as much. Maybe if I hadn't read the first book, I would have liked this more, but it really feels like The Lady and the Orc done again but this time with the MCs knowing each other beforehand.
And it is the fact that Natt and Ella knew each other, and cared for each other before, that makes this a less enjoyable read for me. Natt's betrayal hits different than Grimar's did because he professes to have loved Ella for most of his life, and his betrayal is just to gain a high position amongst the orcs. As she says, "You betrayed me for a PROMOTION". It's not as noble as Grimar's sacrifice for the good of his people in the first one.
I also really didn't like the inclusion of the drama with Dammarr. How horrible for Ella to have to deal with her lover's past lover being around all the time, and nothing is ever done about it, even when he taunts her about their past. It just made me feel awful for her and disappointed that Natt didn't do much to make it better. Just promises that he won't be with Dammarr again because now he has Ella.
I also hated that Natt never came back to see Ella before the start of this. He was chased away from his home nine years ago, but he had been back in Orc mountain since around the time Grimar took over. So if he loved Ella like he claimed and , why didn't he make the effort sooner? And his excuse for taking a lover when Ella remained faithful to her promise to him was total BS! My goodness does this guy piss me off.
I ended this feeling like Ella was just way too good for Natt, and he didn't do enough to deserve having her back.
And it is the fact that Natt and Ella knew each other, and cared for each other before, that makes this a less enjoyable read for me. Natt's betrayal hits different than Grimar's did because he professes to have loved Ella for most of his life, and his betrayal is just to gain a high position amongst the orcs. As she says, "You betrayed me for a PROMOTION". It's not as noble as Grimar's sacrifice for the good of his people in the first one.
I also really didn't like the inclusion of the drama with Dammarr. How horrible for Ella to have to deal with her lover's past lover being around all the time, and nothing is ever done about it, even when he taunts her about their past. It just made me feel awful for her and disappointed that Natt didn't do much to make it better. Just promises that he won't be with Dammarr again because now he has Ella.
I also hated that Natt never came back to see Ella before the start of this. He was chased away from his home nine years ago, but he had been back in Orc mountain since around the time Grimar took over. So if he loved Ella like he claimed and , why didn't he make the effort sooner? And his excuse for taking a lover when Ella remained faithful to her promise to him was total BS! My goodness does this guy piss me off.
I ended this feeling like Ella was just way too good for Natt, and he didn't do enough to deserve having her back.
March 25, 2020
I read,and 5 starred,the first book of this series,but i must say this book was not a satisfying sequel and the following are the points that *for ME* made it so:
Word repetition. By the end of this novel,i was so heartily SICK of the words Ella 2003 Natt 1667 orc 700 speak 340 marry 312 alfred 302 head 300 breath(e) 292 lass 270 truth 265 ach 180 grisk 166 black 160 and lady. Those 14 words alone comprised over SEVEN THOUSAND words of the book. Kiss,wet tongue,filthy, brother, friend, pain, pleasure,neck,smell,scent teeth,and betray(l) made up another ONE THOUSAND. So 8000 words of this book are only 24 words. And unlike "the cat in the hat" it is neither adorable,nor charming. What is DID accomplish was to make this book bloated,unneccessarily angsty and repetetive. Could have achieved the same,if not an even better,story in literally HALF the pages. The plot progressed at a snail's pace. Ella's obsession with being "a real lady" completly overshadowed most of the book,to the point where i wished her house would burn down. Natt and Ella were annoying characters-she with her aforementioned "lady" fixation,he came off as whiny,weak and kind of a hypocrite. An extra star for the cameos of jules,grimarr,kresst,efterar,baldr,john,stella and silfast,characters that were well developed in the first book,so i enjoyed seeing them again. But the titular couple could have died in a lake of fire and i wouldn't have cared at all. Just my thoughts. Feel free to read and develop your own opinion.
Word repetition. By the end of this novel,i was so heartily SICK of the words Ella 2003 Natt 1667 orc 700 speak 340 marry 312 alfred 302 head 300 breath(e) 292 lass 270 truth 265 ach 180 grisk 166 black 160 and lady. Those 14 words alone comprised over SEVEN THOUSAND words of the book. Kiss,wet tongue,filthy, brother, friend, pain, pleasure,neck,smell,scent teeth,and betray(l) made up another ONE THOUSAND. So 8000 words of this book are only 24 words. And unlike "the cat in the hat" it is neither adorable,nor charming. What is DID accomplish was to make this book bloated,unneccessarily angsty and repetetive. Could have achieved the same,if not an even better,story in literally HALF the pages. The plot progressed at a snail's pace. Ella's obsession with being "a real lady" completly overshadowed most of the book,to the point where i wished her house would burn down. Natt and Ella were annoying characters-she with her aforementioned "lady" fixation,he came off as whiny,weak and kind of a hypocrite. An extra star for the cameos of jules,grimarr,kresst,efterar,baldr,john,stella and silfast,characters that were well developed in the first book,so i enjoyed seeing them again. But the titular couple could have died in a lake of fire and i wouldn't have cared at all. Just my thoughts. Feel free to read and develop your own opinion.
May 2, 2023
There’s something addictive about these orcs. I don’t know why, because they’re full of red flags 🚩
Some of those in this book are:
🖤 betrayal
🖤 gas lighting
🖤 manipulation
🖤 lies
🖤 equivocation
Yeah, so why did I actually enjoy it? Because there is something really endearing about these lying, deceiving orcs and the females who love them.
Just a warning- there is a lot and I mean A LOT of jizz. You’ve been warned
Some of those in this book are:
🖤 betrayal
🖤 gas lighting
🖤 manipulation
🖤 lies
🖤 equivocation
Yeah, so why did I actually enjoy it? Because there is something really endearing about these lying, deceiving orcs and the females who love them.
Just a warning- there is a lot and I mean A LOT of jizz. You’ve been warned
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