Don’t start a war. Don’t get your trainees killed. And most importantly, don’t date them.
Hunting monsters for coin was enough for me, until the King begged me to tame the wildest beast of a guild with no humans.
Catgirls run the damn place. The bunny alchemist’s afraid of her students. And a wolfgirl thigh-choked me in the woods.
These girls are strong, absurdly hot, and have no intention of taking orders from a human, especially one who looks their age. But thanks to powers I don’t fully understand, I’m not as young as I seem. I’ve got a decade of experience under my belt.
If I want to turn this pack of wild women from far off lands into a proper human guild—and avoid sparking a war with their realm—I’ll need every trick I’ve got. Even the ones that blur the line.
They break the rules, so I'll break them in. Fair trade.
But when the wolfgirl plays rough and the tigergirl purrs in my ear, I'll start to wonder, who’s really taming who?
This book was just ok. It had decent editing, but the plot wasn't that strong. And by all that I can tell, the antagonist for this book will still be the antagonist in the next one. I'd give this book 2 stars, but it is a first time author, so they get a bonus star for effort.
The MC is a hunter of sorts. In the prologue, his king assigns him to take over the beastkin guild that provides both the hunting results as well as taking out tough monsters. Once the story starts, the first woman he meets becomes his first lover and harem member. Once he arrives at the hunters guild, he's sent on a brutal quest by the acting guildmaster, who thinks he's a trainee. They win against all odds because the MC is OP for a human, and return to take over the guild. The acting guildmaster is kicked from the guild as part of this, turning into the antagonist that just won't go away.
The lone harem member is a spunky wolf woman that's built more like the current trend goblin girl in haremlit. Short and curves for weeks, not days. At one point, she crawls on all fours and her breasts rub the ground, that's how huge they are. She's obsessed with the MC to the point that she's calling him "master" before they even have sex. There are others that will likely join the harem, and except for his ex-girlfriend that works there, he's putting zero effort to getting them. They are serving themselves up like an all-you-can-eat buffet for him to take. I really don't like zero effort harems.
I honestly don't think I'll read a second book in this series.
The MC is kind of a dick. He prides himself on never having cheated on a girlfriend. He just breaks up with them when he gets bored of sleeping with the same woman and finds another beautiful woman to sleep with. There are other places in the story where he comes off pretty condescending toward the women, too, and a few anti-lesbian lines that didn't sit well with me.
One of the women calls herself "his hole" at one point, and he tells her she means more to him than that, but it feels like that's all they are to the author. The women are pretty flat characters and there's not a lot of meaningful interaction where they get to know each other. They just throw themselves at the MC and are constantly interrupted, which is overdone.
I read the author's "Arcade Girls" and really liked it, so I was surprised at how thrown-together this felt. It could really use a good editor, and the phrase "death by snu snu" is used way too much.
Uggg guy admits he's a hoe girl throws herself at guy. Guy fights it annoying 😑 its a harem book come on and yulk you just had to throw in the ex-girlfriend why i hate it when x's are in the harem because 9 times out of 10 they cock block the story make the mc not choose more girls because they act stupid or he has feelings for the ex and it makes the mc feel guilty for liking others and are annoying 😑 i hope this doesn't happen because it will totally ruin the whole series omg the mc is hilarious he says some off the wall stuff wow I laughed so hard 🤣 the spice scenes had me laughing wth 🤦♀️ those are not supposed to be funny but it worked it weird though because he sounds like an old man from another century he's only 30 but acts and talks like he's super old I liked the idea of a guild but could of cared less about the school stuff boring 😴 the story kind of sucks to be honest the hilarity between the owl girl the mc and Kayla make the book and the rest is just blah
So, it's a porn with animal girls. The setup is fine, the writing tolerable, but the relationships and situations facile. There's a couple attempts at 4rth wall breaking humor and they fail, and the amount of sexy time is on the lower end. With so much time wasted on the MC's obsessing on pointless things I don't think anyone reading this will be satisfied with it.
The book would have benefited from being focused on what is going on and world building rather than what the MC is thinking, as he's shallow and crazy. I lost count of the number of times the fact that he's 30 years old but only looks 20 was mentioned, and somehow we're supposed to think it's a big deal. Or how, despite being 30 and surrounded by exclusively monster girls, that it might be possible to be in a relationship with more than 1 at a time.
This was incredibly enjoyable, and it was elevated for me by the audio performance. I'd listened to some books with Jude Erin and Rhys David before and they were really, really good in this. It actually made me go through their back catalogue to find my next read. Jude in particular gives the wacky monster-girls in this such great personality with the performance. Each one has a distinct voice with such a great character to them, it's really a standout audio for me.
The story itself was fun. It's nothing too deep, but that's not what I came for. It's a straight-forward adventure romp with a lot of goofy, fun plot contrivances. Don't take it too seriously and it's a great ride.
This has a lot of established haremlit tropes and decent writing, but the plot was weaksauce/not present at all. The chemistry sucks, the MC is just a horndog that wants to sleep with as many different women as possible. The ending was also dumb, kings can go to territory of another king and demand appointments to be replaced with a whim...
DNF. Some fun writing. Neat world and characters. Narrative felt disjointed. Might have become a harem, eventually, but too many promiscuous bisexuals for my taste.
Great start to a hopefully greater story! Like the setting and characters and I am interested in where the series will go. Hope it’s a good 3-5+ books long. Looking forward to the next one!
A very well written and edited beginning to what looks to be a just as interesting new series!! Good character development, enjoyable world building, soft tie ins to portal magic and an interesting antagonist!!!