Abby Dixon is a burned-out baker with a dead industrial mixer, a depressed sourdough starter, a nonexistent love life, and a highly inconvenient crush on her tall, broody, emotionally unavailable boss.
When a mysterious crate arrives at her bakery with a waiver warning of bonding, awakening, and dimensional irregularities.
Abby doesn’t read the fine print and signs it anyway. Because she needs the mixer.
And also because she has an engagement cake to finish, bills to pay, and apparently zero survival instincts when commercial kitchen equipment is involved.
What she gets is Mischen: a possessive, sentient spirit, nonhuman man, who can take a very distracting tentacled form and seems intensely committed to proving he was made to satisfy her every need.
At first, it looks like one wildly inappropriate wish gone sideways. Then Abby discovers their bond isn’t just physical. Her impulsive plea for help has awakened a hidden magical sanctuary and a role Abby absolutely did not apply for.
Apparently, she is the Keystone.
And Mischen is only the first supernatural lover waiting on the other side. What follows is a spicy fantasy romantic comedy filled with enchanted appliances, magical bonds, bakery chaos, found family, and one increasingly complicated love life.
Her life is about to get hotter, stranger, and a lot harder to explain during the morning rush.
Welcome to Sweet Rise Bakery, where enchanted kitchen appliances become possessive monster men, magical bonds refuse to follow health codes, and one baker discovers that a why-choose relationship requires considerably more counter space.
Creamed by My Monster Stand Mixer launches the Sweet Rise Bakery series, an absurd and spicy sentient-object romance for readers who like their fantasy funny, their monsters possessive, and their kitchen equipment alarmingly attentive.
Featuring:
Sentient object / monster romance Accidental magic and wish-gone-wrong chaos A slowly expanding enchanted harem, with a new bond each book A possessive supernatural lover Grumpy boss slow-burn arc Found family and chaotic bakery workplace friendships Light mythology mystery that deepens across the series Explicit open-door spice Consent-forward, enthusiastic dynamics Warm. Explicit. Slightly unhinged. Unexpectedly tender.
A spicy monster-romance series featuring nonhuman heroes, absurd fantasy comedy, found family, magical mysteries, and a love life no ordinary warranty could possibly cover.
At no point did I know where this was going. Why was he German? Why were there tentacles? Where did this fever dream of a book come from? Ultimately not for me, but don’t let that stop you. 🤷🏻♀️
Look at this point there's no saving me. I've gone down the monster romance rabbit hole.
I was however, pleasantly surprised at how well written this is for monster romance smut. There's backstory, there's lore. There's also a fair few plot holes, but I could overlook this because I actually found myself really rooting for Abby and the weird love story she has going on with the mysterious landlord and her, er , German hand mixer (I get where the German thing was coming from with all the pastries, but it still felt like an odd choice). This felt like a light-hearted Needful Things in many respects, and I kind of (?) am ok with it. It was fun.
When I picked up this book I thought it was going to be another silly read like most sentient object romances, but it ended up being so much more. I laughed. I cried. I felt for the FMC. At the end I just wanted to drive right into book two to learn WTH was happening. I also loved that there was a recipe for croissants at the end. This book had me hooked and I hope anyone reading this review has a great time like I did
I will loudly announce this book ABSOLUTELY hit the spot for me. It sounds like a bit of a wacky premise, but there are LAYERS here. Sex-ay monsters. Mythology. Worldbuilding of the best kind. In other words, I picked this up for a sentient stand mixer finding some romance and ended up going all in on Abby, her monster-man, and whatever is in store for them next. (I've already read book 2 and Eeeeeeeeee. YES! ABBY HAS IT GOING ON!)
So. Abby loves what she does, but she's also skating the line on being overwhelmed while running a bakery that is...it's not struggling exactly, but it is a small business and it's one major appliance failure away from going in the red. So when her mixer fails just before a big order is coming up, Abby sends a wish out into the universe.
And something answers that wish.
Her new mixer is gorgeous, shiny, and speaks with a German accent. Mischen is also terribly lonely and Abby sparks all kinds of things in him he didn't think he'd ever experience again.
On Abby's end, she's pretty accepting of her new stand mixer getting a little frisky with her. Because why not? She's not in any sort of relationship (despite that almost-kiss with her boss) and Mischen is very giving. Very.Giving. Soon the two are bonding, she's getting borderline-menacing visits from the Council (who are so mysterious it's terrifying), and Abby might just realize she's far more than she ever believed she was.
In other words, this series is firmly in the realm of OHHHHH YEAH BRING IT ON!
wtf? Why did I love this book so gd much! It was hilarious. The inner dialogues were some of my favorite parts like when the lady wanted a refund on a cinnamon roll that she consumed 96% of, and Howard the Duck and of course Edgar Allen Dough …. I hope the next one is just as good.
You had me at tentacle intimacy. Started ironically, stayed for the surprisingly compelling mythology, finished it emotionally invested in a sentient appliance.
I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did! Abby is delightful. We get it girl and we are so glad you are getting it too. IYKYK. But it’s the mystery that is truly keeping my attention. Exceptional storytelling!
The spelling mistakes and missing words in this book 🤯 The constant talk about Edgar the sour dough starter, Zane who we actually know nothing about, and the constant trails off in the book that are not needed. DNF!
Overuse of the word AND. You have been warned before you read this 💀🙈
I can't believe I'm saying this but this almost feels like it has a bit to much plot...im used to sentient object books being short hilarious and to the point...still very interested to see where the author is going with this
I legitimately started reading this because it looked like the most ridiculous thing I could ever read. But the plot is actually more than decent, the writing is absolutely excellent, and I loved reading it. I'm excited for the next books!
I went looking for one thing and somehow got emotionally whisked into oblivion by a MONSTER STAND MIXER.
Yes. A mixer. With tentacles. I saw that and said “add to cart immediately, no further questions, your honour.”
From page one this book grabbed me by the frontal lobe and said “we’re doing chaos now” and I simply never recovered.
We’ve got: • sentient-but-not-sentient vibes • shifter-but-not-really-shifter energy • ley lines humming in the background like a demonic KitchenAid soundtrack • lore that is SO detailed and yet somehow I still feel like I know nothing and everything at the same time
And then there’s Abby. Sweet, adaptable, go-with-the-flow Abby who looks at this… eldritch countertop entity with MULTIPLE APPENDAGES and goes:
“yeah alright, this is my life now.”
Ma’am???? The emotional flexibility??? Olympic level.
Every chapter felt like spinning the “what fresh nonsense is this” wheel and landing on something even more unhinged than before. I was not reading this book. This book was happening TO me.
And just when I thought we were done being feral about it… BAM.
End of book: Lore bomb dropped New package introduced (??? HELLO???) My reverse harem loving heart sat up like it heard a dinner bell
AND THEN. A CLIFFHANGER.
You KNOW how I feel about cliffhangers. I was pacing. I was staring into the void. The void was holding a whisk attachment.
Will I read the next one?
Unfortunately yes. I need answers. I need chaos. I need to know what that appliance is planning next.
Found this book on tiktok and it became such a joke with friends that I had to read it. It’s for the bit. Moving on.
In a normal non-monster romantasy, this magic system and lore would hit so hard. Like I’m angry that it is the romance it is because I want to read this but not like this.
My first and only monster romance. The bit is now finished. Also I do not like tentacles in my romance. Let’s all forget you saw this review on your Goodreads homepage.
Spelling mistakes throughout, missing words randomly, INSANE overuse of the word ‘and’. Zero understanding of why he’s German, FMC lusting after some other character who we actually know nothing about, constant flash backs that add zero to the story. Was expecting a book full of spice, instead I now know how to prepare a sourdough starter and make croissants
This book was so much more than I expected it to be. Yes it was unhinged shifter smut, but it has a compelling plot with mystery and a whole world unfolding full of magical rules and beaurocracies. I did not expect to NEED to keep reading to the next book, but I was HOOKED, pun intended.
3 🌶️ 3 stars 🌟 I mean come on , this is what i expected and also not what i expected all at once , i had a few laughs and definitely a few tingles over a stand mixer 🤣 read at your own risk of wanting to buy a stand mixer xoxo
Gave me vibes. Not in a good way, in the way your heart sinks like a stone in your ribcage when the radiator clanks again in the shabby apartment you share with your ex, Marcus. IYKYK
This book has absolutely no business getting this many stars based on the title and cover art but it has more plot than you’d think. It’s a quick funny read with a little weird spice.
I will start by saying that this book has A Content Warning page.
My question is... why?
Everything in this book suggests that we will have some debatable smut involving a kitchen appliance that might or might not be a monster shifter. I think all of us knew what we were getting into before we got this book and opened the first page.
Because if any of you are going to tell me that you came all the way here, saw the cover, saw the title, saw the synopsis, saw the reviews, and had any other expectations than the very obvious ones, then
No sentient creature would ever think that this is a recipe book.
None.
If you did, you have brought shame and dishonor to your race and brain cells.
However, we do get a freebie: a croissant recipe, so there's that.