⭐️ overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📚 plot intensity: 📚📚
🔥 burn: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
💋 spice: 💋💋💋💋
🍬 sweetness: 🍬🍬
🩵 the feels: 🩵
🤣 humour: 🤣🤣🤣
🩸 gore/violence: 🩸🩸
🍆 peen uniqueness: 🍆🍆🍆🍆
👤 POV: 3rd person — single POV
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If you’re looking for a short novella that’s filled with some bird shifter monster romance, then ‘Crow’ is the perfect book for you! I haven’t read many bird shifter books so I loved that I found this one and enjoyed it as much as I did.
It’s a great read to devour in a few hours and it had a surprisingly wholesome little story wrapped up with some scorchingly spicy scenes. I really liked Crow’s relationship with Jaga and the banter and humour that went along with it (and I could honestly read a whole book with their shenanigans!! haha) and Crow and Veronica’s relationship was so sweet and had this fairytale-esque atmosphere to it that I thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing beats the trope of having a cursed MMC that’s “saved” by his love and fated mate.
And the spice was hot, detailed and sweet—even in the throes of passion as Crow is just a caring cinnamonroll of a MMC and only lives to make her feel treasured. There is lots of exploration and a heavy dose of oviposition to top things off (with some interesting unique qualities to both Crow’s anatomy and oviposition method). Oh! And everything tastes of blueberries…
And I have to say that I actually chuckled out loud while reading the epilogue! Haha I won’t spoil it, but I don’t think you’ll ever see eggs the same again!
The themes in this book are fairly light and it’s more focused on the spice over the plot, but there are a few things I will mention below that could potentially be triggers for some people. Though nothing is overly explicitly written or depicted on page (except for the spice, of course!)
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⚔️TRIGGER LIST⚔️
— Explicit sex scenes
— Depictions of painful transformations
— Mentions of domestic violence
— Violence
— Brief mentions of blood
— Brief mention of children (epilogue)
— Light impact play (spanking)
— Sex with MMC in his monster form (half man/half crow)
— Oviposition (egg laying)
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‘Crow’ was a spicy, touching and surprisingly sweet monster romance novella that is perfect for a quick and enjoyable read. If you enjoy your romance with all the; touch her you die vibes, a fairytale-esque romance (cursed MMC & his beauty of a “fated mate”), a feisty cinnamonroll MMC, oviposition, funny banter, soft feathers with unique monster peen anatomy and love the taste of blueberries, then I would highly recommend this book. 5/5 stars!!