The big green Orc living next door to me is so very mysterious.
He works from home and rarely goes outside. And when he does go out, he never wears a shirt buttoned over his massive chest, no matter the weather. Small children and senior citizens run screaming when he stomps to his truck, so I guess I understand his reticence?
But today is Valentine’s Day and I’m worried the big guy is sad and lonely. My neighbor is more angry-looking and growly than usual, despite that darling puppy he recently adopted.
And since I happen to be alone this Valentine’s Day too, I decide to bring him a plate of my famous sugar cookies.
Everyone warns me not to disturb him because Orcs always claim their Brides in the dark of winter.
But for some reason, this doesn’t worry me at all.
"Cookies For My Orc Neighbor" is a sweet and steamy monster romance that is part of theSweet Monster Treatscollection. Each book is a standalone, containing its own Happily Ever After, and they can be read in any order. Be sure to explore the other titles in the collection: --> "Candy For My Orc Boss" by Ava Ross --> "Cupcakes For My Orc Enemy" by Honey Phillips
Michele Mills lives in California and leads a life of quiet, G rated desperation with her husband and two sons. In an attempt at a fulfilling, R rated inner life that does not include Disney movies and Nickelodeon; Michele reads and writes filthy romance and, well...filthy romance. And she wouldn’t have it any other way.
I’m going to go ahead and put this on my ‘should not exist’ shelf because this book absolutely should not exist.
This is the worst bit of writing I have seen in a long while. You can tell this author received a lot of participation trophies growing up because only someone with a crazy amount of overconfidence would press publish on this piece of garbage. Add to that, this had a really creepy tone and the white saviorism and traditional wife/woman/caregiver vibes were off the charts.
It felt like a first draft that hasn’t been edited at all. there were soo many grammatical mistakes that they just pulled me out of the story. and that was really sad cause i was really excited about the premise. i also didn’t liked that the mmc was referred to as ‘the orc’ or ‘the man’ even towards the end of the book, and the dog Pepper was referred to as ‘the dog, that dog’ even by the owner, aka our mmc. and that made the story feel cold and distant. I loved that our heroine was strong and powerful tho and she really carried this story on her back fr. the cute cover is also a plus.
This book has the cutest hero I've ever read about!! Alden is an Orc who's been ostracized from society. His next door neighbor, Grace, has a big crush on him and is always trying to get his attention. She finally does... with a plate full of cookies.
"Six months ago, I moved in next door to this grumpy Orc with muscles for days and abs that won’t quit. Soon afterwards my preoccupation for all things Alden began."
This has dual virgins which I LOVED. Alden had never even been kissed before he got with Grace. This was a really cute, sweet novella. Perfect for Valentine's Day!
DISCLAIMER: first of all I read this as a JOKE so don’t come for me. Besides that this book might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever read because 1st of all it takes place in 3 days and I hate Insta love so. Also Alden and Grace are both weird stalkers. Im officially Orc-phobic now so. Anyways probably don’t read this.
The most unbelievable part of this book was Grace getting a promotion at her job as soon as she returned from maternity leave. Also, fully convinced that this was written by ChatGPT.
Love the premise, but the writing was so bad. The language was awkwardly formal and stilted. The whole thing moved too quickly and there was no buildup to make the relationship even slightly believable.
3⭐️ I was so excited for this little novella, and it was just kinda…mid. The storyline was cute but the writing was a little bit weird and rushed at times (even for a novella). The spice was also minimal.
First of all- who is rating this five stars?!? All of the cheesiness aside, the writing is terrible. It reads like something AI wrote after being fed nothing but Hallmark movies and orc lore. The only reason I finished it was because it was short and so bad it was stupidly funny.
The dialogue in this book is nearly unbearable. I’m including the characters internal monologue in that as well. What I’m saying is the whole book is nearly unbearable. People don’t talk like this. It made me wonder if the author has ever heard a human conversation. There is way too much exposition in almost every statement. No one should explain every step of their thought process leading up to a simple decision like eating beef stew.
I hated every character. They’re all toxic. FMC is a stalker and a pick me/borderline toxic trad wife. MMC is a stalker. FMCs best friend has zero respect for her friends boundaries. The other male character who creates the worlds weakest love triangle is also a stalker who has no regard for social norms. You don’t text someone, then immediately call them, show up to their job when they don’t answer either, and then show up to their house when they blow you off at their workplace. Straight to jail.
You never need two epilogues for different time jumps. Just write all the details into one. The first one is going to be a pointless stepping stone. Readers can figure out what happened earlier if you have one well written epilogue for a further time in the future.
So I had a nice funny review I made a mistake and deleted. This was an extremely cute start to a series. I just downloaded book 2.
Solid, 3.5 star ⭐️ read I deducted a half point because I have recently become obsessed with orc mating and this had no knotting. But the on page sex was very sweet and passionate so that was a plus.
This read very ‘young’. As in the author is young and hasn’t lived long enough or this is their debut and hasn’t found their writing style yet. It was almost a step-by-step ‘what is your favourite trope’ chain of events.
But at least I finished it, which is more than I can say of other stories that are better written but I’m very bored while reading it.
Well I guess if you’re going to have a crazy stalker type FMC you might as well stick them with a possessive orc, right? This book was not nearly as spicy as I thought it would be. It was a cute story about acceptance for who you are and really baby hungry people. And orcs that have a long history of stealing human women and are now “modernized”.
Spice: 1 and 1/3 scenes (sad right???)
Triggers: mention of parental abandonment, stalking
I was in the mood for ridiculous, sappy, sweetness. It pretty much hit that mark.
Sadly, it needed another couple runs through an editor. It’s not well written, there are a good amount of typos, grammatical errors, and repetitiveness.
The cutest little Valentine monster novella. All in all, a cozy read with little angst. A romance that results to the building of a family (🧟♂️+👩💼=👨👩👦👦) with the plot lacking nothing when compared to full novels.
this made me physically cringe while i was reading it, what in the actual fuck is wrong with you? not sure why you had to make the dude really predatory and rapey, but youre weird for that shit