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The Orc's Rage

Lyonne Riley

3.91 AVERAGE

itsbelleslibrary's review against another edition

5.0

(5 ⭐️)

— dark romance
— soft only for her
— orc x human
— pregnancy

silverfoxhole's review against another edition

3.25

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

every time i go into a book that people say are spicy, i realize that fanfiction has ruined that metric for me. this one, however, was filthy (positive).

mind the trigger warnings though.

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cr88's review

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

leerwjess's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

cassielynne's review

2.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lady_sadie_reads's review

2.5

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

booknerd626's review against another edition

3.5

dark hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

missymay0919's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dark, gritty, and surprisingly tender.

A dark and emotional monster romance? Say less—I’m in. The Orc’s Rage delivers on the captor/captive trope while walking that line, and it does it well. It’s intense, gripping, and super easy to devour in one sitting. Not your traditional love story by any means, but it still managed to leave a mark.

joss_04's review

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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dangerlee's review

3.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I found this book to be quite a bit darker than the Trollkin Lovers series by the same author. Cedar is captured by the Orc leader, Kargorr, and at first he sees her as a means to an end but he starts to appreciate her good qualities, and he "loves" her - in his own way. There are two main issues that ended up making this a three star, rather than a four or higher. First, it was too long, I think the same story could have been told with less pages. Second, Kargorr's main reason for killing all the humans was basically blood lust. He did want land so all the Orc tribes could come together as one people, under one ruler, him, but he seemed to want to just kill humans for the sake of it. So, on one hand, he wants an army of Orc/Human halflings because the halflings tend to get the best of both peoples, but how is he going to get that if he kills all the humans? And then, he ends up liking and respecting Cedar, but I guess she's "not like other humans"? He never thinks of humans as anything more than fodder to be killed. Occasionally human women are captured, but never any children, that means the children are all being killed, it is never explicit, but it is assumed. I dunno, the bloodlust thing just made the Orcs seem simplistic, when they were just like any other conquering people, leaving death and destruction in their wake for the sake of their own political ends without any empathy or compassion for those lives they destroyed.

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