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A review by magnafeana
Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta
3.0
I have been converter. MGMF for life. 4.5 “Heck yes minotaur c*cks* stars
This book was widely passed around in paranormal romance circles, but most of the time, I had no been given more off of the glowing “You should read MGMF” statements or something to that effect.
So when I took the plunge today, I was admittedly nervous since I was advised to not read the summary and just live in the moment.
Thank you, Internet friends, for such blessed advice.
MGMF is about human millennial Violet (h) struggling to pay off her debt in this supernatural world. Growing up around humans only, working at Morning Glory Farm is a lot for her to be comfortable with—especially with the line of work she’ll be doing. But she meets divorcée Rourke (H), a wealthy minotaur with deep brown eyes, a deep voices, and a penchant for getting her hot and bothered.
As Violet navigates the paranormal world, she learns what it means to be a tech at Morning Glory and what it means to be in a mixed species relationship with the minotaur of her dreams.
This certainly was a hot read, and I 100% love that Violet isn’t one of those gun-shy, virginal heroines. She is a well-educated woman in a tough spot many of us are in: we get all the degrees we want, but the job we need isn’t there.
I like this book still empowered sex work and non-sex work. In reality, sex workers do have their own unspoken labels for clients too. The culture is honestly fascinating (and horrifying for those exploited by IRL sex work).
I like that Rourke and Violet went slow to build up to spicy times, especially considering their—ahem—different sizes. And thankfully, this story doesn’t go with the whole “and then they had kids” little HEA. I’m childfree and I finally got the paranormal romance ending I deserve!
All in all, what a great way to start my morning!
A bit of a bummer we don’t see anything from Rourke’s point of view. I would have loved to see more on his thoughts of Violet, which is why I knocked down a star. I wish Good Reads allowed as to submit half stars too.
4.5 ⭐️s all in all!
07/10/2022 Re-review of my review after literary discussion.
Soooo I do still love MGMF. But the internal monologue between the dialogue and the inconsistency in tenses and time gives me pause on a reread and a literary discussion.
I realized how confusing the set up of the story was. Between two things of dialogue are pages of internal monologuing and back story.
I think the story could have benefited from clearer showing over telling and a lot more time keeping to help the dialogue flow better and allow help with readability.
And while Rourke’s left out POV does allow us to really dive into Violet and Violet does a great job interpreting Rourke, I still stand by my statement that an epilogue in Rourke’s POV would be nice.
3.75 ⭐️s rounded down.
This book was widely passed around in paranormal romance circles, but most of the time, I had no been given more off of the glowing “You should read MGMF” statements or something to that effect.
So when I took the plunge today, I was admittedly nervous since I was advised to not read the summary and just live in the moment.
Thank you, Internet friends, for such blessed advice.
MGMF is about human millennial Violet (h) struggling to pay off her debt in this supernatural world. Growing up around humans only, working at Morning Glory Farm is a lot for her to be comfortable with—especially with the line of work she’ll be doing. But she meets divorcée Rourke (H), a wealthy minotaur with deep brown eyes, a deep voices, and a penchant for getting her hot and bothered.
As Violet navigates the paranormal world, she learns what it means to be a tech at Morning Glory and what it means to be in a mixed species relationship with the minotaur of her dreams.
This certainly was a hot read, and I 100% love that Violet isn’t one of those gun-shy, virginal heroines. She is a well-educated woman in a tough spot many of us are in: we get all the degrees we want, but the job we need isn’t there.
I like this book still empowered sex work and non-sex work. In reality, sex workers do have their own unspoken labels for clients too. The culture is honestly fascinating (and horrifying for those exploited by IRL sex work).
I like that Rourke and Violet went slow to build up to spicy times, especially considering their—ahem—different sizes. And thankfully, this story doesn’t go with the whole “and then they had kids” little HEA. I’m childfree and I finally got the paranormal romance ending I deserve!
All in all, what a great way to start my morning!
A bit of a bummer we don’t see anything from Rourke’s point of view. I would have loved to see more on his thoughts of Violet, which is why I knocked down a star. I wish Good Reads allowed as to submit half stars too.
4.5 ⭐️s all in all!
07/10/2022 Re-review of my review after literary discussion.
Soooo I do still love MGMF. But the internal monologue between the dialogue and the inconsistency in tenses and time gives me pause on a reread and a literary discussion.
I realized how confusing the set up of the story was. Between two things of dialogue are pages of internal monologuing and back story.
I think the story could have benefited from clearer showing over telling and a lot more time keeping to help the dialogue flow better and allow help with readability.
And while Rourke’s left out POV does allow us to really dive into Violet and Violet does a great job interpreting Rourke, I still stand by my statement that an epilogue in Rourke’s POV would be nice.
3.75 ⭐️s rounded down.