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A review by archivesofjina
On the Care and Keeping of Orcs by Kass O'Shire
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
As many of you know I absolutely adored the first book in this series, A Polar Expedition: and Other Stimulating Research Opportunities. Whew, I love a long winded title for book, they make me giggle. When I found out Kass was looking for permanent peeps for her arc team I applied so fast and thank you SO much Kass for letting be apart of your team. Also, thank you so much for your understanding and patience. It took me a bit to read this book because my kids occupy so much of my time.
With that being said I read 50% of this book in one night because I decided to stay up late and now I’m done and queue me kicking my legs and smiling. This series is a gaslamp monster romance story about Cat (the MMC from the first books sister) and Torsten. He’s the brother’s best friend, and sort of the one who got away. She fell in love with him at a young age and feelings weren’t necessarily reciprocated, I suppose this romance is also a second chance romance in a way.
One of my favorite things about the first book, and this book is the world building, and the footnotes. I just really love the added world building/background that is provided to the reader about a scene or maybe a situation or maybe a certain word or Country even, etc. Even though the story is first and foremost a romance, I really appreciate the time the author takes to build a rich environment to fall in love with.
Cat is a single mom to twins and is such an incredible woman. She’s strong, resourceful, and loves with her whole chest but because of her past with her twins father and some issues with her parents, she doesn’t seem to see the value in herself. So there’s a lot of growth you see with her throughout the book. Torsten is loyal through and through and absolutely adores Cat. The minute he sees her again, he knows he has to have her and will do anything to keep her. The story had the perfect amount of angst without driving you insane. Then the spice comes into the picture and it’s steaming hot.
I don’t really want to spoil any of the story for any of you who may be interested in reading this book which why wouldn’t you be? But I will leave you with some of my favorite tropes that are in this book.
-Only one Cave
-Only one Horse
-Brothers best friend
-Childhood crush
-Forced Proximity
-Single Parent
-Friends to Lovers
-Top tier dirty talk
-Hare Shifter
-Orcs, knots and copious amounts of fluids.
-Sex Positive
-Trans rep
PS: I can’t wait for Aegir’s story.
With that being said I read 50% of this book in one night because I decided to stay up late and now I’m done and queue me kicking my legs and smiling. This series is a gaslamp monster romance story about Cat (the MMC from the first books sister) and Torsten. He’s the brother’s best friend, and sort of the one who got away. She fell in love with him at a young age and feelings weren’t necessarily reciprocated, I suppose this romance is also a second chance romance in a way.
One of my favorite things about the first book, and this book is the world building, and the footnotes. I just really love the added world building/background that is provided to the reader about a scene or maybe a situation or maybe a certain word or Country even, etc. Even though the story is first and foremost a romance, I really appreciate the time the author takes to build a rich environment to fall in love with.
Cat is a single mom to twins and is such an incredible woman. She’s strong, resourceful, and loves with her whole chest but because of her past with her twins father and some issues with her parents, she doesn’t seem to see the value in herself. So there’s a lot of growth you see with her throughout the book. Torsten is loyal through and through and absolutely adores Cat. The minute he sees her again, he knows he has to have her and will do anything to keep her. The story had the perfect amount of angst without driving you insane. Then the spice comes into the picture and it’s steaming hot.
I don’t really want to spoil any of the story for any of you who may be interested in reading this book which why wouldn’t you be? But I will leave you with some of my favorite tropes that are in this book.
-Only one Cave
-Only one Horse
-Brothers best friend
-Childhood crush
-Forced Proximity
-Single Parent
-Friends to Lovers
-Top tier dirty talk
-Hare Shifter
-Orcs, knots and copious amounts of fluids.
-Sex Positive
-Trans rep
PS: I can’t wait for Aegir’s story.