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A review by rjordan19
The Orc Boss by Lark Green
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: Yes!
Perspective: First person from the heroine only
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: No but the last chapter jumps ahead a touch.
Should I read in order?
This is Green’s debut!
Basic plot:
Our heroine is ready to get over someone by getting under someone and joins a dating app
Give this a try if you want:
- ‘monster’ romance – this is a contemporary world filled with fae, elf, orcs, humans, goblins, demons
- Scottish orc hero, fae heroine
- heroine nurses hero back to health
- mistaken identity
- scarred hero
- heroine brushes and braids the hero’s hair
- well-endowed hero
- hero washes the heroine’s hair
- dirty talking hero
- hero buys her sexy underwear then later rips them off
- anxiety rep (heroine)
- delicious angst!
Ages:
- Heroine is 33, didn’t see hero mentioned
First lines:
Hey u up?
I always considered myself levelheaded, especially as I barreled towards my mid-thirties at increasing speed. I often found comfort in there being very few things left in this world that could send me into a tizzy.
Except for my ex-boyfriend.
My thoughts:
This book right here….is currently my top read of the year. Green has taken my orc virginity and I’m so glad it was her *sniff. She has immediately become an autobuy author for me and now I have to foam at the mouth until she releases another book since this was her full length debut! I was so in love with this book.
I really enjoyed the build up of sexual tension in this book. I think it was really well done and one of those things I am always chasing in romance. Make me want it. Give me feels. I want to feel that longing and have it so good when they finally come together. And I had it here and it’s one of the reasons I will treasure this book!
This is one of those stories that captured my heart pretty quickly. It was hilarious. Skye was endearing. Ansel was stunning. I was lost. I spent all my spare minutes trying to escape my children and family and read this novel.
Skye works in IT and is trying to recover from her last relationship. I really loved Skye. My heart broke for her as we worked through her issues and her need for love. I think her and Ansel are perfection together. I can see why people got so annoyed with Skye – she’s obsessed with her crappy ex-boyfriend, who, it’s clear to us is a total asshole. But, haven’t we all been fools for love? She comes from what seems like a somewhat neglectful family. Her mother spends all her time talking about other people and herself and doesn’t even ask about Skye. We know Skye has a sister but they don’t seem close. She has been with Carter for 8 years – almost a decade of her life! I feel for her and understand her insecurities. We know she deserves better OF COURSE and it was such a great point in the book when Skye realizes that too.
Ansel is just *swoon. He says the perfect things. He builds Skye up so well and I adored his fall for her. He could communicate better, sure, but I think overall it wasn’t too much held back. Coming from a place of trying to protect her it was understandable. I just adored him – he put her first and gave her as many orgasms as she needed. When I found out he knew she was unscrewing the window bars I love him. When I knew he was awake listening to her masturbate I loved him even more!
Cock/Hero Stats:
- Hero is an orc with long hair and white tusks
- cock is a darker green than his body, very large, but otherwise quite human
- 7 ft tall
Quotes/thoughts:
“Go on, lass. I’ll stay here. Just promise me you’ll stay on your side of the city. It’s much safer.”
I bit back a snarky comment about him sounding just like my eighty-year-old neighbor because, unlike my neighbor, he was big enough to squash me like a bug.
“Hurry, Before I change my mind and decide to keep you forever,” he added with a dark chuckle.
---
“Sweetling, please. You have to be careful or you’re going to hurt yourself,” Ansel spoke in such a soft voice as if he was coaxing a wild animal. I yanked my arms away as he reached for my wrists. But I had nowhere to go; he had me backed into a corner. I flailed for a few moments until he caught my arms.
---
He made a sound of displeasure that came from deep within his throat. “That’s what I was worried about,” he said under his breath. His expression hardened as he regarded me. “If you’re ever put in a position like that again, Skye, I need you to promise me you will never sacrifice yourself for me. Your life is more important than mine. You are worth saving, I am not. Never forget that.”
---
“Skye,” he said in a soft voice that brought a new batch of tears close to the surface. “Are you okay? How many times do I have to tell you that a man who can’t make you come is not worth crying over? Actually no man is worth crying over. We’re all assholes.”
---
“Come here,” he rasped, motioning for me to move closer to the end of the bed. “I am going to make you feel so good that not only will you forget the bastard’s name, but everything else wrong in your life.”
---
“That little pussy of yours had gotten you into a lot of trouble now, hasn’t it? Just think, if you had someone fucking you properly, you wouldn’t have wandered into the alley that night.”
“No one has ever fucked me properly,” I said.
He smirked. “Well, you’re in for a real treat. Because fucking properly is the only thing I’m good for.”
Content warnings:
- Mention of drug usage (black rock)
- Racism
- Scenes of the heroine recovering from a breakup where she feels unloved (and he continues to take advantage of her)
- Unsolicited dick pics
- Heroine is held and threatened with a gun/assaulted
- Heroine is taken by the hero (for her safety)
- Death (view spoiler)
- Torture
- Hero is a smoker
- Infidelity (view spoiler)
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex? (view spoiler)
7% - cock touches (interrupted)
29% - 🔥 kisses, breast play, fingering for her
36% - heroine masturbation (short)
45% - kiss
50% - 🔥 oral for her
62% - 🔥 oral and fingering for her
65% - 🔥 blow job in the shower
78% - 🔥 kiss that leads to sex under an overpass. Oral/fingering for her. Him holding her against a ledge/wall
87% - 🔥 her on top, then missionary
99% - playing with vibrators, missionary (It fades a bit to the end – you might count it)
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: Yes!
Perspective: First person from the heroine only
Cliffhanger: No
Epilogue: No but the last chapter jumps ahead a touch.
Should I read in order?
This is Green’s debut!
Basic plot:
Our heroine is ready to get over someone by getting under someone and joins a dating app
Give this a try if you want:
- ‘monster’ romance – this is a contemporary world filled with fae, elf, orcs, humans, goblins, demons
- Scottish orc hero, fae heroine
- heroine nurses hero back to health
- mistaken identity
- scarred hero
- heroine brushes and braids the hero’s hair
- well-endowed hero
- hero washes the heroine’s hair
- dirty talking hero
- hero buys her sexy underwear then later rips them off
- anxiety rep (heroine)
- delicious angst!
Ages:
- Heroine is 33, didn’t see hero mentioned
First lines:
Hey u up?
I always considered myself levelheaded, especially as I barreled towards my mid-thirties at increasing speed. I often found comfort in there being very few things left in this world that could send me into a tizzy.
Except for my ex-boyfriend.
My thoughts:
This book right here….is currently my top read of the year. Green has taken my orc virginity and I’m so glad it was her *sniff. She has immediately become an autobuy author for me and now I have to foam at the mouth until she releases another book since this was her full length debut! I was so in love with this book.
I really enjoyed the build up of sexual tension in this book. I think it was really well done and one of those things I am always chasing in romance. Make me want it. Give me feels. I want to feel that longing and have it so good when they finally come together. And I had it here and it’s one of the reasons I will treasure this book!
This is one of those stories that captured my heart pretty quickly. It was hilarious. Skye was endearing. Ansel was stunning. I was lost. I spent all my spare minutes trying to escape my children and family and read this novel.
Skye works in IT and is trying to recover from her last relationship. I really loved Skye. My heart broke for her as we worked through her issues and her need for love. I think her and Ansel are perfection together.
Ansel is just *swoon. He says the perfect things. He builds Skye up so well and I adored his fall for her.
Cock/Hero Stats:
- Hero is an orc with long hair and white tusks
- cock is a darker green than his body, very large, but otherwise quite human
- 7 ft tall
Quotes/thoughts:
“Go on, lass. I’ll stay here. Just promise me you’ll stay on your side of the city. It’s much safer.”
I bit back a snarky comment about him sounding just like my eighty-year-old neighbor because, unlike my neighbor, he was big enough to squash me like a bug.
“Hurry, Before I change my mind and decide to keep you forever,” he added with a dark chuckle.
---
“Sweetling, please. You have to be careful or you’re going to hurt yourself,” Ansel spoke in such a soft voice as if he was coaxing a wild animal. I yanked my arms away as he reached for my wrists. But I had nowhere to go; he had me backed into a corner. I flailed for a few moments until he caught my arms.
---
He made a sound of displeasure that came from deep within his throat. “That’s what I was worried about,” he said under his breath. His expression hardened as he regarded me. “If you’re ever put in a position like that again, Skye, I need you to promise me you will never sacrifice yourself for me. Your life is more important than mine. You are worth saving, I am not. Never forget that.”
---
“Skye,” he said in a soft voice that brought a new batch of tears close to the surface. “Are you okay? How many times do I have to tell you that a man who can’t make you come is not worth crying over? Actually no man is worth crying over. We’re all assholes.”
---
“Come here,” he rasped, motioning for me to move closer to the end of the bed. “I am going to make you feel so good that not only will you forget the bastard’s name, but everything else wrong in your life.”
---
“That little pussy of yours had gotten you into a lot of trouble now, hasn’t it? Just think, if you had someone fucking you properly, you wouldn’t have wandered into the alley that night.”
“No one has ever fucked me properly,” I said.
He smirked. “Well, you’re in for a real treat. Because fucking properly is the only thing I’m good for.”
Content warnings:
- Mention of drug usage (black rock)
- Racism
- Scenes of the heroine recovering from a breakup where she feels unloved (and he continues to take advantage of her)
- Unsolicited dick pics
- Heroine is held and threatened with a gun/assaulted
- Heroine is taken by the hero (for her safety)
- Death (view spoiler)
- Torture
- Hero is a smoker
- Infidelity (view spoiler)
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
Safe sex? (view spoiler)
7% - cock touches (interrupted)
29% - 🔥 kisses, breast play, fingering for her
36% - heroine masturbation (short)
45% - kiss
50% - 🔥 oral for her
62% - 🔥 oral and fingering for her
65% - 🔥 blow job in the shower
78% - 🔥 kiss that leads to sex under an overpass. Oral/fingering for her. Him holding her against a ledge/wall
87% - 🔥 her on top, then missionary
99% - playing with vibrators, missionary (It fades a bit to the end – you might count it)