Where to begin...okay so, my relationship with Urban fantasy has been tenuous at best. I can barely stand to watch it let alone read it. Still, I'm on a mission to read a little bit of almost every genre by 2025. Which is how I found myself falling fast for the Fantasy Romance subgenre as a strictly non-romancey reader who would much rather toss all those books in "Twoflower's" Luggage to disappear into another dimension and call it a day. BUT, who knew I just needed hot Elves and demons to fall in love and get their happily-ever-after to warm my cold dead heart.

So... that's how we got here, to this book about an ogre and a girl. Having recently read "Ogres - Terrible Worlds Revolutions" (Adrian Tchaikovsky) my perception of the monstrosities has altered. In the same vein as the Ogres book - I'm pretty sure humans are the ogres of the universe.

The long and the short of it is this - let my ogre dude Gregor find love yall.  Just let him find some happiness. As for the girl, what'serface forgettable redhead ... yeah her long-winded inner-monologues bordered on torture.

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RATING BREAKDOWN:

Storygraph Challenge: 1800 Books 3 years
Challenge Prompt: 150 Romance books
General Plot: +2 Escape Cult, Find Ogre, Take Down Cult, HEA.
Characters:+1 Gregor seems solid and likeable
Grammar: -1 sometimes the author forgot she was using 1st person and randomly starts using 3rd person midway in a conversation or inner dialogue.  Very whiplashy.
Overall Flow: -1 Highly cringe-inducing dialogue at times. Some heavy second hand embarrassment. Also; enough with the "My female, this female female female female" we get it you're uncultured and isolated Gregor. Do better.
Quotes: Lean mean ogre machine" and "Mogre" and "Every Girl should have an ogre of her own"  almost had me dnf-ing this book.  Crazy Scene: Arya fleeing through the woods a second time as naked as the day she was born had me loling and horrified equally.