This had a lot of the things I’ve been enjoying from this (very fun) series:
✨ an “oh no this can’t be happening” fated mates situation
✨ human-orc size difference,
✨ overcoming prejudices in a society where humans and orcs are supposed to hate each other

And it also had a ‘she’s his boss, and wants to be called sir 😉’ element that was just delightful.

But this wasn’t a five star read for me (like the other books in this series have been) for totally personal, not the book’s fault reasons. Because it was missing two things that were in the other books that I (completely irrationally) expected here: a language barrier (she was already fluent in his language this time) and an anti-war message.

And rather than the anti-war theme I’d been hoping for, we got two police officer MCs who were just as corrupt as they were overworked. And idk, I’ve been in too much of an ACAB mindset to be into stories about cops torturing and extrajudicially killing property crime suspects, you know?

Still having fun with this series though so I’m optimistic about the next one!