Look, I figured that if I'm going to read monster porn, then sooner or later I was going to have to do it: I was going to have to read the minotaur jizz book that everybody's been talking about. Which meant really getting out of my comfort zone and venturing into the strange world of... Heterosexual Romance.

I have to say, I had fun reading Morning Glory Milking Farm. I already knew that I liked the world it's set in, thanks to my beloved Two for Tea, and the setting was half of why I read this.

The other half was morbid curiosity. I wanted to know how it worked! And C.M. Nascosta really likes showing you how it works. There are plenty of details about how things work in this book. The details are measurable in fluid ounces and in size comparisons to oranges. At the end of the reading experience, you cannot say that you were not told how things work.

But how was the romance? It didn't do much for me, personally, because men, neither in human nor minotaur form, are my thing. (Nonbinary shapeshifting shadow people who run tea shops? Whole 'nother story.) However, Rourke is not a bad romance hero. He does this chivalrous, gentlemanly thing that I understand quite a lot of people enjoy, but he does it while respecting Violet's agency and letting her dictate how quickly their relationship progresses. He's really concerned about getting to know her as a person and not rushing anything, and he takes an interest in her life and career in a way that didn't strike me as controlling or condescending. Genuinely better than some human man characters I've read!

And I really like Violet. She is the typical millennial who went to grad school because that's how you get a good job, only to discover that getting a good job is impossible and sometimes, if you want to afford your apartment and occasionally buy name-brand orange juice or have a decent cup of coffee, you have to take a gig you never really saw yourself doing. Like jerking off minotaurs. It happens to the best of us.

So all in all, I'm not sad that I read this. It was a fun (albeit very sticky) time, and I will be reading more Cambric Creek books to learn all about how other types of monster genitalia work. The next one has a mothman!