Rating: 4.75🌈
Gigi Rivers has written a really beautiful fantasy romance that weaves into the relationship between an adopted Pixie Cas and a cast off, painfully maligned Orc, Graal, so many emotional themes.
Abandonment, emotionally and physically, adolescent and adult trauma due to racism or rather speciesism, found families and acceptance in every aspect of their lives. This is a highly complex, often emotional story with wonderful moments and some very sexy scenes.
Cas was adopted into the family of hearth and kitchen witches that this series is focused upon, and his retelling of that moment is both heartfelt and magical. That scene has so many layers to it. It’s funny, poignant, heartwarming, and beautiful. And exactly why I love this book.
Rivers’ characters have been vividly defined, by their well crafted personalities and by their backgrounds that support their own actions and responses to the events around them. To say more is to go into the details that might remove those magical moments that connect with us and make us feel so deeply drawn into their lives and developing love story.
I just love this couple, this series and Gigi Rivers is on my auto list. Highly recommended.
Don’t forget to check out the Author’s Notes for the exact reading order for the stories listed below (not that I knew about this to begin with). I should have done that and have been working on it now.
Another great cover.
AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS
A Werewolf Mate for Christmas
The Orc Who Hated Christmas
The Loneliest Dragon at Christmas The Last Gargoyle’s Christmas Wish
AN MM MONSTER CHRISTMAS SIDE STORY
Me and My Christmas Familiar
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The Orc Who Hated Christmas (An MM Monster Christmas Book 1)
Blurb
A grumpy orc who hates Christmas. A Christmas-obsessed pixie. Can these opposites find love together?
Graal is an orc who hates Christmas. Every year, he spends the day alone in his crappy rented room, haunted by memories of a family who never loved him. He just wishes Christmas and everyone who celebrates it would leave him alone.
Cas is a pixie who loves Christmas. He dresses up in sparkly outfits, calls himself the Christmas pixie, and spreads holiday cheer and pixie dust in the bakery where he works. But this year, his partner cheated on him and then left him. Still, Cas won’t let a broken heart ruin his favourite time of the year.
When Graal steps into Cas’s bakery, Cas is determined that the grumpy orc will enjoy the holiday. Graal is reluctant, but it’s hard to resist the pixie’s charms. As Cas shows Graal the magic of the season, something lingers in the air between them. And it isn’t just pixie dust.
But can a pretty Christmas pixie really love a grumpy orc? And can Cas open his heart again so soon after being betrayed? Or will Graal celebrate another Christmas alone?
The Orc Who Hated Christmas is a cosy fantasy romance with plenty of spice. It features grumpy/sunshine, hates Christmas/loves Christmas, hurt/comfort, fling to more, size difference, an orc who doesn’t believe his worth, a pixie keen to show him it, and a guaranteed HEA. Whilst this book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.
- Publication date: November 1, 2024
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 