Carlos Fegurgur

Great start to a shonen series. Strong, engaging character dynamic with a ton of mystery to be resolved later. Cool premise. Immediate action. Teen hero. Revenge quest? Magic katanas?!! What more could you want

I haven't read much manga but these are depressingly short...regardless it was full of action and while nigh incomprehensible at times I tore through this volume like the Chainsaw devil tears through his foes.

Post reze arc, mostly setting up the next arc to follow and introducing the new villains.

Now one of, if not my number one, favorite series. These books just do it for me and #6 felt like a culmination of a lot of different elements that showed flashes of greatness throughout previous books, now coming together over the course of a single story. The possibilities are endless and the formula with the level a book works. There are plots within plots and stories within stories. Some of the dialogue is cheesy and the way things shake out can feel very obvious or hand-wavy at times. But ultimately this is a fun, smart ride with likeable main characters and a unique and interesting world that keeps building upon itself in a way that I just can't get enough of.

Explicit Quote
Circumcising this would have been a crime, she thought, sliding the loose skin back until his full head popped free, like an especially delicious mushroom sprouting from the earth, beckoning her tongue to lick away the pearlescent moisture at its winking slit.

On the merits of storytelling alone this book would be maybe pushing a 1.5. Recognizing that this is entirely a smut book, but not just any smut book, an inter-species? “Monster Bait”...?? smut book has me thinking if this is your jam then it'll be a decent read so for that I'll go so far as to rate this a 2.

As unserious as I found this book to be, I decided to give it a fair shake (pun intended), considering it was a gift. I was left mostly confused having read it as I was before starting it. It's easy to get through for the most part, but you have to be in a certain.... mood.

The angle of it being interspecies and that being a huge schtick was so underplayed and disappointing that it would not change the book in the slightest had they just both been human from the jump. I also could absolutely not buy in to a relationship or the “sexual tension” that built up over the course of this book when it began with you giving a handjob to the person you fall in love with??

The writing at times felt like the author just discovered you can use adjectives for the first time and decided that no sentence was complete until it contained 5 of them in a row, each one synonymous with wet or huge. I have exceeded my quota of reading the words “winking slit” for my lifetime.

There was a single portion of this book I found to be enjoyable when all the elements of storytelling, tension, romance, and smut lined up perfectly...much like how our minotaur lined up his....

All that being said, seeing as I have no other smut experience to compare this to (outside of Fourth Wing I suppose), I would be interested in hearing from others with more experience and/or reading another book that can manage to combine some semblance of a believable romance or storyline in with all the copious amounts of cum and sex that happen between chapters.

If you're not yet sold from this glowing review, read this book if spoilersyou want to give your eyeballs the joys of reading about a human woman receiving over 24 ounces of minotaur creampie.