i am so much more efficient bookwise when i gotta commute!

i started reading this book because i saw it was pretty well reviewed even though it is like hetero monster fantasy smut.

this book has a lot of cock milking in it. i think cock milking is very hot and when the book does it it does it pretty well. i like the very clinical nature of a lot of the milking.

i like the book less when the lady who is milking minotaurs to help pay off her debt falls for one of the minotaurs. their relationship feels pretty patriarchial and heteronormative. at one point he says that when they have sex she gets to be in control but at one point she's lusting hard for his big minotaur cock and he just puts it away then is like "i don't wanna hurt you, i'm too big for you without preparation, so you'll have to come to my house this weekend for a 3 day long fuckfest" (paraphrased). It felt very infantalizing and makes it clear that any control she has is because he allows it.

after their relationship is consumated, the main character goes to her minotaur guy and is like "are you still okay with me working at the minotaur milkery?" i hate that shit, it feels weird and patriarchial.

prior to them getting into a relationship they have an accordion sort of relationship where they are misinformed about each other's availability in ways that lead to them both pulling away and then getting closer again which feels like it could be avoided with just communication. i hate that sort of thing.

the prose is functional. the audiobook is functional. the book would've been better if the main character was a guy and he was milking the knotted cocks of werewolves. all books need at least a little cock milking.