Uptown Ogre

Monsterville, USA, Book 6

By: Ava Ross

Narrated by: Mason Lloyd, Felicity Munroe

A suit-wearing ogre is pretending to be my boyfriend, and I think I'm falling in love.

After being ousted from my small town by an underhanded wedding planner who is also now my ex, I moved to Monsterville for a fresh start. There, I find myself in direct competition with the hottest ogre in town, Raze. He's too cocky and snobby for his own good, and he wears designer suits and ties all the time. I sometimes wonder if he wears them to bed.

When my ex shows up in Monsterville, determined to win me back, Raze steps in, offering to pretend he's my boyfriend and business partner. Only when my ex tries to outbid me on a royal fae wedding do I agree. With our combined forces, Raze and I will win the job and send my ex packing.

The more time I spend with Raze, however, the more I wish he was my real boyfriend. Can I convince him that an ogre and a human are the perfect monster match?

Uptown Ogre is set in the Monsterville, USA Series. Each book is standalone and best enjoyed in order. Expect romantic hijinks with monsters, heat, and a happily ever after.

©2023 Ava Ross (P)2024 Podium Audio

Book 6 Review 

I can’t wait to find out who the sharif demon is in love with. Will he be able to say the word love?

Good, not my fav of the series though

I breezed through a lot of these short cozy monster romances since I was going through a pretty stressful time in the real world and these were quick little escapes. I was interested to see how these rivals handled working together and falling for each other inevitably haha. I also wanted to see more cameos from some of our favorite couples and families from earlier on in the series.

I didnt connect with this story as much as I would have hoped. It was ok, but would be in the bottom half of the books in the series to be honest. I don't know if I didnt feel the chemistry between these two like I did in the previous book where they had to work together on stuff for the wedding festivities but I just didnt feel it for awhile in the story and since these aren't super long I couldn't give this one 5 stars like I have some of the others (or some of the ones I have finished but not reviewed yet haha).

I thought the audio was good, I do wish the author would have changed up the narrators for a couple of these or rotated them around so it wasn't the same voices doing all of them. I think once the chemistry really hit and the characters finally let things happen ahaha, it was on point (which is why I still gave it 4 stars). There were some great funny moments with our demon sheriff and some of the other quandaries our couple got themselves in haha. I felt for Raze's restrictions/issues but I felt the unrequited crush so hard for Elisa (once Raze got the stick out of you know where haha). I hated her ex and all the obstacles thrown at them, but loved seeing them work together, their friends and family help out, and seeing them finally get their HEA.

Definitely would still recommend reading/listening to these in order, it helps build up this great world the author has created.