REVIEW: Ogres and other Dating Dilemmas- Mytho Investigations Book 8- TJ Nichols

It has been ten years since the mytho world collapsed into the human world and gave all the human haters something else to revolt against. It is not a surprise when there are protests and violence and a cry that mythos are not human but beasts.

This is the world that Troy, an ogre, grew up in and a world he has been trying to live in. Troy doesn’t want to remain in the ogre community, a community who still lives in the old traditional ways where marriages are chosen by Aster the leader of the community. Aster wants Troy to become her fourth husband and that is not what he wants, he is gay and has made it known that he will not be accepting a marriage with a female.

It is at a basketball game that Troy first set eyes on Sean Lloyd who was on the human team while Troy was on a mixed team, mythos and humans. Sean couldn’t get his eyes off Troy who was exactly what he wanted, huge everywhere and that is all I will say about that. In the shower room Troy tries to make his interest known but Sean just ran.

Sean is a man who lacks confidence when it comes to relationships, he runs before the breakup he is sure will follow happens and before he is heartbroken. He is a mytho biologist which has not endeared him to many mythos. His work revolves around plants, trees and insects but many feel he was responsible for experiments on living beings. Troy does not care about his job only him.

Then Troy made his feelings known Sean was happy to agree to a date and at the same time was afraid. The fear is a result of tensions between humans and mythos that often result in violence. Troy lives in the ogre region and humans are not always happily received, Sean lives in the human region and a mytho would stand out like a sore thumb. Neither Sean nor Troy feels comfortable in the other’s region but if they hope to have a relationship it is a necessary evil.

Aster still refuses to give up on getting Troy and doesn’t hesitate to get her other three husbands to use threats and violence. That violence also is against Sean and Troy is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to being with the human he has grown to love and fearing for his safety. The passing of the Mythological Persons Bill claiming mythos as human could finally bring the wall down that has separated the species.

Being seen as human and given the same rights would make being together so much simpler for Troy and Sean but would undoubtedly lead to more deadly violence.

Humans always seem to find a reason to hate, protest and bring about violence, we see it every day, you just open a newspaper or put on the tv. This is my first book in this series, and I loved it, Sean and Troy are wonderful characters who just want to be able to love who they want, and that too is nothing new in our society.

Violence, sex, love, surprises and secrets, this book has it all. I read some reviews that made mention of catching up with Jordan and Edra and although I did not read the start of their story, I enjoyed reading how it ended.