The Orc and the Manny

Monsters Hollow, Book 1

By: Chloe Archer

Narrated by: Greg Boudreaux

Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to Monsters Hollow, where love knows no bounds—even in a town full of monsters!

Targan Wildethorne

A confirmed bachelor and a historian by training, I haven't the faintest clue how to care for twin orclings when I unexpectedly become their guardian. I'd love to retreat into the comforting sanctuary of my study, surrounded by my books and papers, but first, I need to hire someone to help me with the children. Someone who can teach me the ropes of this new role.

Thank the Light for the All-Species Specialized Employment Services! In my most dire hour of need, they find the perfect nanny—ahem, manny—to help me look after my young wards. Now, I can finally get back to writing my history of orc folklore for a few hours a day.

Or so I thought.

Instead, I find the captivating new man in my home far too distracting. Max is so much more than I had expected. I've never fallen for a human before, but I can't get him out of my mind. Could he ever feel the same about an orc? Humans are usually too intimidated by our large size and outer appearance. Can Max look past my green skin and tusks to see a man with a heart that yearns for him? And if he does, when he learns the truth about the children, will the danger on the horizon send him running?

Max MacLeod

Working with kids is totally my jam, and I'm damn good at what I do. Just call me Maxy Frickin' Poppins! When a new job prospect comes my way, I'm intrigued. A chance to move to Mystic Hollow (aka Monsters Hollow) to be a well-paid manny for two adorable orclings? Talk about a dream position. Sold! But when I lock eyes with the seriously sexy orc who's their guardian—and my new de facto boss—for the first time, I'm a goner. Big, muscular, and green all over–he's giving me full-on Hulk meets stern professor vibes—and I like it.

As I get to know him over meals with the kids during the day and soft-spoken conversations about history at night, I soon realize there's so much more to Targan than the gorgeous orc who keeps starring in all my naughtiest dreams. He's quite possibly the kindest, gentlest man I've ever met. And he accepts and appreciates every part of me and my flamboyant, full-figured fabulousness. I just want to feed and take care of him—and find out if he's so deliciously big everywhere. Before I know it, I'm dreaming of being part of a forever family with him and his adorable twins. But an unexpected threat looms in the shadows that could threaten the safety of us all…

The Orc and the Manny is a cozy small town M/M monster romance featuring a Hulkalicious silver fox orc professor who's better with books than kids, a flamboyant human manny with all the skills (think Nathan Lane in The Birdcage meets Mary Poppins), an age gap, a size difference, a three-headed hellhound and a feisty rescue Chihuahua, two adorable orcling twins, and copious amounts of orc… joy!

©2023 Chloe Archer (P)2024 Podium Audio

Loved it!

I'm completely in love with this world Chloe Archer has created! Love the vast variety of beings, characters, personalities, challenges. Love Targan and Max, the kids, the DOGS , the friends! Found family, loads of humor, UST everywhere, and a wonderful story to boot. I love the Maxy Poppins bit, Albert from the Birdcage meets Mary Poppins - it's priceless & precocious, precious & passionate. Love the cinnamon roll orc & (be still my beating heart!) the Scottish security guy! I'm eager to see where this series leads. Bring it on!
As for Greg's performance - he bumped this already wonderfully written story to 5 stars all the way. Excellent accents, voicings, natural conversational flow of dialogue and story - Absolutely brilliant!

Targan and Max

𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔, 𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚. 𝑴𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚, 𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆. 𝑯𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔.

Targon and Max take us on their journey in Tʜᴇ Oʀᴄ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ Mᴀɴɴʏ by Chloe Archer, the first book in the Monsters Hollow series.

Targan is used to being completely on his own, so when he takes over custody of his best friend's children, he is completely out of his league and hires Max as his new manny. Max ends up being so much more than Targan expected.

Max, looking for a new experience, takes a job as a manny for an orc family and is not prepared when he arrives at the house to find Targan, the sexy orc professor and his wild bunch.

Targan and Max's journey is definitely entertaining and humorous. I love everything about this story and the entire cast of characters. Max is fantastic with the orclings and his sexy professor, Targan. I love how Princess Peach continually puts Waffles in his place. The little family this group has created is beautiful.

Greg Beaudroux is a fantastic narrator and I love how he brought Mystic Hollow and it residence to life.

If you enjoy...

🏳️‍🌈 MM • 💚 Monster • Orc • 🩷 Manny • 💚 Small Town • 🩷 Size Difference • 🎙️ Dual, First

...this book may be for you!

Another great cozy mystery by Chole Archer and I am looking forward to more from this small little town.

🍁🍁🍁🍁.5

Family

Max finds the love of his life and family when he accepts a job as a Manny to Targan. I loved how Max found a way to get two orphan kids relate to their uncle and make them a family.

Once again Greg has done a wonderful job narrating.

Super Sweet

This book was really sweat with a lot of spicy. made me cry a few times

Perfect combo of humor, romance, and plot!

I love the Tentacular Tales series and I may like this one even more. Can’t wait for the writer and the gargoyle!

What a great world.

I really like the world this series is taking place in and look forward to seeing all the different species pair ups.
The human MC in this book took me a while to like as his fem ness was quite over the top and jarring to being with. I normally love a good fem but I guess this one just rubber me wrong.
Narration was great as usual but the voice of the fem didn’t help me like him any quicker.
I am looking forward to the next book though.

Awesome

Always entertaining both story and narration. Can’t wait for the next one. Hopefully all the books will be in audiobooks.

Greg triumphs again!

Greg Boudreaux is my favorite narrator of all time and this may be his best work yet. It’s an incredibly fun story with a truly wild cast of characters that all have their own distinct voices that all sound like *them*—the audio makes the book even better.

Super cute cozy fantasy

Chloe Archer always does a great job of creating vivid, often ridiculous, lovable characters, and this book feels like a concentrated dose, combined with a refreshing, silly, sexualized take on traditional fantasy species like orcs, goblins, sphynxes, etc. It's a lot of fun escapism with some real feels, but very little angst. If you enjoy over-the-top twinks finding love with hunka hunkas of a different species, this is for you.

The Orc and the Manny

I like to read the book before I get the audio. I loved the book and the audio was WONDERFUL. I love Greg and his voices. I don't know how he does them all. Can't wait for Riders audio book. I know it will be just as wonderful.