Morning Glory Milking Farm – Book Review

Finished January 6, 2026

Let me start off by saying that erotica is not my forte—I’m quite the newbie to reading anything of the sort. Considering the popularity of fan fiction within my friend groups and the current rise of spicy romances, I’m very late to the party.

I’ve found that when I read erotica, especially ones in fantasy settings, I’m still treating it as if it were any other book in the fantasy book stacks. That is to say, I still need a somewhat compelling plot, world, or characters to get any enjoyment out of the book.

I may not have read a lot of romantasy erotica, but I have read enough to know that Morning Glory Milking Farm has a surprising amount of worldbuilding. Which is to say… any. Regular romantasy is known for its thin worldbuilding, so adding heavy focus on erotic content is often the nail in the coffin.

Morning Glory Milking Farm centers around main character Violet, and love interest, Rourke, through their unlikely relationship. The book is a workplace romance, though, the pair meet not as COWorkers, but as client and milking tech.

The novel is set in Bridgeton and the neighboring suburb: Cambric Creek, a place known for its population of diverse species. Violet, is fresh out of grad school and struggling to find a job in her field. She did everything right, yet nobody wants to hire her.

So, a pseudo-American society complete with its own failing capitalist system. Not what I expected from the cow porn book, but I’ll take it.

Violet is desperately in need of a job, and fast, because her student loans wont repay themselves. Morning Glory Milking Farm seems to be a commentary on late stage capitalism, and I appreciated it for the level of nuance it brought to an admittedly silly concept.

I found myself liking Violet because I understood her struggle. She was generally a sympathetic main character despite having the emotional depth of a kiddie pool. Though I did find myself a little annoyed with her pining for Rourke after he gets introduced. Generally, Violet has a sense of determination.

Desperate times call for desperate measures as Violet signs on to be a milking technician for Morning Glory Farm, a pharmaceutical company which collected Minotaur sperm in order to make male enhancement pills for humans.

A milking technician’s job function is exactly what you think it is.

When I picked up this book, I wasn’t expecting an actual in-universe explanation as to why our main character’s job exists. But I was pleasantly surprised and found myself actually interested in the ins and outs of Violets job and the types of clients she was catering to.

Everything is all very corporate, Violet even gets to watch one of those silly instructional videos all employees inevitably do in their onboarding process. Except, her job is getting Minotaurs to cum into an old-timey glass milk bottle, so it’s only very uncanny reading the dichotomy between the environment and the task.

Maybe to experienced readers of erotica, unlike myself, this all just feels like Tuesday.

Side note, seeing others rate this book as a 2 or 3 on a “spicy” scale, makes me very curious and somewhat concerned about what they’d consider a 5.

Side note, Side note…. Morning Glory Farm is real place in my state, something I got a kick out of when researching for this review.

Violet’s human nature makes her uncomfortable with the idea of her job being sex work, but comes to be told by other milking techs of different species that it’s more like getting your blood drawn with a very handsy phlebotomist.

Violet meets all types of people on the farm, making her feel uncomfortable as the sole human. She was under the assumption that her humanity would put her at a disadvantage, but comes to realize that human kinks are a thing.

I mean….yeah. That adds up. It does make sense for a world with a bunch of different species capable of interbreeding with each other to have species-specific preferences.

Cambric Creek’s diversity actively plays a role to aid the underlying importance of sex in this fantasy world.

“So you’re saying every human in town’s only here because they want to be dicked down by other species?” (Part 4, Chapter 10).

Violet’s friends and coworkers explain that the entire existence of Cambric Creek’s community centers around sex as an industry. Violet’s love interest, Rourke, compounds this industrial complex by describing the ways humans capitalize on interspecies needs.

Also through Violet’s coworkers and friends, readers learn the different ways that species will experience sexual urges, some going into heat like the real world animals they represent.

I’d recently finished The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, and some of this world’s explanations for sexual cycles reminded me of the concept Kemmer from that book.

Now, I’m not saying that the worldbuilding of Cambric Creek is in any way close to the depth of Gethen’s, but I am saying that an attempt at worldbuilding was made.

I particularly liked that Violet met up with her old friend Geillis who was now a vampire and holds a job not so dissimilar to Violet’s. Geillis works at a Vampire-centric restaurant where there are people on the menu who are blood donors. And similar to Violets job, some of those people sign up because they’re turned on by the idea of a vampire slurping all the blood out of them like a capri sun. Bleeders.

Geillis as a character was a little annoying, with a terrible accent and an introduction that seemed to only be there to give Violet any sort of friendship. She doesn’t seem to fulfill much purpose other than giving Violet another female to talk about Rourke with. Which is really lame.

I thought the side characters were a little one-sided and it felt as if they were only there to push Violet and Rourke into a relationship.

Now, Rourke.

I can’t be the only one that finds it really disturbing that she met him at her job right? I get it, thats the whole point. The client aspect of it gives off a strange power dynamic that doesn’t sit right with me. I find erotica to generally display patriarchal power dynamics with a guise of feminism because the female character has sexual control—even then, thats barely a qualifying criteria for something being feminist.

Rourke is plagued by the same issues as above, where he pretty much has all control outside of Violets job. He picks where they go out on dates and Violets ends up living with him. Rourke says that he is willing to do anything sexual Violet desires, and that she has full control, but also likes to give excuses to get out of giving her what she wants. While he makes these excuses to “protect her,” it’s just another example of a male character protecting a woman who doesn’t seem to really want his protection.

“I can’t promise you’ll be walking right on Monday, but we’re going to do things right the way and you won’t get hurt.”

She might perish before then, she thought miserably… (Part 5, Chapter 14)

I also can’t help but notice the “right way” is also not in Violet’s space, but in his. Explained away because well… he’s huge and would break her things, but we all know Violet wants him to absolutely fuck her shit up, so it’s not a great excuse.

But he wants to only rearrange her guts, not her room, too.

I am not a fan of Rourke’s love interest archetype and generally found him to be a bit tiresome.

As per the writing itself, the dialogue of the novel was pretty witty, in a bingeable sitcom sort of way. Remarks such as this one by Geillis were entertaining and were worthy of a few sharp nose exhales.

“Mhmm. Methinks the lady doth protest a bit too bloody much,” (Part 3, Chapter 8)

As I mentioned earlier, Geillis is supposed to have some sort of accent, and this line is one of those cases where I can’t tell if shes making an old timey accent joke or if thats seriousness. Either way it was funny, intentional or not.

Descriptions, more specifically any descriptions other than in sex scenes, were severely lacking. I found myself struggling to imagine a lot of tools Violet is said to be using. I am not familiar with farm equipment, nor was I able to translate my limited knowledge of cow milking machines into imagining something similar fit for humanoid bodies.

Upon doing the research for this article, I came to find that rotary milking parlors exist. I’ll let you Google that one for yourself, and you can take that where you please.

For the plot…..There is no overarching plot in this book. It is all about Violet’s job and her relationship with Rourke. While that type of storytelling isn’t exactly my cup of tea, I see the Hallmark channel romance appeal.

The character-oriented approach makes the novel very easy to read, as there isn’t some large plot to keep up with. It’s a very fast read as a result, too.

My writing style preferences seem to largely conflict with the general consensus of erotica readers. The low description, dialogue focused storytelling seems to be enjoyed by many, and I might as well be an outligher. But as I said, I’m new to this genre, so take my newbie opinions with a grain of salt.

As a summary, I did like Morning Glory Milking Farm more than I thought I would. It was funny, characters were alright, the worldbuilding was relevant to current socioeconomic politics, and the sex scenes didn’t make me want to bleach my eyes. I would dub it a fine read if you want a good laugh about 24oz of Minotaur sperm.

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