The Monster Botherer

  Eldritch Horrors are more my fated mate’s cup of tea, but I can never resist a monster, I welcome them in all shapes, sizes and sanity loss percentages. “The King in Red”, very heavily influenced by “The King in Yellow” by Robert W. Chambers, follows Jade, an introverted, studious and incredibly lonely twenty something college student as she discovers a discarded play in the student library, researches it, finds out it’s pretty much cursed and somehow killed a few people so reads it anyway. In her dreams, she meets “The King” and feels a connection. This continues for a week, with nightly self pleasure sessions after every meeting, she quickly becomes obsessed with this man from her dreams, despite the fact she’s never seen his face.  While the “curse” usually takes a week to kill off lesser mortals, Jade is still alive and kicking after the time frame, despite being entranced by those red lights she sees everywhere, but after falling asleep she is pulled into The King's wor...

  Don’t you hate it when you find your boyfriend cheating on you with your assistant and to cope you drown your sorrows and take advice from your rubber duck to buy a possibly haunted hot springs. Yeah me too.  When Sylvia arrives in Grizzlywood Springs she’s confronted with a dilapidated and outdated hot springs, a cutthroat competitor and an incubus who wants to help, as long as he gets something in return. Sylvia agrees, she can use all the help she can get. As Apollo fixes floors, teaches her to use her previously unknown about magic, conspires with abovementioned rubber duck (who Sylvia had turned into a tulpa without realising it) and “recharges” both their batteries with lots of lovely sex, the two grow closer and while the end goal of freeing Apollo from the hot springs grows closer, Sylvia finds that she doesn’t want to lose him.  Oh No! There’s an Incubus in my Hot Spring is a wholesome story, giving slight Twin Peaks vibes (which is never a bad thing) and very ...

  After a long grueling day of my fated mate listening to the song “Fighting Trousers” by Professor Elemental on what seemed to be repeat, I thought I’d take a leaf out of his book and focus in on some gaslamp monster romance. “A Polar Expedition: and Other Stimulating Research Opportunities” by Kass O’ Shire. A headstrong magical scientist wants to find the source of magic, much to her peer’s and superiors' chagrin, but she goes ahead anyway, trudging further and further into places she shouldn’t be. She’s being followed, tracked ,by a polar bear shifter who can’t bear (see what I did there?) to follow his strict orders, captivated by this little stubborn human who only wants to learn. Sirin (our female main character) is plump, nerdy and down to get dirty (in the field. She throws herself into her work, get your mind out of the gutter.) She also knows herself and has the confidence to reach for what she wants. While she has terrible things happen in her life, she doesn’t let it s...

    After stepping in and saving the world, the Fae have one request, that they are allowed to mate human women as female Fae are rare. A big ask, but yeah, I get it. Some humans have indicators in their blood that will allow the mating, and transformation into fae, to happen so it makes sense for a survival of the species kind of deal. However, quite a lot of humans find the idea offputting, so the “The Society” (leaders of the Fae) decide to make it more appealing and turn it all into a reality tv show. Suddenly, everyone loves the fae, and the world is watching as human women find their winged mates. “The Fae Batchelorette” is incredibly popular, but some older Fae men, the ones close to fading away because they haven’t met a mate yet, are a little too volatile. They need something rougher, something more aggressive so “The Society” decide to start a new show.  Molly’s time is up. She's been chosen to take part in the next series and she really doesn’t want to go. With...

         Meet cutes are usually quite wholesome, you know, grabbing the wrong takeout coffee when you’re in a rush to get to work, tripping over your own feet and landing in the middle of his puppy play date picnic. Not him performing a citizens arrest on your ex and then being dragged away in chains while he yells that you’re his bride and he will impregnate you with many sons, but here we are, and this isn’t a complaint, far from it.    It’s an interesting premise, the male (orc) love interest is basically imprisoned for the majority of the book due to the Orcish “dark of winter” condition that leaves him likely to abduct and ravish his mate rather than behave a bit more respectfully. I wouldn’t mind but I guess to integrate with humans successfully you gotta act a bit more human, especially when it comes to courting rituals. Without the ability to even be in the same room together, our mates have to find a way to communicate, to get to know each oth...

        When Hayley moves to Hallow’s Cove she’s determined to find her fated mate. In fact she’s desperate. After the ultimate betrayal (catching her boss and her girlfriend in the act) she’s feeling a bit unlovable, and after countless dates that lead nowhere, that feeling is getting worse. Even her lucky panties have given up on her and they make their way to their final resting place in the dumpster outside. Until they’re “retrieved” by a rather perverted little raccoon who can’t resist the scent. Yes really. It’s a trash-panda shifter romance. Yes it’s as unhinged as it sounds. Monster enthusiasts are always looked upon as being a bit kooky when it comes to the romance genre, but we enjoy what we enjoy. I feel that that is the spirit of this book, letting the freak flag fly high. Hayley and Jake are the free spirits, the quirky ones, the ones romance books don’t usually focus on, but we get to see their funky little relationship grow despite the fact Hayley does...

        In a world where monsters run the show after “revealing” themselves three years ago all anyone can do is try to survive. Winter is struggling to make ends meet, take care of her frail grandmother and worry about her brother who was lost to the high of vampire blood. Oh and she’s also an oracle who needs to work out how to save the world from further destruction. I picked up the ARC of The Reveal, though I’m not keen on anything kind of post-apocolypsy, but the blurb intrigued me enough to give it a shot.There’s no cosy love story here. It's raw and it’s brutal in its way, but a warmth also seeps in through the cracks in the little moments that normally would be so forgettable, but I guess when you’re facing death every day, the good times deserve to be remarked upon.  The myriad of characters in this book are what bring it to life though. From the monsters who help Winter, to her immediate family and new renters, there are so many different personalities...