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I know I promised I was going to be dropping book reviews at least once every week, but this past week I wasn’t consistent. That’s because I felt sick and school/work has been very busy. Anyway, I finally have some time to sit down and write this review, so let’s get into it without too much preamble.
This particular book is the sixth in a series, and I haven’t read any of the other books in the series. In fact, this is a new-to-me author, but I loved this one a lot and I think I’m going to check out all the others.
I really love steamy monster romance novels, if that isn’t obvious by all my previous reviews where I have gone on and on about this monster romance phase I am currently in.
Whenever I find an author with such an expansive backlist, I’m always too tempted to dump all of my other obligations and just read, but we’re adults now – we can’t do that so easily.
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Anyway, this particular book is about a wolfman and don’t get it twisted, he isn’t a shifter. I’ve read about orcs, vampires, fae, and many other monsters during this phase of my life, but I haven’t actually read about a wolfman before.
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The difference between a wolfman and a shifter is that essentially wolfmen stay in a half-shifted form, and that is basically their natural state. They don’t shift into pure wolves, and there isn’t really a dichotomy between their wolf personality and their human personality. I thought that was very interesting.
This is probably based on folklore from some country, but the author doesn’t provide any notes on that, so I’ll definitely be checking it out.
What I found really interesting about this particular book is that, in the entire series – unlike other series that follow a certain family or community, this one, at least from the synopsis and what I’ve read, circles around different monsters and how they each find their partners. Some of them are linked, but more often than not, they aren’t, and I found that fascinating.
Now that we’ve gotten to this point where I’m actually about to start the review of the book, I’m once again so flabbergasted, because I said I wasn’t going to give a preamble but ended up giving you several paragraphs of backstory and my thoughts – I don’t even have the strength to edit that out. Anyway, let’s get into it immediately.
Our female lead, Stella, was a princess. Her father was very cruel, as was her elder brother. She had essentially been kept under lock and key in the palace for the first sixteen years of her life. When she turned sixteen, she helped her brother’s intended bride run away, and that triggered everyone.
She was then locked permanently in her room, and her mother informed her that she was going to be wedded off to some random person. So she decided to run away, got some help, and escaped. Ten years later, she meets a wolfman, and they fall in love.
This is a very condensed version, because a lot of other things happen, but I think I’ve already provided enough spoilers (even though these aren’t really spoilers) – you really need to read the book to see how everything plays out.
I love when authors include a content warning in the book, but I don’t know why I really don’t like it when they instead provide a link to a page on their website. This is just me being very particular, but I feel like it’s better if all the content warnings are laid out directly instead of pointing people to an offline page.
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I don’t know – I just personally don’t like it. But I do appreciate it; it’s always lovely when an author takes the extra effort to make sure readers are comfortable with the story, and I love that so much.
This is actually not a very long book. I think it was under 500 pages, which isn’t that long to me. It really depends on how fast you read, but it wasn’t long – I read it in less than three hours. It was very interesting and surprisingly very steamy.
There are so many spicy scenes, and I won’t even spoil it by letting you know which chapters, but trust me – we don’t waste a lot of time before getting into the drama. You’re going to love it.
There is a prologue – and don’t skip the prologue! I read a post on Threads where someone was talking about how they always skip prologues, and I don’t understand it. The prologue is literally a jumpstart – why would you skip it?
If you do this, please let me know why. I know some authors tend to put a lot of unnecessary information in prologues, but that’s more common in older books; with more recent books, that’s rarely the case. In this particular book, the prologue lays the foundation and shows us exactly how we got to this point. I don’t think it was unnecessary.
That said, everything in the prologue could technically have been communicated through her inner thoughts, so maybe I’m contradicting myself a bit here, but prologues aren’t a no for me, at least. At the same time, I do feel like a prologue can be dispensed with if all the information can be communicated in the actual story.
I believe this is a self-published book, so there are a few typos, but nothing too significant. The only reason I even noticed is because I do some critiquing on the side (you can check out my page to learn more about my services if you’re interested), so I usually pay attention to this kind of thing when I’m reading, along with character development, plot, and so on.
But I’m not bringing all of that here – this is just my very lighthearted review of a book I genuinely loved.
I also wanted to mention that I read another monster book the other day that had a single POV, and I was so annoyed. I think I’m used to dual POVs or at least third-person with alternating perspectives in romance novels, so whenever it’s a single first-person POV, I just feel like the story is incomplete.
This particular book was dual POV, and I loved every page of it. I really enjoy seeing how the romance unfolds from both characters’ perspectives, and it’s so sweet. It’s, of course, instalove – this is a novella, as I mentioned earlier, so don’t expect any kind of deep, groundbreaking storytelling.
It pretty much follows the same template we know and love, but it has its unique points and is actually quite interesting.
All in all, I really enjoyed reading this book and I recommend it to anyone who needs something new.
This is one of the new books released in June 2025 that I was looking forward to, and I enjoyed every bit of it. The romance between the leads is pure, sweet, and slightly angsty.
You should definitely check this one out if you want a new monster romance book on your TBR. As I said earlier, it’s a quick read, and this author is a fantastic writer. I think you’re really going to enjoy it.
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