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These days, everything in her life seemed mismatched: from the little house to the tidy belongings inside of it, with its fragile tea saucers and cups. Divinia didn't have the luxury of such fragility. She had to be made of granite.

A Monstrous Love is a collection of two very short, spooky, delightfully queer stories, and is a perfect Halloween read. I enjoyed every brief little moment of this book and am now so glad that I've already purchased another of Magen's collections, as her writing voice is lovely and enchanting. The prose is beautiful and packs one hell of a punch in a very short time span.

The first story, "The Haunting of Divinia", is a unique ghost story about a young woman who's just moved into a haunted house. Things aren't quite what they seem, though, and without spoiling the ending for you, I'll just say that I was pleasantly surprised by the level of emotions it pulled from me in only a few pages.

The second story, "Taste", offers a peek into the lives of two young lovers whose hobbies are unique, to say the least. After you meet these two ladies, you might think twice the next time you read a cooking scene in a book.