I'm still obsessed with Lyonne Riley so I'm continuing through all her works!

This book is an anthology series of six different monster romance pairings. Each story features a different type of monster. The setting for some of the stories involves a place called the Menagerie, a place where monsters can live and be themselves at.

The Good
The wolfman/orc story was my favorite. It was a chaotic start and really set the tone for the rest of the stories to come. There was one about a dinosaur man that had really interesting worldbuilding but I wasn't really into the couple. I also wasn't sure if this took place in the same world as the previous story but I rolled with it because it was a cool set up. I loved the Yeti one. It was sweet and cozy. It took place with someone who worked at the menagerie trying to get a yeti to go live there. There's a merman story and all I could think about is a salt water induced uti. If you like namor from black panther with all the underwater vibes there, you might like this one. This merman was an actual merman though. The workplace werewolf story was really fun! It might have been my favorite, tied with the first story. And the last story focused on a dryad who lived at the menagerie but needed more access to the forest and is taken on a trip with a worker there. It was a really sweet story as well.

Tropes:
— Monster Romance
— Anthology

Horn Level: 5/5