If you want fluffy romance and delicious smut, I beg of you, pick this book up. This was so so unexpected and I truly did not think I would enjoy this book so much. I picked this up on Saturday morning, thinking it would be a PWP smutty fast read. But it was so much more. Let me just say, I'm quite new to monster romances. Like I've always been intrigued but I've never really been won over. But this book right here? This is it. I've been converted.

Our FMC seems to have high functioning anxiety and I've never felt so seen. I related so so much to Violet. As someone who struggled with job searching, struggled adapting to a new job, struggled finding new friends in a new environment, struggled wanting to look successful or at least stable to my parents, I just felt so validated! And I was NOT expecting that from this book at all. 

Our MMC is literally the greenest green flag, I could cry. It makes sense that he's not human because literally no human man like this exists. The entire time he courted her, he always went at her pace and followed her cues while verbally communicating how he felt and where they stood. The way he IMMEDIATELY checked on her after their first time and asked if she wanted ice cream... I'M CRYING BECAUSE NO HUMAN MAN COULD EVER. 

Also, Rourke and Violet took the time to actually get to know each other. This wasn't the balls to the walls, non-stop, heavy, filthy smut that I was expecting from the title and cover. It's so much better and I am so pleasantly surprised at how well this was executed. Don't get me wrong, is it filthy? Absolutely. But the filth in the first half of the book was very technical? Like it was just her doing her job so it honestly didn't *feel* filthy. It only started to feel that way once the tension between our characters grew. And urgh, the TENSION that grew over the first half of the book while they courted... I have never screamed "JUST FK ALREADY" louder at any book before. Especially one where I had expected the fking to have already happened at least 5 times by this point. 

The only reason I didn't give this the full 5 stars was actually the writing. While I loved the writing for most of it, I noticed there were quite a few scenes where our characters are doing something in the present and then suddenly we're thrown back into their memory but the transition is quite jarring and confusing that sometimes I thought I had accidentally skipped a paragraph or something. I had to reread a few scenes just to make sure I'm getting it right. However, it didn't take away from the fact that this was still such a nice book.

They say, "Don't judge a book by it's cover". But when the cover is that suggestive, you can't help but judge it. I came in expecting a PWP book of smut but left with my heart full and my thirst quenched. Absolutely no regrets. I get it now, monster girlies. I get it.