From the Dark we Came by J. Emery is a solid fantasy romance novella featuring a demisexual hero in an MM relationship. The demi rep was well handled and I enjoyed seeing the intersection between that and an older hero with chronic pain. I loved the worldbuilding and the prose had a great balance between function and expression. I was also fascinated by Belar's relationship with his fae heritage and wish we could have seen more of it. However, it's not perfect. There could have been higher stakes and more character development for my taste. I want to see characters grow and change and learn through adversity and I didn't feel enough of that here, especially for what could have been a high stakes conflict. Although, I do tend to enjoy stories and characters that treat the absurd or violent as mundane and that aspect worked for me. I just wanted more tension. I also wish it dealt more with what it would mean for a monster hunter to be dating a vampire, the main type of monster he hunts. That being said, I do appreciate seeing an aspec character in Belar that is a little morally ambiguous. The book contains one brief sex scene and some discussion of sex, including some light kink elements.