Book safety, content warnings, and tropes & tags down below.

“How in the hell did you know that was there?” “I told you, I can smell them.” Edin stood back up and dusted off his hands. “It stinks here. Besides, there are obvious signs.” He waved an imperious hand around at the field and road. I looked again. There were no obvious signs.

I remember devouring this book *so* freaking fast. It’s funny, a little sad, there’s action, and the smut is super hot. It sets up the rest of the series beautifully, and gives us a different perspective of things than we got in Soul Eater. Which I guess is true for every single book in the series. It’s a pretty long book and it can definitely feel a little repetitive at times, but at the same time it went by really fast. Somehow the book manages to give a fairly deep dive into the characters while there’s still things happening externally, without it feeling like it sacrifices one or the other.

“He is mine, human,” Edin snarled, taking a step forward. “I am his, he is mine. Not yours. Yes? Do you understand?”

I absolutely adore seeing Wyn and Danny again in this book, and generally my favorite parts of this entire series is whenever the characters from each book interacts with each other. That enjoyment triples whenever it’s Edin who shows up later on, because he just keeps getting funnier.

Don’t worry, human.” He shot me a wide, fanged grin. “I think you’re pretty.”

I absolutely love grumpy characters, and I think it’s really neat that it’s Hunter, the human, who’s the grumpy one in this book. Expressing emotions is basically torture for the poor guy, but his character development is great in that department. If you enjoyed Soul Eater, you really should keep going with Edin. I love it.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Monster/human
Military
Dystopian
Disability rep
Grumpy/sunshine
Rescue mission
Size difference
One-sided enemies to lovers
Tail

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PTSD
Injured MC
Prosthesis
Graphic violence
On-page killing
Facial scarring
Fight ring - forced to fight
Mentions of amputation
Explicit sexual content
Mentions of torture
Mentions of the death of family

*Most of this list can be found on the author’s website:
lily-mayne.com

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Book safety ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Cheating: No
OM/OW drama: No
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, single POV
Genre: Fantasy/monster romance, M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles

Charlie’s horrified eyes met mine. Welp, my best friend now knew what I sounded like when I was getting railed to within an inch of my life.

“Fuck,” I breathed out, half-laughing and half-sobbing at the sheer gall of it. Of spending twelve years in the military fighting monsters, twelve years out in the Wastes, but meeting my end all alone in a fucking sinkhole in Kentucky.

“Monsters, if you insist on being so general, did none of those things, human. Your military did.” I flushed with anger. “The military—” “—Was the one who started attacking us,” he interrupted. “All of us. Indiscriminately. There are some species of monster that came here who would never hurt a living soul. Yet that didn’t matter, because they looked different.”

Might be a point in there somewhere