Luxuria: A Monster Romance (Shades of Sin Book 1)

One of my Highlights of the year.

Actually 4.5 stars! Tbh I would have never expected this but this book was really good! Even though everyone recommends this bc of the smut, I have to admit that I really enjoyed the world, setting and story a lot!! It was more written like a fanfic, but still: I enjoyed it. This book dragged me out of my reading slump

Fun, but just okay.

A lot of repetition, the same misunderstandings over and over started to annoy me halfway through the book. Otherwise cool concept and likeable characters. I‘m interested in other shade/human pairs now, too. Will probably pick up the next one as well.

This was way more interesting than I expected it to be! The story is this. Ophelia is a failed Shades hunter. Shades are basically demons that is live in a parallel, colorless world and that need to feed on human fear to survive. Ophelia's life changes when she's called on by the Hunters to fulfill a peace treaty that requires a hunter to go live in the Sahdes realm and marry their King, Allerick. I thought this would be pure monster smut, but actually it took a while for any action to start. Allerick was cutely worried about Ophelia's wellbeing, while Ophelia just wanted to get railed. But a misunderstanding about Ophelia's scent made eveything really hard for them. It was a really fun read !