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Love and Monsters by Max Walker

12 reviews

dawndiscusses's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Homophobia

Moderate: Death of parent and Violence

eeyores_flowers's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Kidnapping, Dementia, and Homophobia

Minor: Drug use, Animal cruelty, and Death of parent

fdap's review against another edition

funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

Fun, light read but I wish the mystery was less obvious 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Homophobia

sydniv's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Animal death

ashtonebemis's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Gun violence

booksthatburn's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Dementia, Animal death, Blood, Alcohol, Vomit, Stalking, Hate crime, and Homophobia

Minor: Biphobia

bibble_kingly's review against another edition

The villian of the story started monologuing about his horrible childhood and how he hated the MMCs because of their love.  On top of that, the trope of "he-is-into-'weird'-BDSM" was just an no for me. 

I was already uncomfortable with the framing and the horrible childhood addition made me go "Really?? That's the route we're taking????"

The insta love story felt a bit rushed to me and I agree with the other reviews here about the 0 to 100 sexuality. The MMCs are incrediblely horny for each over. Don't let the cover fool you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Toxic relationship and Death of parent

This book is basically an insta-love story with a stalking subplot. If you like horny main characters, loveable side characters and a kind of mystery, this could be for you.

peedsreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

This was such a fun audiobook!  My first listen from the Queer Liberation Library, and my first book by Max Walker.

The 2 narrators (Javi Wilder & Simon Dornet) crushed it. 1st person dual POV.

This book is horny af y’all.  Noah & Jake both love d!¢k, and we get to hear all about it. *not complaining* but like be warned.  It goes 0-100 many times.

Fast paced thrilling love story with lots of spice. It was a great time and I will be continuing with the series.

I really don’t have any complaints. I just wasn’t obsessed with it to the point that I’ll remember it in a week.

what I loved:
📍 set in Atlanta, Georgia
🌈 MM romance (bi & gay)
📚 [queer] book club found family
🤝 friends to lovers
🔎 mystery stalker storyline
🧮 accounts payable rep
❤️‍🩹 no third act break-up

what I didn’t love:
🔥 insta-love

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

Minor: Hate crime, Vomit, Alcohol, Murder, and Homophobia

stormplains's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Dementia

Minor: Homophobia

Stalking:

the back of the book summary tells you, but in case you glossed over it like me, the plot resolves around one character being stalked

Parent memories:

Jake’s mother has Alzheimer’s. We see her memory gaps, and Jake and Noah talk plainly about the disease and the emotional weight of it. These parts of the book are easily skippable, if needed, and no major plot is missed.

20sidedbi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Don't be fooled. No matter what. Booktok tells you, this is not a spooky monster story. The monsters are people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Stalking, Animal death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Homophobia, Dementia, and Child abuse

Minor: Murder