A review by wardenred
A Monstrous Christmas in the Camp by Lily Mayne

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

The night of festivities for the camp hadn’t even started yet, and I already had my hand down Moth’s pants.

This is basically a Christmas special whereby we take a break from the normal proceedings of the Monstrous series, such as meeting new monsters and humans and watching them fall in love, and spend some time with the characters we already know and love in a practically no-stakes situation. Everyone’s literally just having fun.

As usual, I really, really liked most of the scenes that weren’t couple-focused. Like, just assorted characters interacting outside of their relationship. It was especially lovely to see new moments from two of my favorite friendships: Wyn and Edin, and Charlie and Hunter. I also enjoyed learning more about Anchor, though I wish her backstory wasn’t so sad. Can she have a second chance at happiness, please?

As for all the romance content, weirdly, outside of some moments between Wyn and Dany and then Ghost and Ari, I was kind of meh on it. Like, yeah, each of the couples got their share of sweat moments, but I think the balance of feels to smut leaned too much toward smut for me, and I wasn’t entirely comfortable with like… how much everyone knew what exactly everyone else got up to, with consent often becoming kinda blurry in that context. 

Overall, I think I would have missed nothing in terms of continuity if I skipped this extra, but it has its fun moments. 

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