A review by nbbookery
Into The Woods: A Monster Anthology by Salem Sinclair

3.0

I enjoyed the short stories, but I felt like most of them were setting up the scene for a longer story/book and therefore lacked a lot of the background information that would have helped me give it more stars. One short story, for example, was a novella in between an existing book in a series and the upcoming next book. If you haven't (and I didn't) read the first book, you were missing a lot of the story's background. Many times, there were characters or world building that lacked description (or was explained in a prior book) and I felt a little lost. The only thing the authors did to combat this was include a small blurb at the beginning of their work to explain a little about the world they were writing about.

Despite that, I enjoyed the shorts for what they were: a couple chapters of smut per author. Seriously, every story dove right into it and barely set up the scene before kicking into the "monster romance" part. This stuff was spicy. We're talking tentacles, gods, antlers, omegaverse, mythological creatures, and incubi to name a few.