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A review by vrstal
Beastly: A Gay Monster Romance by Cole Burne
5.0
4.5/5. Highlights may contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.
Content Warnings for book: Toxic masculinity, parental abuse, misogyny, fantasy violence, stalking
Kink: Praise kink, tail play, breeding kink
I loved this novella! This is a shorter monster-loving romp with some pining, friendly stalking, great sex scenes, and even surprise mpreg (no pregnancy or birth scenes on-page).
Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite fairytales, especially in MM retellings. This follows the fantasy story pretty much beat-by-beat except the differences between Beau’s father and no focus on Gaston in his cruel ways. Despite the premise this isn’t especially dark, and I loved that the Beast was really caring and wanted to protect Beau.
The library, of course, is an amazing feature of these sorts of retellings. Another aspect I enjoyed was the magic of the castle and how Beast doesn’t turn into a human because of true love. He stays his beastie self, and that’s great.
My one suggestion to the author is to avoid the “straight-to-gay” tag. I don’t think it was relevant to the story and can turn some readers off.
Overall, I didn’t come in expecting much and came away loving it!
Content Warnings for book: Toxic masculinity, parental abuse, misogyny, fantasy violence, stalking
Kink: Praise kink, tail play, breeding kink
I loved this novella! This is a shorter monster-loving romp with some pining, friendly stalking, great sex scenes, and even surprise mpreg (no pregnancy or birth scenes on-page).
Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite fairytales, especially in MM retellings. This follows the fantasy story pretty much beat-by-beat except the differences between Beau’s father and no focus on Gaston in his cruel ways. Despite the premise this isn’t especially dark, and I loved that the Beast was really caring and wanted to protect Beau.
The library, of course, is an amazing feature of these sorts of retellings. Another aspect I enjoyed was the magic of the castle and how Beast doesn’t turn into a human because of true love. He stays his beastie self, and that’s great.
My one suggestion to the author is to avoid the “straight-to-gay” tag. I don’t think it was relevant to the story and can turn some readers off.
Overall, I didn’t come in expecting much and came away loving it!