A review by beckyisbookish
Monsters Under My Bed by M.J. Marstens

2.0

This had a ton of potential but just wasn't executed properly. It's a high fantasy idea, complete with hard to remember names, political hierarchies and social structure, falsely advertised as a quick smutty fantasy romance romp. The problem is that so much was crammed in to roughly 200 pages which should have been spread over 4-600. I get it's a series but the first book contained 3 books worth of information and build up.

It's pegged as smutty reverse harem but has very little of that in the first book or much spice at all since there's so much background story to wade through.

The jumping POVs were confusing because you don't know the monsters well enough to establish the personalities and distinguish the names from one another. Also they go from being these terrifying beings that had the fmc in a psychiatric hospital to jumping to their view points after where they love and adore their mate so much which is just fan service to make you like them.

The story itself reminds me of dozens of others, including Faes Captive, ie the normal girl gets stolen away to a mythical scary land protected by her mate(s) and turns out she's the chosen one or else super powerful and defeats the evil force which is ruling the land and preventing the race from finding their mates etc etc

I don't know, there's probably a good idea here but I'm not sure if I buy it.

2 monster tongues giving self fellatio out of 5 high school boyfriends who wait for your return for 12 damn years