Stephanie's Reviews > Tentacles & Triathlons

If you're looking for a low angst, Hallmark-style monster romance, this is the series for you. Monster romances tend to be dark, angsty, and high smut - and this series is like, what if it's just a normal small town romance and one of the leads is also a monster?
The covers in this series? Stunning. The drawings really bring the characters to life and are a testament to the powers of good marketing.

While sugary sweet, I felt like this book suffered because each of the leads didn't really have a defined personality. Reece has prejudices against monsters because of his past, but literally resolves them within a chapter by internally reflecting on it. He's machismo (apparently, according to Cyrus' impression of him), but I never got that vibe. He's highly sensitive, awkward, shy… just like Cyrus is. They really had very similar personalities and although the mood of the story is low angst, I felt there could have been some differences for a little more plot/spice between them.

CW for abusive parent. I wish we would have gotten a little more around this actually - because in the prologue we see a monster *scare* Reece... but I took it as, the monster was warning him away for his own safety