Abyssian had vowed to destroy his fey mate only for her to die before he could exact his revenge on her for enslaving his demon race. Lila, his mate reborn, looks like the latter but doesn’t remember her past life or the horrors she caused on his people. Now, Sian is slowly starting to let his guard down, but little does he know, she was sent to destroy him once again...

Join us this week on Romancing the Monsters as we talk all things reincarnation and overcoming your nightmares, loneliness and the isolation that comes with feeling like you don't belong. We also discuss how one's perception of oneself can be affected by physical changes that can't be stopped or prevented, potentially transforming you into someone you no longer recognize.

We FINALLY reveal our Valkyrie names, reflect on our journey reading this 20-book series and sprinkle in a few theories for where we think the series might be going next! Join us!

Trigger warning: mentions self mutilation, torture, enslavement, betrayal by a loved one, toxic masculinity, low self-esteem and self loathing, childbirth and death.

Book of the week: Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Ever had a book that you love whole-heartedly but don’t see people talk about nearly enough? Well, we’ve got a few of those for you!

Join us this week on Romancing the Monsters as we discuss books on our list that are “underrated” and deserve some love! We discuss dragons, time travel, and hot single dads. We also kind of discover that maybe we do like friends to lovers…? *gasp*

Books mentioned:

Carter & Leah by R.J. Lewis

Hawthrone & Heathcliff by R.K. Ryals

The Mason List by S.D. Hendrickson

Arrows Through Archer by Nash Summers

The Surviving Trace by Calia Read

Forever Right Now by Emma Scott

Hearts on Fire by L.H. Cosway

Six of Hearts by L.H. Cosway

King of Hearts by L.H. Cosway

The Unwanted Wife by Natasha Anders

A Husband’s Regret by Natasha Anders

Heart of Fire by Bec MacMaster

Media mentioned:

I Am Dragon, directed by Indar Dzhendubaev, 2015

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Psychology student Adrian is thrown into the deep end when he meets his first client as a new counselor. Rory, who struggles with severe heliophobia, is uncooperative at best and intimidating at worst during their sessions. However, despite getting off to a rough start, Rory and Adrian feel an instant connection and neither of them can ignore the pull that drives their every encounter. But before long, Adrian is faced with the reality of living in Rory's eternal and suffocating darkness and whether or not he can be the one to guide him back towards the light...

This week on Romancing the Monsters, we discuss phobias and how they relate to past traumatic events and the various ways in which the former can control our life. We also discuss how some forms of help are productive while others simply enable destructive behaviors and lifestyles. And lastly, we tackle the importance of standing up for yourself and advocating for those whose cries for help are being silenced.

Trigger Warning: mentions of phobias like heliophobia, anxiety and panic attacks, verbal and physical bullying, unlawful filming of sexual acts, near death experience due to bullying, and inability to trust another person.

Book of the week: Shades of Darkness by Nicky James

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Rune the Archer and Josephine the vigilante first meet when Rune is "otherwise occupied"…with not one, not two but FOUR nymphs. However, that doesn’t stop Jo from stealing his most prized item, one that was given to him by his mother as a child. Thus commences their journey of love, healing and acceptance. And let's just say...Rune is more than capable of ruining us with his words!

In this episode of Romancing the Monsters, we discuss the importance of working through one’s past and not settling for less than what you deserve. We also look at the very relatable fear of being forgotten and what that would entail for a half vampire/half phantom individual confronted with immortality.

Trigger warnings: mentions of childhood physical and sexual abuse, death of a child, death of parents, choice between love and duty, fated relationship, the fear of being forgotten and slavery.

Book of the Week: Sweet Ruin by Kresley Cole

Books mentioned:

Lady and the Orc by Finley Finn

Media mentioned:

Interview with the Vampire, directed by Neil Jordan, 1994

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

The time has come once again for us to share what we’ve been watching and reading recently! Unbeknownst to each of us, we seem to have a theme here and it's...psychos? While some of these books may not be for the faint of heart, rest assured we have you covered with some sweet psychos as well! HA! We jest. Fear not, listeners, we have tons of other recs for those who aren't too keen on the darkness. Join us!

Trigger warning: mentions of death, death of parents, racism, the devil, murder, kidnapping, dub-con, non-consensual, marriage, aliens, abandonment, psychopaths, sociopaths, cults, abuse against minors, pregnancy, terrorist allegations, prison, false imprisonment, corruption in the justice system, anti-heroes, villains as romantic lead, women being forced to become vessels for spirits/power.

Books mentioned:

Broken by the Horde King by Zoey Draven

Jegudiel by Tillie Cole

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

Amusement by Albany Walker

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

Marriage for one by Ella Maise

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

Stolen Mage Bride by Sylvia Mercedes

Endangered Species by Onley James

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

Viper by Naomi Lucas

Media mentioned:

Lucifer, developed by Tom Kapinos for Fox (2016-2018) and Netflix (2019-present)

Kardeşlerim, directed by Serkan Birinci, 2021-present

In the Heights, directed by Jon M. Chu, 2021

I Am Dragon, directed by Indar Dzhendubaev, 2015

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Ketahn, our alien spidery hero, has caught himself a brand new pet...who happens to be Ivy, a human crashlander who was venturing into the unknowns of space in the hopes of starting a new life before it all came to a screeching halt. Ivy soon realizes that Ketahn's world is unlike anything she’s ever thought possible and she is forced to depend on him to survive. But of course, first contact with new alien life comes with its set of hardships and quite a few...interesting discoveries. Who knew alien spiders would turn out to be kinky!

Also discussed: choosing one's own happiness over the well-being of a group and how hard it is to navigate this choice, the ethics involved in handling the fate of people who are unable to voice their own wishes, neglect of a parent versus indifference of a parent and how they may affect someone's future relationships with other people.

Trigger warning: mentions of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, neglectful and indifferent parenting, homelessness, rights being taken away, a society under an authoritarian rule, matriarchy, patriarchy, bondage, and interspecies relations.

Book of the week: Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts

Books mentioned:

Ice Planet Barbarians series by Ruby Dixon

Shielded Heart by Tiffany Roberts

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Long ago, there was a budding relationship between two young immortals whose species were at war. Thronos, a Vrekener, who was "NOT" a winged-demon and Melanthe, a Sorceri gifted with the power of persuasion. Theirs was a union that blossomed into sweet friendship despite the odds—and dissolved just as quickly into hatred and obsession for centuries thenceforth...until the fates reunited them once again for the ultimate game of survival.

This week on Romancing the Monsters, we explore the miscommunication trope, the positives and negatives of having a fated bond and why those two things can lead to obsession and the loss of one's identity and individuality. Also mentioned: the idea of misogyny and gender roles in a conservative environment and the difficult process of dismantling a learned mindset/mentality.

Trigger warning: mentions of death, physical and mental torture, misogyny, gender role expectations, cults, verbal abuse, non-sexual acts done without consent (forced removal of Sorceri magic, etc.), and sterilization.

Book of the week: Dark Skye by Kresley Cole

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

Dear reader, what is sure to be the most scandalous event of the season has occurred! This author delights in announcing that Lord Anthony Bridgerton seems to have found his match in Miss Kate Sheffield, a headstrong, self proclaimed spinster who vowed never to be wooed by a Rake. The Ton will certainly be spoiled for entertainment this season as the two use their wiles to engage in the ultimate battle of will! After all, all is fair in love and war...

This week we discuss the repercussions of losing a parent at a young age and how that might warp someone’s perception of their own future. We also explore traumas, phobias, repressed memories, and the looming presence of death.

Trigger warning: mentions of death, loss of parent, anxiety attacks, panic attacks, childhood trauma, self-sabotage, allergies of insect bites, and phobia of rainstorms

Book of the week: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn

Media mentioned:

Bridgerton, created by Chris Van Dusen for Netflix, 2020-present

Books mentioned:

It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

We’ve got a mentally unstable lykae who finds his mate in a succubus, the same species of the woman who murdered his parents and molested him as a child. MacRieve has a lot of trauma to unpack in order to move forward with his mate, Chloe who was thrown into the world of the Lore with no prior knowledge of it. Oh, did we mention her father is Webb, the sadistic psycho who tortured many from the Lore? Yeah, this one's a wild rollercoaster of emotion folks, so you better buckle up!

Also discussed this week: The way past trauma can affect someone's emotional growth and capacity to move on or rationalize, how far one would go to assuage their own pain even if it’s at the extent of a loved one, as well as the darker (and less talked about) side of fated mates.

Trigger warning: mentions of suicide, child molestation, rape, abuse, dubious consent, torture, animosity to one’s partner and death.

Book of the Week: MacRieve by Kresley Cole

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.

This week, we take a trip to the jungle and explore the wonders of the unknown with this Tarzan-inspired tale! Meet Thorn, the mystical protector of the jungle, and Eden, the American journalist who finds herself thrown into the thick of it. As danger looms in the distance and an unknown man threatens Eden's life, the two of them fall in love amidst the treacherous and beautiful depths of the Impenetrable Forest. But what does it mean to love a man who doesn’t know life outside of the jungle and what if he is the lost heir to an Earldom he doesn't remember nor want?

In this episode of Romancing the Monsters, we discuss the destructiveness of greed and power, the enduring quality of nature and its mysticality, the burden of love in the real world vs. the freedom of the wild, and the representation of Africa in western media.

Trigger warning: death of a parent, murder, plane crash, animal cruelty and death, deforestation, poaching.

Book of the Week: Love in the Wild by Emma Castle

Books mentioned:

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole

Media mentioned:

Tarzan, directed by Jason Lima and Chris Buck, 1999

Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack, composed by Phil Collins, 1999

The Legend of Tarzan, directed by David Yates, 2016

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.