Author: Layla Fae
Series: Arranged Monster Mates Series book #8
Category: Monster Romance
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Can an arranged marriage story about a desolate young woman and a monster Lich be cute and wholesome? Turns out the answer is yes and so much more.
"I wondered if Virgil was alive. Did it matter? He was warm, and strong, and despite the pain of bone pressing into bone, I felt so good in his arms. Safe and cared for." - May
Virgil wants a bride, someone to love and be devoted to for the rest of his long life. May needs someone to take care of her while she heals her body and mind from a childhood of abuse devoid of affection and kindness. Together, they found exactly what they were looking for, despite their unconventional pairing and hesitations about their own worth to the other.
"She would have my soul forever, until we lay down together for eternal sleep." - Virgil
Due to their backgrounds, both had a lot of shame around eating. This commonality provided fiction in their budding relationship but also something they could help each other with. They truly needed to save each other in different ways.
"You are precious to me. You soothe my loneliness. I will never let you go." - Virgil
This novella was such a great love story above all else, and I wish it was longer! It was so easy to give this book a four-star review.
Tropes and Themes: Monster Romance, Lich, Arranged Marriage, Abuse, Age Gap, Fated Mates, Fantasy and Paranormal Romance.
Blurb
Liches are almost gone, only a handful of us left. I must marry to keep my race from extinction, yet how? No living female will ever stoop so low as to marry a lich. People fear us. They say we are the harbingers of death, bad luck, rot and decomposition.
In one last bid to carry out my duty, I request a wife through the Temple. She turns out to be a neglected, sickly thing with trembling hands and downcast eyes, seeking an arranged marriage out of despair.
And she’s perfect. Her blushes burn hot, her voice rings with feeling, and her kisses taste like summer. She is life personified, all warmth, light, and sweetness, and I crave her like darkness craves the sun.
But will she sacrifice her warm, beating heart to a creature of death like me?
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