In my previous post about writing Monster Romance. I mentioned some of my favorite authors, but in this post I wanted to share some book recs I have personally enjoyed, and that will also give you a good sample of the subgenre conventions of Monster romance books.
These books, like most of my book recommendations, are queer and trans books. So I have yammered on quiet enough! Let’s get to my 10 favorite monster romances!
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1. Fear and Other Love Languages by Aveda Vice
Because their dreams are just dreams…right?
2. Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh
Joy needs a deal with a demon to bring an end to the man who’d ruined her life. Malachi needs a deal with a human so he can remain in the mortal realm, far from the sentries looking to drag him back to his sect in hell.
It’s a match seemingly made in heaven. Except, Malachi doesn’t expect Joy’s thirst for vengeance to taste so sweet, and Joy doesn’t expect a freaking demon to revive everything in her she’d thought long-dead.
After the deal is struck, and the contract has come to an end, they both realize that one contract will not nearly be enough.
3. The Sea Monster’s Mate by Delaney Rain
Eric Baird made the decision to abandon modern conveniences and his prejudiced family for a simple island life. He has a small cabin and a lagoon all to himself and, though he’s sometimes lonely, he’s mostly relieved that he can finally be free.
But one lazy afternoon swim takes a dangerous turn when a cramp has Eric struggling not to drown. Suddenly, someone saves him, and he’s ever so grateful…until he sees who it is.
Tyfodorus is a Cecaelia who has a rather human upper body and a definitely squid lower half. As if a mersquid in his lagoon isn’t enough to knock the socks off Eric, Ty lets him know they’re here to breed. Would Eric be the host to Ty’s six eggs? Pretty please?
Eric gets to know Ty and agrees, resulting in some amazing sex and six little highly intelligent, totally adorable hatchlings. As they adjust to living as a family in the lagoon, they also have to understand just how genetically compatible they are, deal with a shipwreck survivor, and make plans for their future together.
4. In the Bedroom of Medusa by Magen Cubed
An ancient monster in the modern-day. A gilded castle with whispered secrets. A peculiar sapphic romance.
When Evelyn agrees to become the live-in companion of the secretive Lady Demetria Balaskas, the human finds herself falling for a creature lost to time.
5. Mirror Monster On My Wall by Tam M. Nicnevin
In a battle of wills against her wicked stepmother and a cruel earl intent on her dowry, Alice Blanchard is positive she has no one to turn to…
Regency England is a hostile place for twenty-five-year-old Alice Blanchard: half-Black, autistic, and wholly uninterested in the romantic company of men, her current plan in life is to endure the tyrannical abuse of her stepmother until the racist old woman dies of an apoplexy. That plan goes out the window when the cruel Madame Blanchard informs Alice that she’s been betrothed to the equally cruel Lord Matthew Hillborough, Earl of Pennwood.
Until four old friends show her what she’s truly capable of…
Ever since she was a little girl, the only people who’ve ever shown Alice real love were Magpie, Silver, Kapri, and Glashtyn: four strange, clawed, fanged, many-limbed creatures carved of black glass that appeared to her in her dreams. Now these beings are all grown up, and so is Alice. They love her, they’re willing to do anything for her, and she’s willing to do anything for them. She just has to find the desperation she needs to let her monsters step out of the dream world and into reality. All it takes is a full moon…and human blood like a scarlet tide…
Mirror Monster on My Wall is a 22k-word erotic monster mash-up novelette of “Snow White” and “Alice in Wonderland” set against the backdrop of Regency England and featuring a new kind of monstrous lover.
6. Bro and the Beast and L.C. Davis with Joel Abernathy
When musclebound frat bro Brad gets run off the road by a reckless driver, he thinks it’s game over. When he wakes up inside his twin brother’s favorite corny shifter romance novel, he realizes the real game is just beginning.
Desperate to get back to a world where he’s top dog, Brad finds himself in the crosshairs of Raul, the menacingly hot hero of The Wolf’s Mate, who’s intent on teaching Brad a whole new meaning to the word alpha.
Not only does Raul insist that Brad is an omega–his omega–but Brad is going to have to come to terms with the fact that he isn’t just a part of this fictional world. He’s a stand-in for the main character, and the only way out is to make sure he gets to his happily ever after.
7. I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend by Jessica Cage
Open a book. Read a spell. Whoop, there he is… a demon.
The last single friend in her group and tired of being stood up by her girls, a drunken Rayna turns to her first love, a book. After jokingly casting a spell her favorite character used to conjure a loving boyfriend, the results aren’t nearly as funny.
Because the damn spell worked, just not in the way she thought it would!
Now she has a brooding demon who she needs to sever the magical bond with if she ever wants to live a normal life again.
8. Her Soul to Take by Harley Laroux
I earned my reputation among magicians for a reason: one wrong move and you’re dead. Killer, they called me, and killing is what I’m best at.
Except her.
The one I was supposed to take, the one I should have killed—I didn’t.
The cult that once controlled me wants her, and I’m not about to lose my new toy to them.
I’ve always believed in the supernatural. Hunting for ghosts is my passion, but summoning a demon was never part of the plan. Monsters are roaming the woods, and something ancient—something evil—is waking up and calling my name.
I don’t know who I can trust, or how deep this darkness goes.
All I know is my one shot at survival is the demon stalking me, and he doesn’t just want my body—he wants my soul.
9. Mother of Pearl by A.A. Fairview
Lydia hadn’t planned to spend the summer poolside. She was supposed to get an internship in the city and spend nights with her girlfriend. Instead she’s single and making minimum wage as a country club lifeguard. Chlorine might dry out her scales, but it’s not all bad.
At least she can flirt on company time.
Stephanie is a bombshell mom with a fortune five-hundred job but without a wedding ring. She might have baggage, but it’s designer–and she’s happy to share the wealth with Lydia in exchange for some lessons in fishfolk biology.
10. The Dark One by Taylor Hubbard
When Finnian left home to go to university, he expected to return home with a degree and a job. But when his childhood friend comes seeking his help, Finnian must return home much sooner.
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