A review by beereina
Seraph, by Lily Mayne
4.0
Read to me by Alexa
🌶️🌶️🌶️ - I’ve read 4 of the 6 monstrous series books and this one is probably the most adventurous. I mean….. monster sex is adventurous but this one probably deviated most from human couplings.
This was really good! I’m shallow and I took one look at the fan art of Seraph and said nope…. Don’t want to read about this ugly monster getting it on….
But it had such good reviews and I was in the only book slump…. So begrudgingly I picked this up and I’m so GLAD I did! If you’re a fan of the series Seraph in Lilac are definitely favorite couple contenders. I love Danny and Wyn most, but Seraph and Lilac might be a close second.
Okay so Seraph is kept in a cage after he was saved from Collector Mary, this book picks up right after Moth and Charlie head out to save Cat. Seraph is in pain and out of control. He spends most of his time screaming, growling, and thrashing. Lilac, the camp’s resident protector, takes on the burden of watching Seraph at night once his cage has to be moved outside the camp’s walls. It is during these nightly watches that Lilac get to know another side of Seraph and love blooms.
That’s the gist. Now why this story is so good!
So again….. Seraph is not attractive by any traditional measurement. He’s got leathery skin, too many eyes, a mouth full of large sharp teeth, long gangly limbs, and seriously interesting genital anatomy. Romance is almost always written with conventionally attractive descriptors. Even romance featuring monsters. They tend to have ripped bodies, other worldly beauty, super human strength, hell…. They even smell or taste good…… Seraph is leathery, gangly and smells earthy…. But YET……. Lilac’s unwavering devotion to Seraph is written in such a way that you find yourself thinking…. Are his many eyes beautiful?
I’m paying such a huge emphasis on Seraph’s outward appearance because even by Monster standards…. He’s weird. And pretty much everyone except for Lilac thinks of Seraph as an “it” or an animal. Then add in his mindless screeching and thrashing and Seraph is not your ideal MC in any romance. But Lily Mayne did such a good job of creating a complimentary character in Lilac. And it’s Lilac’s point of view that really allows us to first see beyond Seraph’s outward appearance and behavior, and then… as their bond grows… to even appreciate that stuff too.
Lilac doesn’t love Seraph despite the stuff I described. Nope, he loves Seraphs many eyes, his leathery skin, his earth scent, and his long limbs.
I feel like I’m rambling and clearly I’m NOT a writer because I don’t think I’ve dd one a great job of conveying why this is so good, but basically this was a really sweet story and I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. The love between these characters was palpable and super compelling. Seraph has a back story that’s essential to the plot. But really this was about Seraph and Lilac finding eachother and it was done perfectly.
If I reread this will easily get moved to 5⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️ - I’ve read 4 of the 6 monstrous series books and this one is probably the most adventurous. I mean….. monster sex is adventurous but this one probably deviated most from human couplings.
This was really good! I’m shallow and I took one look at the fan art of Seraph and said nope…. Don’t want to read about this ugly monster getting it on….
But it had such good reviews and I was in the only book slump…. So begrudgingly I picked this up and I’m so GLAD I did! If you’re a fan of the series Seraph in Lilac are definitely favorite couple contenders. I love Danny and Wyn most, but Seraph and Lilac might be a close second.
Okay so Seraph is kept in a cage after he was saved from Collector Mary, this book picks up right after Moth and Charlie head out to save Cat. Seraph is in pain and out of control. He spends most of his time screaming, growling, and thrashing. Lilac, the camp’s resident protector, takes on the burden of watching Seraph at night once his cage has to be moved outside the camp’s walls. It is during these nightly watches that Lilac get to know another side of Seraph and love blooms.
That’s the gist. Now why this story is so good!
So again….. Seraph is not attractive by any traditional measurement. He’s got leathery skin, too many eyes, a mouth full of large sharp teeth, long gangly limbs, and seriously interesting genital anatomy. Romance is almost always written with conventionally attractive descriptors. Even romance featuring monsters. They tend to have ripped bodies, other worldly beauty, super human strength, hell…. They even smell or taste good…… Seraph is leathery, gangly and smells earthy…. But YET……. Lilac’s unwavering devotion to Seraph is written in such a way that you find yourself thinking…. Are his many eyes beautiful?
I’m paying such a huge emphasis on Seraph’s outward appearance because even by Monster standards…. He’s weird. And pretty much everyone except for Lilac thinks of Seraph as an “it” or an animal. Then add in his mindless screeching and thrashing and Seraph is not your ideal MC in any romance. But Lily Mayne did such a good job of creating a complimentary character in Lilac. And it’s Lilac’s point of view that really allows us to first see beyond Seraph’s outward appearance and behavior, and then… as their bond grows… to even appreciate that stuff too.
Lilac doesn’t love Seraph despite the stuff I described. Nope, he loves Seraphs many eyes, his leathery skin, his earth scent, and his long limbs.
I feel like I’m rambling and clearly I’m NOT a writer because I don’t think I’ve dd one a great job of conveying why this is so good, but basically this was a really sweet story and I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. The love between these characters was palpable and super compelling. Seraph has a back story that’s essential to the plot. But really this was about Seraph and Lilac finding eachother and it was done perfectly.
If I reread this will easily get moved to 5⭐️