A review by smuttea_matcha
Monsters by K.N. Banet

4.0

The more I read about Kaliya, the more attached I get to her and her problems. She tries really hard to be edgy, but at the end of the day, like Leith hinted at, she doesn't believe she can be loved so her knee-jerk reaction is to push everyone away or run away before they can leave her first.

Spoiler

But for someone who was trained by an ancient assassin whose literal title is Assassin, she wasn't very assassiny when she set off the alarm in the lab...

I do love the development of her and Raphael and how it's not just mindless sexy times, but I'm excited to see how her relationship develops with Cassius, Sorcha, and Raphael. My only issue is that Banet tries really hard to convince her audience of how tough, hard, and epic her female protagonist is (also what I didn't like about Jacky Leon) and doesn't do a great job of showing us, because in simple fights the MC seems to be put off balance quite easily despite all that hype.