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STAINED GLASS MONSTERS by Andrea K. Höst

Creatures from the Eferum are a world-wide problem: creeping through tears in the fabric of space, they feast on every unprotected human they can find.

Tyrland has a solution in the Kellian: faster and stronger than humans, they are Tyrland’s clawed, shadowy monster hunters. But no matter how faithfully they serve, or how true their sworn word, they are too different, too separate, to ever be entirely trusted.

Rennyn Claire is a complication. Secretive and obscenely powerful, she knows entirely too much about a massive new threat to Tyrland’s safety. Worst of all, she is linked to a past that the Kellian would rather forget.

All three of these things – monsters, Kellian, and an entirely overpowered mage – are about to land in Kendall Stockton’s lap. The last thing Kendall wants is to try to play conscience to someone who can swat her like a bug. But innocent lives are at stake, and no-one else seems willing to ask if what is necessary is the right thing to do.

And who, exactly, is the monster?

Check out this book on Goodreads: Stained Glass Monsters (Eferum, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10134027-stained-glass-monsters
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Andrea K. Höst’s books are not easily chategorized. She mixes fantasy, science fiction and steampunk with a strong romantic element while never losing focus on plot and character development.
Her novels always feature interesting and capable heroines that are easy to identify with, sexy and thoughtful men and fully fleshed out secondary characters. There are usually multiple lgbt characters in each of her books.

Reylo in the forest

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I recently rewatched my all time favourite movie as a child, Ronja Rövardotter (for the english speakers: Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter), and noticed some parallels that can be drawn to Reylo.

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For those who haven’t watched the film or read the book by (awesome!) Astrid Lindgren:

Ronja is the daughter of Mattis, chief of a robbers clan, and his wife Lovis. She grows up in her parents’ castle in the woods with the robbers as her only company, until a rival robber group (led by their chief Borka) moves into the other half of the castle, exacerbating the longstanding rivalry between the two bands.
When she meets Birk Borkason, the only son of Borka, the two start out as enemies, but once they get to know each other they become very close friends – but know that they cannot tell their families.
When Birk is captured by Ronja’s father, she gives herself to the Borkas so she must be exchanged, but as a result her father disowns her and refuses to acknowledge her as his daughter. Birk and Ronja run away to the woods, where they live in a cave and experience several adventures. Ultimately their families repent of their feuding, and everyone is reunited, but the story concludes with both Ronia and Birk deciding that the robber’s life is not for them.

Character parallels

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Both Ronja and Birk grow up quite lonely, as the only children among adults and find themselves on opposing sides of rivalling forces, namely their opposing clans of robbers.  

After being abandoned by her parents, Rey grows up alone on Jakku amongst other scavengers. While Ben is surrounded by other children, he is singled out and different from a very young age, due to both his bloodline as well as his unique powers, and also ultimately alone. They also find themselves on opposing sides of a war, in their case the Resistance and the First Order respectively.

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Ronja & Rey

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There are obvious parallels between scavenger Rey and Ronja: She, as well as Rey, is self-reliant, spirited, kind, but a fighter who stands her ground and is not afraid to speak her mind and question authority. She cusses and insults Birk a lot. She also is very impulsive and often lashes out before thinking, she even bites him in the cheek at one point by mistake (but refuses to apologise). 

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Birk & Kylo Ren

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Birk is born into (robbers’) royalty and very aware of that. When he is first introduced he comes off as a little arrogant and smug. He insults Ronja and mocks both her origin and her abilities. (To be fair, she does as well)

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The First meeting

The first time Ronja and Birk meet is at the rift that separates both halves of the castle (fittingly called “the gorge of hell”). They immediately start to throw insults at each other. Birk jumps over the rift after Ronja tells him to “come over if you dare, I will punch you in the face so hard your nose falls off!”. To keep face she starts jumping as well. Birk is quite impressed. They then both start competitively leaping back and forth across the abyss. Finally, Birk slips and almost falls to his death, but is ultimately saved by Ronja, who pulls him back over the edge. When Birk tries to thank her and suggest that maybe now they belong together, she slaps him and tells him to go to hell. 

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Now, where might we have seen two antagonists insulting each other, then fighting on the edge of a cliff before… followed by an impressed boy offering a union and the girl rejecting him…

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(I realise this post might be interesting only to a niche readership – assuming that most of your aren’t Swedish or German, where I know this book/movie is most popular – and this is pretty long already, so I’m putting the rest under a cut.)

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I loved this movie as a kid (still do). It’s dark, creepy and magical. It’s definitely not the typical cutesy stuff Hollywood pumps out.

You are not the only one who saw parallels with reylo. Some time ago I also made a (very short) post about that movie. Of course this meta is something else. Thank you for taking the time to do this awasome in-depth analysis.

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Blackthorn and Grim series by Juliet Marillier.
Took me five days to read them. The author was recommended to me by @fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains who’s read her Sevenwaters Series (which I also intend to read because Jfc her writing is amazing).

I loved just everything about the story, the characters are written so well and each is given their own POV. Every book has a different adventure in it as well as a mystery that Blackthorn and Grim are trying to solve. If you like smart, brave and interesting female leads, and kind, hulky cinnamon rolls that Grim is, you’ll love these books!

Highly recommended author.

She’s usally writing (high quality) YA but this book features a mature heroine. And by mature I mean older than 29 which usually prevents female characters from being the main protagonist within the science fiction and fantasy genre.

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me: *is neck deep in angel-monster erotica*

also me: ah, but why stick with angel monsters when you can ALSO read alien elf erotica

Oh mY the author is on tumblr! This explains the very vivid descriptions of very specific genitals. Also angsty pretty boys. And somewhat heavy handed handwringing over power dynamics and consent. Like I love how this erotica is trying to be more than erotica, and informed, but if they both wanna fuck and it’s clearly telegraphed as consensual just let em fuck mate. They don’t gotta be politically correct about it when there’s nothing to be politically correct over? This book is full of knotting and alien peen that looks like a tentacled lotus plant, so it don’t have to be that deep

me: *sees a novel where a woman sleeps with a kraken*

me, with a hundred unread samples already on her kinkle, pointing to the shelf: I want that one

HNNNNG. So after being coy and finishing this book in less than a day I’m gonna have to recommend it with some (fairly) large caveats, because even though I’ve got quibbles I really enjoyed it and think it deserves to be read:

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Genres: Erotica/Alien kink
Read it if you like: knotting, extremely graphic descriptions of VERY creative alien peen, captivity scenarios, tsundere alien princes, soft boys, actual feels, very passionate/loving romances that transcend species and differing genitalia, actual emotional character development in your erotica
Warnings: Rape/Attempted Rape (not by the love interest to the protag, though, thank god–he’s good)
Things I loved: The book tried to be more than erotica, which was really cool? Like I went into it thinking it would be alien kink junk food, but it actually was really thoughtful and self-aware in its depictions of gender, gender fluidity, power imbalances and depression. The alien prince is great. The pacing is great and the sex is hot.
Things I wasn’t too hot on/the caveats: The subtext/philosophical discussions were heavy-handed af and kinda clumsy. As you can see from my complaints above there were points where the author seemed tortured by the current zeitgeist of fictional hand-wringing that we see on tumblr, and it detracted from the story. There was some real shoe-horned death and the maiden stuff at the end that also felt out of place, and the protag–Lydia–really has no character development at all, whether its internal or external. I felt like I was reading about a blank piece of paper designed to reflect the prince’s emotional state–like it was reader x alien–and I’m not a fan of self insert. I’m annoyed at the rape/attempted rape and the subtext surrounding it.

ANYWAYS, IT’S STILL A V GOOD READ. Very quick, only took me a couple hours.

Great review!

For more books with strange, unusual and monstrous love interests take a look at this list:

https://fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains.tumblr.com/post/171011429752/heyy-do-you-know-some-books-with-teratophilia

You recommended The Sorceress’s Orc some time ago and I’m trying to find it online, but I have to ask – is there a romance in this book? How is the Orc – IS HE CUTE?? And how much of him is in the book?

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Nonnie you better sit down, major spoilers under the line so if you don’t want to read them, just don’t but to answer your first question, yes, there is romance  ;]

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A very relevant review.

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This book was made for me, I s2g. It’s cover is the worst I’ve ever seen outside of an MS paint doodle, but the prose is phenomenal and its like the Marquis de Sade on crack. Honest-to-god-monster angel meets Giger fever dream meets zombie apocalypse meets death and the maiden. Its the darkest, goriest, most existential erotica I’ve read in ages.

Spoiler alert: the protag, Lan, shacks up with Azrael, literal Biblical Angel of Death. He’s this 10ft foot tall grey-skinned motherfucker walking around like a strung-out Pyramid Head, complete with claws and eyes so bright they basically burn and a voice that makes your ears bleed. He wears a ram helmet–or has ram horns???–and wears a golden mask because his face makes people freak the fuck out, like actual angels do.

In between fucking Lan with a cock the size a horse, he opines about existentialism and the nature of pain and how he wishes he had a mother, so its oedipal too. Did I mention there are zombies???

10/10 recommend and I’m only 20% through this book.

I mean its so oedipal he’s literally creating “children” out of corpses because he’s lonely af. He makes them call him Father. He’s a goddamn tsundere with image issues that just wants to be loved, but he also has no earthly inkling of how do this because he’s going around impaling people and flaying them alive and creating torture rooms that put the cenobites to shame. So far he’s landed on earth–cast out, maybe?–and he’s set up some sort of sadomasochistic garden of Eden and started a zombie apocalypse in the interim. The dead rise because he controls the dead, and they cannot die unless he reaps their souls, so no one is escaping this pain anytime soon.

The motherfucking protag entered this underworld via literal ferryman in a pseudo-coffin. She paid the ferryman–who is dead–by sucking him off. So I guess there’s necrophilia too???

Fuck. This is going to turn into a liveblog. Spoilers, fuk. sPOILERS-

THERE IS A SCAR TOUCH. I REPEAT, A FACIAL SCAR TOUCH STRAIGHT FROM THE MOST HEATHEN REYLO DREAMS-

Add incest to the list of taboos this fic ticks off. I’ve got to the part where the brother and sister fuck like rabbits while they complain bitterly about their “Father’s” concubines.

oh my god. oh my gOD

This is the most sinful shit I’ve ever read. It is me. I am the new vanilla. My own words are dempster’s white bread compared to this cornucopia of eldritch horror erotica. I have found God and dug too deep in my quest for kink. I am undone and made raw

Day 2 of Liveblog:

This is either gonna end in redemption or tragedy cuz this cenobite-cum-angel just wants to be loved and has it bad for Lan, and she doesn’t get it at all. gOD MY SHIPPER HEART

Fun quirky linguistic fact about this book: zombies are called eaters and concubines are called dollies and Azrael has had exactly 483 dollies and is trying to work his way to 484. There’s a new dolly in this city of the dead he’s set up–this post-apocalyptic garden of eden–and her name is Cassius. Considering the historical significance of the name Cassius I’m pretty sure she’s here to kill Azrael and is gonna try to kill Lan in the process, because Lan is loyal to him.

The book has been making a big deal about how he rises up the dead like vampires to keep them preserved forever, but refuses to do it with Lan and gets straight up triggered by the notion. $10 says Cassius gonna poke Lan with the sharp end of a needle and he’s gonna be forced to rise her up, or something similar, and it’s gonna wreck him.

Seriously though, this book cover is a fucking crime to grace a goddamn masterpiece like this. Look at it. Not even a mother could love it:

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It’s a combination of the worst typography impulses known to man, the sort of graphic design my first year professors would fail me for, and that bargain-bin Rey from the TLJ porno parody. Who the hell signed off on this. My soul is cringing into oblivion and crab-walking backwards out of my body

Ah yes, great book! The author is the queen of monster romance/erotica (complete with good plot and characterization).

I’ve put two of her other works on my list of books with monsters as love interests. I only didn’t include this one because I liked the other two on the list even better and I wanted variety.

Heyy do you know some books with teratophilia themes? Or if not, some good monster books?

fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains:

Thank you for
asking! Really, your ask was exactly what I needed. You see, I was thinking
of writing this list for some time now but I was too lazy.

I have stuff to
recommend because I‘ve been actively looking for books that
feature inter-species/monster romances for a long time. Fun fact: Up
until recently I didn‘t know that this kink was called
teratophilia. 🙂 Thanks, tumblr for educating me. Also, since I found
out how to navigate the relevant tags my life has improved
immeasurably.

Books with monsters as love interests:

  • Radiance (Wraith
    Kings, #1) – Grace Draven

The
male protagonist is terrifying by human standards. He finds the human
heroine appalling and he’s just as ugly to her. The like each other
from the start.

Alien-lizard-man,
monk and fighter… Need I say more? Ok: The heroine is fat. She does
lose weight while trying to survive on a hostile alien planet though.
The lizard man protagonist is interested in her either way. All kinds
of trigger warnings for this book: violence, rape, gore, death. It’s
also over 900 pages long. Crazy.

Alien-Insect
man, single dad and adorable. The human social worker really tries to
help him and she does… Reads like District 9 fan fiction which is a
good thing! This book is a bit tamer than The Last Hour of Gann but
the sex is still graphic. 🙂

Check
out this author’s other books as she seems to specialize in
monsters of all kinds.

Girl
is abducted by the King of the Goblins. This is not a David Bowie
Goblin King, this one looks really monstrous. It’s a YA book but
the good kind. The heroine is not an insufferable brat and there is
no love triangle (note: love triangles are only acceptable for me if
they end in a three-way).

Really
beautiful and magical book, sex happens but off-screen.

Another
one where the Goblin King really looks like a goblin. Set in
Jane-Austen-Land.

The
heroine is almost a cyborg. Her extremities were replaced by
completely overpowered prosthetics after a horrific assault while
working as a government agent. She’s traumatized, in pain, doesn’t
have full control of her new body and hasn’t come to terms with her
new menacing look. The rock star demon elf protagonist is very much
into her. Yes, really.

Add
a really inhuman demon to the mix with whom the heroine also has an
intense relationship. Don’t worry it’s not a fucking love
triangle (the bane of my existence). You’ll see… Actually the
description of the whole demon society is very cool and unique and
probably my favorite part of the book.

The
male love interest is a genetically manipulated cat-like human. Plot
driven science fiction book.

Trigger
warning: atrocious cover art

Still,
give this book a chance! Fluffy and sweet romance between a human
woman and an alien-lizard man. Enough plot to be still considered a
science fiction romance rather than just erotica in space.

  • Earthrise
    (Her Instruments, #1) – M.C.A Hogarth

This
is an actual furry novel. I did not know such a thing existed.
Thankfully the main couple is a WOC and a space elf but there are so
many furries in this book. For example there is a furry (tiger-like ?) couple. They are siblings (twins actually)… But don’t
worry that’s perfectly normal on their planet.

Now
one might think by this description that this book is completely
depraved erotica. Unfortunately it’s not. The tone of this book is
so sweet and cute it could be directed at children. Spoilers: It’s
not because, you know, incest…

So
yeah, strange experience but if your are into this stuff this might
be the book for you.

This
one is really erotica. Mainly sex, a little plot.

Human
heroine meets impossibly tall gender-fluid space-elf prince who grows
an interesting cock over the course of this novella. Yeah.


Books
I haven’t read yet :


(I
don’t know if they are good.)

  • Books
    with dragons:     They are really easy to find. Just type ‘dragon’
    in the search bars of Goodreads or Amazon. From children’s books to
    erotica – there are many titles to choose from. I can’t really
    recommend a specific book because they are not my preferred kind of
    monster. I have read a few books with dragons but nothing that was
    memorable enough to recommend it. I’ve yet to find an interesting
    dragon. 😉

Do you know a book with a monstrous love interest? Please, contact me or reblog with your recommendation! Thanks 🙂

Reblogging
to add some books I forgot in my initial post:

It’s
the end of the world but in a remote valley a small group of people
survived. A woman strikes a deal with a magical creature, the Hob to
keep them safe.The
Hob is monstrous, magical and mischievous and also the last of his
kind. The poor monster boy just wants a girlfriend. 😉

Human
blogger tries to raise awareness for the amphibious hero’s people
who suffer on their occupied home world. The first book seems to set
up a polyamorous relationship.  

Books
I haven’t read yet:

Seems
to have a lot in common with The Shape of Water. It’s also the only
book on this list that falls into the category of literary fiction.

For
Orc lovers. I don’t know if there is romance. 

Thanks
to @roguesareth who suggested

  • Valiant
    (Modern Faerie Tales
    #2)
    – Holly Black

The
love interest is a bridge troll.