My 2024 Reading Challenge for the month of February will be Beat The Backlog work (digital and print books). I'm going to start with the Monsters & Mayhem series (a mm collection of classic horror adaptations with a romantic twist). The tenth book is "A Delicious Descent" by Amanda Meuwissen; it's a Dracula retelling.
["Dracula retold, with Jonathan as the object of the legendary vampire’s obsession.
Engaged to his dear friend Mina, Jonathan Harker jumps at the chance to delay their wedding by accepting an assignment in far-off Transylvania. Jonathan loves Mina but not in the way a man should love a wife, for his true passion lies with the company of men, an illicit craving he can never indulge.
Upon arriving in Transylvania to help the elusive Count Dracula purchase an estate in London, Jonathan makes some surprising if tantalizing discoveries. It seems his mysterious client has similar proclivities and encourages his male servants to explore their forbidden desires, all the while tempting Jonathan to partake.
Carnal pleasure isn’t the only surprise awaiting him, however, as Dracula’s secrets are far deadlier than Jonathan ever imagined, and as alluring as his new master’s touch."]
This one was a little more complicated. Well, a lot more complicated. Secrets, servants, more secrets. Spice, sweetness. Depravity, desperation. Confessions, confusion. Friends, foes. Homes, happily ever afters. Let's just say, with every disadvantage, with every uncertainty, there were three times the benefits. It was hard, for Jonathan to chose the unknown, the feared, the darkness, but maybe, the darkness was what let him out of his own shadows and into the light, into his happiness.
Trigger Warnings: typical vampire violence, period-specific homophobia, and more
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