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 third book is "Death's Bloom" by Lily Mayne; it's a Blackbeard retelling.
["He’s the most perfect man I’ve ever met, but something is… wrong.
I don’t see it at first. All I see is the gorgeous man with dark eyes and long hair and that unusual blue beard. The piercings and the tattoos, the beautiful smile. All I can focus on is the way he touches me, the sound of his voice in my ear, the perfect life he draws me into.
I hide it from him at first. The fact that… I think I’m losing my mind. That I keep seeing something lurking in the corners of rooms, keep hearing a terrible voice mumbling in the dead of night, keep seeing white eyes watching me in the dark.
Something is haunting me. Tormenting me. Trying to ruin this perfect life I now have with Theo, so I do my best to pretend that everything is fine. That I’m not terrified I’m losing my mind, or that a demon is stalking the halls every night trying to… get me.
Until I can’t pretend anymore. Until I realise… the monster in my nightmares and my perfect, loving boyfriend are not so different after all.."]
This book was a little terrifying. Sweet in so many ways. Fluffy in ways that I honestly didn't predict. Protective and possessive and loving. But terrifying. I didn't sleep well last night.
But Theo and Ari were perfect for each other. They completed each other in so many ways. They were soft and spicy and so in love it was dangerous. As was Theo's secrets (and Ari's secrets). It was...a lot. But it was also adoring and beautiful.
Trigger Warnings: graphic depictions of death, gore, violence, a somewhat toxic relationship, morally reprehensible characters, and more.
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