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 ninth book is "Hollow Oath" by W.M. Fawkes; it's a Legend of Sleepy Hollow retelling (yes, I'm reading them out of order--fight me).
["Ichabod’s head is on the chopping block…
And it isn’t the first time. The only son of a notorious pirate, Ichabod spent his youth scrambling to survive on the edges of society. Now, he’s shed his shame and his past to assume the position of schoolmaster in a small village on the coast of the Carolina colony. All he wants is one thing—security—but the ghosts of Queensfort have their eyes fixed on him, and if they can’t rest, neither can the living.
No one gets under Ichabod’s skin like Brom…
Brom Van Brunt has everything Ichabod wants—wealth, ease, and a face like a golden Adonis. If Ichabod resents his many advantages, who can blame him? While he fights to build a place of his own in Queensfort, Ichabod recognizes in Brom his greatest adversary. He vows to undo the rogue, but every move he makes against Brom brings him closer to understanding that Brom’s interest in him is anything but adversarial.
A headless horseman, starving for vengeance…
A prank gone wrong pits these enemies together against a fearsome specter out for blood, and if Ichabod and Brom can’t overcome their differences, heads will roll."]
How can a horror retelling me so sweet? How can the Headless Horseman bring two forever people together? How am I fangirling over something that...is so at odds with itself?
This book was almost pure fluff. If you ignore the dismemberment and specter and murder. It was enemies to lovers. It was already-in-love meets cute-but-clueless. It was happily ever after (in mostly one piece).
Fuck, honestly. This series has changed my mind about the horror genre (not that you'd catch me reading it any time soon).
Trigger Warnings: graphic violence, blood, classism, dismemberment, light period typical internalized homophobia, and more.
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