The Demon

Monsters and Beauties #4

by Jenika Snow

I ran from one monster, only to stumble into the clutches of another.

Fleeing a brutal father and a forced marriage, I escaped deep into the forest, hoping to disappear.

Bleeding, exhausted, and desperate, I hid in a cave—but I quickly realized I wasn’t alone.

Something watched me from the darkness.

He was massive, horned… a creature pulled from nightmares.

And the moment his glowing eyes locked onto me, I knew one thing without a doubt. I was his.

Now, I was trapped in his lair, claimed by a beast who refused to let me go.

I thought I was running toward freedom.

But I only ran straight into his arms.

And I was even more terrified, because… I didn’t want to leave.

Genres: Fantasy, Monster Romance, Paranormal, Dark Romance, Novella, Monsters, Romance

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 24, 2025

About the author

Jenika Snow is a USA Today Bestselling Author, and has been a published writer since 2009.

She can be found at:

www.jenikasnow.com
FB: www.facebook.com/jenikasnow
Twitter: twitter.com/jenikasnow
Email: Jenika_Snow@yahoo.com

Reviews

[Kellyythoralabatalla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creo que hasta ahora este ha sido el más soft de esta saga. Estuvo lindo (dentro de lo que cabe) y demostrando que hasta los demonios tratan mejor a las mujeres.

En fin, ✨Dios, patria, familia y monogamia.✨

[Soft Nectarine ~ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Girl escapes from bad to worse when she stumbles upon a sexy cave demon 😈 short & smutty monster romance!

Geraldine & THE Demon were a STEAMY pairing! It was a great combination of size difference, horn kink (that’s a new one!) and did I mention he is double endowned!!! Jenika always delivers on the super smuttiness 👏

I did think the characters were a bit one dimensional. I knooooow it’s a novella but their communication felt a little too much like “I Tarzan. You Jane.”. That being said….I will never stop reading these.

monster romance
virgin fmc
fated mates
alt anatomy
horn kink
cum play
🍑🍑
HEA

Thank you to Jenika Snow for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

[Danielle's · Rating 5 out of 5]

Monster smut at its best. The Demon is the fourth book in the Monsters and Beauties series. It’s a short novella which can be read as a complete standalone.

Geraldine is in need of a hero to save her, but that isn’t what she finds. Deep in a cave away from her controlling father she meets something unearthly. He doesn’t lie but his truth isn’t what Geraldine wants to hear. That doesn’t mean what she’s offered isn’t what she needs.

This is one hot 🔥 🥵 read that can be read in one sitting. Its available in KU just like the other books in the series.

✅ Fated mate
✅ instant connection
✅ erotica
✅ Monster love with two *sticks
✅ Virgin heroine
✅ Novella

[Christina (stinarinareads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty much quick monster smut. The MMC demon started to dirty talk a little too much like a modern dark romance MMC sometimes LOL. I did appreciate that the plot, such as it was, gave a full circle moment. It was like a little character arc speed run. 3 stars!

[cali]

This is the most Jenika Snow novel I’ve ever read the blurb of



AND I’LL EAT IT UP EVERY TIME

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nasty filthyyyyyy monster romance about a girl escaping a forced marriage into the hands of a demon with two schlongs & only wants to protect her. Things could be worse 😉

Type: ebook
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

[Mary · Rating 1 out of 5]

Vine en busca de cobre y encontré una piedra. Malísimo, lo cual es una pena teniendo en cuenta los otros. Sé que tiene como 50 páginas, pero ¿de verdad hacían falta 50 páginas de clichés cutrones y frases repetidas hasta la saciedad? Estoy harta.
De hecho, creo que voy a dejarme el monster romance porque últimamente todo es una putísima mierda con los mismos dos argumentos llenos de "tropes" y frasecitas regurjitadas de tantas veces que se repiten. Fue bonito mientras duró.

[Melltbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

doble deck? doble satisfacción🚬

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and to the hot horny (pun intended) point 😈
Love this series to infinity

[Bojana's Library ❤]

Pišem ovo na srpskom jer moram da citiram Zoricu Marković:
E sad stvarno pušite kurac...


"My little hybrid" - jedite govna, kako li ga je rodila?????? HAHAHAHHAHA

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

“ She had been a lost princess. Now, she was mine.”

3 ⭐️’s
4 🌶️’s
just the like others, this is short and sweet and oh so spicy! this demon sounds like a lot of fun with velvet, onyx skin, spiraling horns (sensitive & made for her pleasure as well) and two appendages! i’d say this novella was split pretty evenly between our FMC’s point of view, Geraldine, and the Demon’s. however, i think i’d like it a little more if there was more of Geraldine’s POV while intercourse was happening & during the Demon’s fight with her assailants. overall, i just wish it was a little longer … because i was loving this couple.

read if you like …
😈 monster smut
😈 interesting peens
😈 “horny” business
😈 double penetration
😈 fated mates/mating
😈 protective/possessive MMC
😈 novellas

[Sixella MK · Rating 5 out of 5]

Small Business BookTok ARC Reviews: “ The Demon” by Jenika Snow

Note: This ARC was given to me for free by the author and I am reviewing this book voluntarily.

After escaping her abusive father and fiancé, Princess Geraldine flees into the woods to avoid being taken back to her kingdom by the royal guards. Little does she know that in doing so, she will come face-to-face with an unexpected ally—a mysterious supernatural entity she had only heard about in stories… and her fated mate!

From the author of “The Beast”, “The Hunter”, and “Primal” comes the long-awaited fourth installment in Jenika Snow’s “Monsters and Beauties series”! I cannot emphasize enough how Jenika Snow was one of my first introductions to both the Dark Romance and Monster Romance genre. While her previous installments serve as dark retellings of “Beauty and the Beast”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, this novella is a completely different concept that almost veers into Paranormal Romance territory! I can’t reveal too much about this spicy narrative and the tension between Geraldine and the titular entity, but I will say this—this story would definitely give Darkness from “Legend” a run for his money! Ready to dive back into the world of “Monsters and Beauties”? Then don’t miss this book when it hits online shelves on February 24, 2025!

Rating: 5/5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice Meter: 5/5 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

Tropes to Expect: Runaway Princess x Supernatural Entity, Fated Mates, Dark Romantasy, Monster Romance, Evil King Antagonist, Revenge Narrative, and “Touch Her and Die” Narrative.

Trigger Warnings: Mentions of Abuse by a Parent and Partner and Blood & Gore.

[‹betts› ⚜ — (catching up with revs) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3⭐ / 4🌶️
[📱] ebook

— vibezz
👹 monster romance
🏰 instalove
👹 mates

mini blurb — ✍🏻
Geraldine escapes from his father and his machination just to fall in the hands (or claws) of a literal demon.

//

A fast and filthy read just exactly as the other ones in the series by Jenika, I kinda wished it was longer and detailed hehe~
What always love about this genre is how we have a liter demon with hoofers, onyx skin, HORNS, and 2 sticks (yeah) they're always portrayed as the one that will do literally everything for his s/o, so caring and protective. I awww-ed a lot. 🥹✌️

[KayTheBookLover · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're in the mood for a super quick, super spicy monster novella, then grab the Demon by Jenika Snow!

This one has double the spicy tools, if you know what I mean!

Read this if you like
♥︎insta love / mates
♥︎ "Take it all,"
♥︎ less than 100 pages
♥︎ "No one will ever hurt her,"
♥︎ Double the pleasure, double the fun.

Overall ☆☆☆☆.5/5
Spice ★★★★★★★★★/5

[Eva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Four horny stars; also, live for a revenge carried by a scary monster.

[Eleanor · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 ✨'s

[｡.•*¨*•♬✧maeve ✧♬•*¨*•.｡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

⭐️3/5 well, this is as smutty as it can get!!

⛧°。 ⋆༺♱༻⋆。 °⛧

🌶️5/5 please review the trigger warnings!!

⛧°。 ⋆༺♱༻⋆。 °⛧

monster romance novella
virgin human heroine
size difference
double pp monster;)
captivity
claw play
slight blood consumption
etc.

⛧°。 ⋆༺♱༻⋆。 °⛧

i recommend if you need a quick, taboo read💗

[klinta]

very me tarzan, you jane but he has 2 dicks so

[Trinity · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌶🌶🌶.5/5

TW - captivity (of FMC by MMC, brief), blood consumption, blood, pregnancy, graphic violence, gore, murder, domestic abuse (briefly mentioned, not between the MCs), physical / emotional abuse (from a parent, mentioned), manipulation (past, mentioned), alcohol consumption, misogyny (not by the MMC)

CW - DP, cum play / cum eating, breeding, biting, marking, hand necklaces, breath play, unprotected sex, voyeurism, very light blood play

Tropes - size difference, insta lust, paranormal, erotica, fated mates, dark-ish / light dark 😅

Representation - plus size FMC

This was a short and smutty read that I’d recommend to anyone into monster / paranormal romance, in a book slump, in need of a palette cleanser, who just wants some smut or all of the above

Scale:
⭐️ - would've DNF'ed / continued out of spite
⭐️⭐️ - shit, but whatever
⭐️⭐️⭐️ - meh, could've been better
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - lit 👅
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - loved it, inject this shit into my veins 🤪

🫑 - no smut
🌶 - no point
🌶🌶 - mediocre at best
🌶🌶🌶 - standard smut, hot
🌶🌶🌶🌶 - 🥵 okay, some CW
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 - fuck me 🥵🥵 CWs / filthy with a side of filth - see Poison / Room Twenty-Two: Hide and Seek/ The Naughty List / The Naughtier List

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Demon by Jenika Snow

“There are monsters in every darkened corner of this world.”

Happy Release Day to The Demon by Jenika Snow!

This was a short but spicy book. It starts off with our female star running from her father and his guards. Her father wishes to use her as a pawn and marry her off to an abus!ve man. She runs through the forest and into a cave belonging to a demon.

One look at the female and he knows she’s his mate (which is a rarity among his kind.)
He decides to keep her and after some pretty words and spicy actions, she agrees. They spice begins and y’all.. he destroys her enemies for her. It’s hot.

There were some moments in the book where I was like “not my kind of thing.” The licking the bu++ scene was definitely not my thing but to each their own.

Oh and I forgot to mention.. he’s got 2 peens.

4/5 Stars!

[Kate V · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 smut-scale stars!

Geraldine finds herself running into the forest to escape the fate her father has planned for her. In doing so, she runs straight into the arms of a literal demon. This beast may resemble a human but he definitely isn’t. Complete with two peens, a skull like face, red eyes and horns…this monster holds nothing back and will do anything for his newly found mate.

“You belong to me, Geraldine. But I belong to you as well. My kind rarely find their mate. They are rare, but they are absolute when fate gives her to us. And now that you are here, I will never let you go. I can’t, for that would be akin to ripping out my organs and feeding them to the next beast.”

Short, smutty and classic Jenika. Kind of wish it had been longer 🤷🏻‍♀️. I really enjoyed the short build up to their coupling and their relationship development would have benefited greatly from a full length story. However, if you’re just looking for a quick and filthy monster romance I’d suggest picking this up.

[thebeespot72 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve read most of Jenika Snow's books, even her taboo ones, which are only available on her site. I’m pretty familiar with her writing. When I reach for her books, I look for something specific—smut, and Jenika always delivers. The Demon is a fast-paced story filled with nothing but one steamy scene after another. It's a “monster romance” when the characters connect instantly, and you just kind of roll with it because it’s a smut-driven story. And for a smutty story, it’s a pretty good one.

[Kayla Lodge · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐️ I enjoyed my time reading this. There may not be much to the story but it is still really enjoyable and it is also just spicy enough to give this book an even better story. I am never disappointed by the stories in this series and I am sure that I will like the next one just as much as the rest of them.

[Lia · Rating 3 out of 5]

¿Por que correr enmedio del bosque perseguida por los guardias de tu padre que van a lastimarte y entrar a una cueva se siente la mejor opción?
Porque lo es... sabiendo que has encontrado a un demonio que lo único que quiere es protegerte y cogerte sin parar.
Libro rápido... me ha encantado el epílogo

[INeedABookBreak · Rating 5 out of 5]

A short, fun, dark and spicy monster romance!

[Alexia · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,25/5⭐️

[★♡︎SweettLov3♡︎★ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cuarto libro de la saga

Casi no conecte con la historia bueno los personajes, me impresiono la anatomia de Demon y me fascino la ferocidad con la que protegia a su compañera y su bby...♡♡♡

[valkyreads_ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't want to talk about it, but he has two appendages. And dear God send me a monster because men currently ain't cutting it.

[Julieta Vera · Rating 2 out of 5]

(2,5)

[jess ♡☾ · Rating 1 out of 5]

gun to my head i would legit still not re-read this book, ✌🏽🪦