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Monster’s Obsessive Hunger
She enters my forest with nothing but grief in her throat and a lantern in her hand.
I mimic her mother’s voice to lure her deeper—but it’s not her fear I crave. It’s the sound she makes when she tells a story. The way her voice trembles when she thinks she’s alone. The hush of her breath when I step out of the shadows and show her what I really am.
She should’ve screamed. Run. Burn the woods behind her.
Instead, she kneels.
Now, I’m starving in a way I’ve never known. For the warmth of her body. For the pain in her past. For the human girl who sees the bones of me and still dares to touch.
I’ll never be soft. I’ll never be safe. But I will learn to love without breaking her.
Even if I have to starve to prove it.
She thinks she’s here to study the monster.
She doesn’t know she’s the cure the curse’s been hunting for.
Read on for obsessive monsters, bite kink, trauma-fed devotion, and a cursed creature learning to worship the woman who saves him. HEA Guaranteed!
I mimic her mother’s voice to lure her deeper—but it’s not her fear I crave. It’s the sound she makes when she tells a story. The way her voice trembles when she thinks she’s alone. The hush of her breath when I step out of the shadows and show her what I really am.
She should’ve screamed. Run. Burn the woods behind her.
Instead, she kneels.
Now, I’m starving in a way I’ve never known. For the warmth of her body. For the pain in her past. For the human girl who sees the bones of me and still dares to touch.
I’ll never be soft. I’ll never be safe. But I will learn to love without breaking her.
Even if I have to starve to prove it.
She thinks she’s here to study the monster.
She doesn’t know she’s the cure the curse’s been hunting for.
Read on for obsessive monsters, bite kink, trauma-fed devotion, and a cursed creature learning to worship the woman who saves him. HEA Guaranteed!
169 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 11, 2025
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September 21, 2025
'I take a step closer, a risk, but I need her to see as much as hear. I need her to look at the glow and understand. “I remember nothing of what I was before the curse. Nothing of the elf I might have been. My existence is a long, unbroken stretch of gray. But your stories, your voice… they are the first color I have known in centuries.” I pause, the confession a raw, vulnerable thing. “Because your voice makes me feel… less hollow.”
She is a cure for an ailment I didn’t even know had a name. She is the antidote to my own nothingness.'
I absolutely loved this book. Great world building and wonderful characters. I found the premise fascinating, and this story meant more to me emotionally than I expected going into it. I loved both Lyssa and Thorrin. I liked the dynamic between them and loved the way their relationship developed. She never gave up on her mom, but instead found a tortured and lonely monster. I liked that he was willing to open up and be vulnerable to her, because what she offered was precious to him.
While I've read countless books by Celeste King, this is my first by S.R. Meadows and I thought they did a great job together. I hope they team up for more! 5 stars
She is a cure for an ailment I didn’t even know had a name. She is the antidote to my own nothingness.'
I absolutely loved this book. Great world building and wonderful characters. I found the premise fascinating, and this story meant more to me emotionally than I expected going into it. I loved both Lyssa and Thorrin. I liked the dynamic between them and loved the way their relationship developed. She never gave up on her mom, but instead found a tortured and lonely monster. I liked that he was willing to open up and be vulnerable to her, because what she offered was precious to him.
While I've read countless books by Celeste King, this is my first by S.R. Meadows and I thought they did a great job together. I hope they team up for more! 5 stars
September 11, 2025
This was a very touching emotional monster romance story that's about Lyssa who lost her mother to the forest five years ago when the trees took her, so the townspeople call her a cursed child. Lyssa's been determined to find her mother who she believes is still alive. This year she's been hearing a voice call her name every night, so she answers it and now it also sings a melody, so she enters the forest to explore it carrying an oil lantern. Thorrin our monster has been watching and listening as Lyssa talks and has developed an obsession, so he draws her in to his lair using her mother's voice. When Lyssa sees Thorrin she flees, but Thorrin knows her curiosity will bring her back. What occurs as Lyssa returns determined to find answers was an engaging story. The characters were wonderfully depicted, and the storyline as Thorrin is looking for that special someone who would break the curse on him kept me turning the pages. Is Lyssa the one? I'd volunteer to read and review this copy I'd received.
January 18, 2026
monsters obsessive hunger
Thorrin was human once, now he is a predator. He has fed on flesh and blood, but Lyssa is different. He calls to her with her dead mother’s voice. She answers the voice from her window finally but no response .
Lyssa has been broken by her mother going missing. It’s been five years but she can’t accept she is dead, the townsfolk pity her.
She finally goes into the forest following her mom’s voice calling her name. Thorrin doesn’t crave her flesh anymore, it is the sounds she makes. The soft cadence of her voice.
Lyssa calls mother in a clearing, but Thorrin steps from the shadows. Eight feet of terrifying skeletal mass, exposed bone and sinew, with a heart that burns with cursed light.
Read to find out what happens to them, there is a lot to understand and overcome for them both. There is a HEA.
I enjoyed the story, it pulled me into their world.
Thorrin was human once, now he is a predator. He has fed on flesh and blood, but Lyssa is different. He calls to her with her dead mother’s voice. She answers the voice from her window finally but no response .
Lyssa has been broken by her mother going missing. It’s been five years but she can’t accept she is dead, the townsfolk pity her.
She finally goes into the forest following her mom’s voice calling her name. Thorrin doesn’t crave her flesh anymore, it is the sounds she makes. The soft cadence of her voice.
Lyssa calls mother in a clearing, but Thorrin steps from the shadows. Eight feet of terrifying skeletal mass, exposed bone and sinew, with a heart that burns with cursed light.
Read to find out what happens to them, there is a lot to understand and overcome for them both. There is a HEA.
I enjoyed the story, it pulled me into their world.
September 12, 2025
Lyssa has been unable to let her mother's disappearance go and it's been five years. Then she hear her mother's voice. She has to know. She heads into the woods and there finds a waira.
Thorrin is a waira. He feeds on emotions but there's something different about Lyssa.
This behind a journey that will take two different species onto a single road . There will be hurt and and but they will follow the course.
Will they be able to accept each other as they are or go separate ways.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Thorrin is a waira. He feeds on emotions but there's something different about Lyssa.
This behind a journey that will take two different species onto a single road . There will be hurt and and but they will follow the course.
Will they be able to accept each other as they are or go separate ways.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
October 17, 2025
oddly beautiful
I wish I could leave it at that instead of having a minimum word count.
If you’re looking for exciting, this is not it. I don’t know if there are different stories that explain this world in more detail, but this reminds me more of an old style fairy tale - not one that’s been prettied up into something clean, but a classic with blood and a price paid for beauty.
I wish I could leave it at that instead of having a minimum word count.
If you’re looking for exciting, this is not it. I don’t know if there are different stories that explain this world in more detail, but this reminds me more of an old style fairy tale - not one that’s been prettied up into something clean, but a classic with blood and a price paid for beauty.
October 5, 2025
Everything was going so well with this book until about 55-60% It became constant repetition and became almost unreadable. By 85% I was mostly only reading dialog which I NEVER do!! Thorrin all the sudden became the most self loathing whiniest monster I’ve ever read about. Just all around awful after 50%
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November 7, 2025
4.5 - again not sure why I liked this one so much could have been longer but the enemies to lovers trope always gets me
November 25, 2025
awful! 😒
December 4, 2025
interesting plot but I couldn't get past her hooking up with a skeleton monster. kissing his "skull-face" ? not 4 me
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December 18, 2025
Good Paranormal Romance
If you enjoy a good story with an unusual ending but still good all the same then I would recommend reading 📖 this story.
If you enjoy a good story with an unusual ending but still good all the same then I would recommend reading 📖 this story.
January 9, 2026
I had so many questions and none of them were answered. This book has so many holes and too much going on with no real description. There were so many times I was left wondering how things were possible or couldn’t get a mental image of what was going on. I want to be immersed in a book, not sitting there trying to solve it like a puzzle.
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