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When your monstrous boyfriend was thousands of years old, shopping for him for the holidays tended to be…difficult, to say the least. Because like, what did you get a guy that basically had everything?

That was the question haunting Noelle this Valentine’s season, but after a trip into a store run by Cupid, Noelle realized she already had the perfect gift all along…

Herself.

Have your wands at the ready and extra batteries handy, because this next trip to Grimlake with Krampus and Noelle is sure to leave you feeling a little…hot.

39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2023

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Profile Image for D.L. Howe.
Author 25 books603 followers
March 5, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

What this lacked in story it made up for in creative smut!

It’s V day but it was called something else, something with an L that I would never remember. Anywho, Noelle is under pressure because what will she get her newish boyfriend Krampus? He’s an eons old monster who has everything or can get it.

Yeah, the best part is what she gets him and how much he enjoyed it. Omg yum!

Sorry not gonna give it away, you’ll have to go check it out for yourself. It’s short so it’ll only take a moment.
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399 reviews30 followers
March 3, 2023
Monstrously exciting 🥵

This naughty novella was literally smut, some plot to get more smut and some more smut... I am not complaing, because this is what I come for (that's what she said) so if that is what you are looking for this one is ✨HOT!✨


Tags:
Paranormal MMC👻👹😈
BDSM ☠️👀🔝
ball gags/breath play😮‍💨🤐
restraints 😷🔒⛓
Dom/sub dynamics 👁 👅👁
Pegging 🍆🍑💦
Orgies😳🥵👥
Voyeurism and Exhibitionism👀🕵️🧐
Religious sacrifices🪔🕯🩸
monster smut👺👾🤤
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2,000 reviews330 followers
February 26, 2023
Noelle and Krampus are back and celebrating Lupercalia/Valentine’s Day with their usual super kinky sex, except this time Noelle is taking the reins! This fun and oh so spicy, and I loved every minute of it 🥵
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Author 1 book167 followers
February 11, 2024
Krampus and Noelle are back to celebrate Lupercalia/Valentine’s Day and this short little number made me realize why I originally fell in love with these two back in Grave Tidings book one of the Monsters of Grimlake series.

While this entire book was mostly smut, I didn't mind it because it was revisiting Krampus and Noelle and seeing where they are now after their relationship had really gotten started.

Nod to Salem Sinclair for the use of they/them pronouns. You don't really see that often and if you do it is very centralized in one specific chapter.

While I've only read the two books in this series, I know I will be continuing on because my monster lovin' heart is in heaven when Salem writes words.
Profile Image for Naiara Chiquetto.
207 reviews35 followers
February 25, 2023
(Arc review) ⭐️ 4,5/5

Noelle and Krampus are back to celebrate Lupercalia/Valentine’s Day.

Now they’re dating for a few months and Noelle needs to find out what to gift Krampus. Mas what can you give to a thousands years old mythological creature who already has everything?

The answer is experiences, of course, and in this case she purchases the “experience” in a cute little store, strap it on the bathroom and put it in his 🍑. 🫠

I love them even more this time around! Noelle is adorable and is collecting her own experiences. Krampus is so delicious and hot and gentle and cruel at the same time. I love this man’s mouth.

I hope I get to see more from this couple, but Grimlake has others interesting characters I wanna meet as well!

Quick and delicious reading.
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287 reviews6 followers
March 16, 2023
happy valentine's day 💘

I loved revisiting Krampus and his lady! This short was amazing. I can't wait for more! Also that ending was amazing! 🍆

5/5 ⭐ 5/5 🔥
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593 reviews5 followers
February 25, 2023
I got an ARC of this book the other day and I want to thank Salem for it because dude… this was so much fun.

I’ve been so blessed recently to be reading so many genuinely FUN books. This kinda stuff is why I love reading so much. I love the characters, the chemistry, the funniness, and all the sexy moments. Without getting too graphic or spoiler-y this was so a good time and I don’t think I’ve ever read a book with a certain topic like this book had. But oh was it such a good time 😈 also I love seeing the characters from Salem’s past books brought up AND the delightful creature at the end.
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550 reviews10 followers
February 26, 2023
Cute Monter Romance

Holy wow! Chapter 1 jumps right I'm with a delicious explicit scene. 😍 The author does not skimp on the details, and the opening scene/chapter was well-built. I also have no complaints in the way of character building. This short, quick read is packed with fantastic monster smut. The ritual celebration of Lupercalia was hot. I especially loved the representing of a person's chosen pronouns. This character has they/them pronouns, and I haven't seen much presentation of this in books. This was a cute, smutty read, but of course, always check the trigger warnings.
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817 reviews4 followers
February 28, 2023
I really enjoy these novellas. They fun spicy spicy reads! Can’t wait to see what she writes next!
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883 reviews120 followers
March 8, 2023
Loved the first book, didn't care too much for the second, this one was fantastic! Can't wait for book 4!
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327 reviews
March 7, 2023
In Stupid Cupid we get to revisit Noelle and Krampus for their Valentine's day shenanigans. This novella was quick and spicy. ❤️
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220 reviews3 followers
January 3, 2024
well that was…disappointing

the first one was so friggen good 😭
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243 reviews5 followers
March 9, 2023
So I loved this couple and adored their first novella. It was one of my favourites and I was left wanting more so this coming was sooo exciting for me.

Having read it, I was a bit underwhelmed if I’m entirely honest. The smut was perfection of course.. but I felt like I wanted more.. but the more I got was details like Noelle pulling off a puss filled pimple sticker. I know that stuff might happen, but I don’t feel like those are the details I want to be reading about in books tbh.
We had her go shopping for spicy toys, but we walk into the shop and all we then have is a chunk with the shop owner talking and not much else. We don’t see any of her thought process, what she does or anything. I know it’s so we get the final scene in more surprise, but to me that felt rushed and a bit pointless. She could have gone ahead and just ordered it online instead because we didn’t gain anything other then a random intro to this character who then makes a reappearance at the end.
I’d have liked to have seen more of the day to day of how Krampus and her are living, and getting on. It implies they’ve been practically living together since they met but we don’t see any of that. Even a paragraph more would have done. It felt like we spent more of the novella seeing every step of her getting dressed, hanging with her friends and going to that shop rather then seeing any development between Krampus and herself.

Like I say, I know it’s a smutty novella and there is only so much you can write in a short space - but the details we got just felt unnecessary and unsatisfactory to the story where my preference is to actually see more about what the couple themselves are doing and how their living alongside the smut angles. The three is there for the smut, which I did love… but maybe I had my expectations set too high with this, but awaiting a bit more from my favourite Christmas monster novella I was left disappointed.
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1,228 reviews20 followers
February 5, 2024
Stupid Cupid

HERO /HEROINE
Noelle wants to give Krampus a Lupercalia gift but doesn’t know what to give the monster who has it all.
Krampus is the same monster we remember, horny as ever.
OVERALL THOUGHTS
We’re celebrating Lupercalia with the gals and their monstrous men. Our main focus is on Noella and Krampus. BOY OH BOY, they are so fine.
But she hadn’t been expecting to find Krampus still bent over the bed, hooves spread wide and tail high in air as he stuffed almost his whole fist into his asshole.

“Oh? And that decision was all about the town and had nothing to do with those two men of yours? One in particular with his BBC?”
Yule asked, one eyebrow raised as she browsed through the sachets of herbs the kiosk was offering.
At my confused look, Yule mouthed, “Big blue cock.”
Ah, nothing to do with the TV station, Noelle realized.


FAVORITE QUOTES:
“I’m going to eat you up, little lamb. A tasty little feast, all for me. And everyone is going to watch you melt in my mouth, as you scream for me.”

SAFETY
SEXUAL HISTORY:
Noella and Krampus have been exclusive for a few months now.
CONDOMS:
No
TUMMY BUTTERFLIES:
3 /5 Krampus beggin' was beautiful
PUSH/PULL:
No
SEPARATION:
No
CHEATING:
No
OW (Other Woman)/OM (Other Man) drama:
No
SEX SCENE WITH OW/OM:
No
POSSIBLE PET PEEVES/TRIGGERS
Author given warnings
BDSM themes, ball gags, restraints, Dom/sub themes, pegging, breath play, orgies, off-screen ritualistic sacrifices of goats for Lupercalia, and gratuitous monster sex.

HEA/HFN:
HEA
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689 reviews49 followers
February 26, 2023
"𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕. 𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏, 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆.”

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Spice: 🔥🔥🔥
Tropes/content: MW, monster romance (Krampus/human), BDSM themes, Dom/sub dynamics, pegging, ball gags, restraints, public play, breath play
Series: Monsters of Grimlake #3

⚠️Check triggers⚠️

Noelle has been in a relationship with Krampus for a few months and things couldn't be better. They're getting ready to celebrate Luperacalia together and Noelle wants to buy Krampus a gift. But what do you buy the monster that has everything? Obviously a strap on that you want to use on him 😏

I fell in love with these two in Grave Tidings and this novella made me love them even more. I could read about them forever. I'm a such a hoe for Krampus. I love how he can be so dominating with Noelle, but he also has a soft side. I never knew I needed Krampus pleading and begging to be railed until this novella. That was truly life changing and made me feel lots of things 👀 I gasped at the reveal in the epilogue and definitely need more of their story!
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1,479 reviews441 followers
February 28, 2023
𝐼'𝓂 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓊𝓅, 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓂𝒷. 𝒜 𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓉, 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝑒𝓁𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓉𝒽, 𝒶𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒.

I loved these two in Grave Tidings, so it was great to see they were still hot and heavy for each other in Stupid Cupid. We get SPICE in the first chapter yes, please!

Noelle and Krampus have been exclusive for a few months now, and they are enjoying each other's company. They are spending their first Luperacalia together, and Noelle is at the coffee shop reading an article when she gets the perfect idea of what to get her boyfriend. Unsure if this is a good idea, she runs it by her friends, who tell her to go for it and take her to a shop so she can pick out the perfect one.

I am loving this world that Salem is bringing us with all the monster novellas. I can't wait to see what she writes next for this series.


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537 reviews40 followers
December 23, 2023
“𝑰’𝒎 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆.”



𝖂𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖊𝖝𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖙:


🩷 𝘉𝘋𝘚𝘔 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴
🩷 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘴
🩷 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴
🩷 𝘋𝘰𝘮/𝘴𝘶𝘣
🩷 𝘗𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨
🩷 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺
🩷 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴
🩷 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 $𝘦𝘹




“𝑰’𝒎 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒖𝒑, 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒃. 𝑨 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕, 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉, 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆.”


Love this continuation of Noelle's and Krampus's story. I loved all the smut and sexy scenes, but also all the sweet moment.


“𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒚 𝑰 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅. 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖.”


I love that there is more about Noelle's, Yule and Lumi's friendship. I loved their friendship and how all three are supportive of each other.



“𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆, 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒅.”


And that ending... I need more. And I will never look at Santa the same way.
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6,619 reviews237 followers
February 26, 2023
I really enjoyed this book. It was great to revisit with my favorite couple Krampus and Noelle. They have grown closer with one another. Their bedroom life is even hotter! It was great to see Noelle becoming bolder with Krampus. Which speaking of Krampus, I was a fan of his before but after reading both Grave Tidings and this book, I am even more of a fan.

Readers looking for their next monster romance or even trying monster romances for the first time, need to check out the books in this series. I guarantee that you will be screaming for more. I know I am. I devoured this book so quickly.
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216 reviews3 followers
August 13, 2023
Another great instalment to the amazing town of Grimlake

This starts off dirty and just gets better and better as it goes along, and can I just say for a short (40 page) novella, Salem does an amazing job at dropping in little nuggets of world building that just makes me love and want to live in Grimlake so much. Grimlake definitely has to be one of my favourite monster filled cozy towns. I loved this and I loved being back with Noelle and Krampus again, and I LOVED Noelle’s gift for Krampus.

Annnnd we got to see Etheridge again.. I loved him in BTTB and I hope he gets a book of his own one day.
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1,205 reviews59 followers
February 25, 2023
This is a spicy af check in with our favorite monster fkers, specifically the first couple of Grimlake Krampus and Noelle.

I highly enjoyed this fast paced short story of Noelle stumbling upon an article that gives her an idea to try some new thangs with her man...errr male monster lol

This was hot, funny, and we get to meet a few new residents. Cupid gave me Dr. Frankenfurter vibes.

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323 reviews14 followers
March 10, 2023
Stupid Cupid, keep picking on me

Is it just me or are these books getting better and better? I’m loving the world building bits that are sprinkled in and getting to see more about Grimlake and it’s inhabitants. And obviously, the monster smut is fantastic, but that’s no surprise. Salem Sinclair continues to spice things up with each installment and I’m always so excited to see what’s next!
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214 reviews23 followers
May 30, 2023
I absolutely love these monster novellas 🖤 they are short fun sexy spicy !!!

In this 3rd novella we have Krampus and Noelle who are still very much TOGETHER celebrating Lupercalia & what a freaking celebration… it was so good 🥵

Noelle wants to give Krampus a very special gift one that he would enjoy and DOES HE ENJOY !!!!

I enjoyed it this spicy fun novella so much and can’t wait for this next one ♥️
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391 reviews9 followers
February 26, 2023
A spicy short story involving Krampus and Noelle. If you read the first book of this series, here we’re back to the old characters and more kinks and discovery by them. Even in a short story, Salem manages to develop the characters… finding a new chapter of their lives, Noelle and Krampus build a relationship based in, not only sex and passion, but in trust in each other- and you could see this between the pages. I liked revisiting these characters and I’m excited to see more in Grimlake.
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3,533 reviews80 followers
February 27, 2023
Noelle and Krampus are back with something extra kinky just for Valentine’s Day. This time Noelle gets to give Krampus something extra special.

It was deliciously sexy, utterly steamy and super kinky. These two are adorable, sweet and have such fantastic chemistry that you can’t help but just love them.

I love these two and the delicious journey they continue to take us on.
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572 reviews163 followers
February 25, 2023
smutty monster smut

smutty monster smut - can be read as a stand-alone but I’ve been reading this series since grave tidings so it was nice to see some of Salem’s other characters.

quick and spicy
21 reviews1 follower
February 27, 2023
I enjoyed reading about Noelle and Krampus in Grave Tidings, and I liked seeing how their relationship had developed a few months after that book. I've also read the other Grimlake books and anthology stories, so I liked that characters from those stories made cameos in this book.
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551 reviews5 followers
March 24, 2023
Hot read

A really short read, and lovely for Valentine really, well if you think having coitus in a cave with multiple people is lovely or seeing a monster getting pegged (is this word allowed..) but the love is sweet.
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400 reviews7 followers
May 8, 2023
A nice lil continuation on the story of Krampus and Noelle! Not my favourite in the series. It was quite short, as were the smut scenes.. There were also a few crossovers in this novella, which was a nice surprise!
But I want more of Santa Claus and Cupid's relationship right now!!!
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261 reviews
June 14, 2023
2,5 stars

I've listen to some people complementing this novella but nah... this novella wasn't for me. The writing is too mediocre it didn't even turned me on, even when Krampus being submissive (I really LOVE submissive men) it didn't give me a thing.
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