3 My Love Stars ⭐️
Spicy Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5

If you're expecting a literary masterpiece in a book whose title is "Guarded by a Spider", you're pretty deluded. But if you want something "fun" with a few legs or two... or eight... This will be a great pick!

𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙤𝙥𝙨𝙞𝙨:
This is a Dual POV that follows Nia’n’an and Sloane. Sloane has been kidnapped by some mysterious organization and is presumed dead. Nia’n’an believes he's going to die because he hasn't found his mate; so as a last-ditch effort to return to the home of his ancestors while still seeing if he can be useful, he is hired by the Monster Bodyguard Company to retrieve Sloane's body.
However, when he gets close to where she's being kept, he smells his mate. It turns out that his mate is none other than this human Sloane and she is very much alive.

𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨:
I haven't read many monster romances. So, I'm not sure if this is exactly what to expect in a monster romance or if it's just what I have previously seen in like the only other monster romance I have read. Basically, once Nia’n’an finds his mate, his intelligence seems to disappear and he is lowered down to the basic primal needs of:
- She is now my love.
- I love her.
- I protect her.
- I make her happy.
- And I need to procreate with her and make her my mate.
Basically, he goes full cavemanspider on her...

I think what I liked about Sloane and the dynamic between the two is that Sloane has the mouth of a sailor and she's fucking petrified of this spider creature who has come to save her. But the two of them develop this cute little way of communicating and the two form a sweet little unusual friendship. BUT she also feels the effects of the mate bond, SO IS incredibly horny so the only release is humping a spider with two penises for some gratification. I love that Sloane was feisty and almost snappy and just babbled whatever she was thinking. It was also cute and sweet how caring and generous Nia’n’an was because all he wanted to do was take care of her.

This is not a very complex story. There are a lot of questions that I have unanswered that just get brushed past and I'm not sure if it's just because the world is already established, that they are not touched on... or if it's just the way this story is...

It is NEVER EXPLAINED:
Don't read these if you care about spoilers

- Why his mate is a human? Like this has never been heard of and the reason why is not actually explored.
- THAT IF monsters are so prevalent in this world, WHY is Sloane is so shocked to see a spider person??? Sure if you had never seen a monster before but they seem to be pretty integrated into the world soooo her reaction to their meeting was weird.
- Why HE DIES but then doesn't... Like there were the slight inferences he was shedding but was that REALLY IT?
- How they have babies besides this "special" formula but like... HOW IS THE BABY BORN, is it a spider? Like a hybrid human? WHAT CREATURE DO THEY MAKE?
- If her relationship with her Father is mended or not... Like giving you a potion for babies and seeing him once does not a mended relationship make...
- WHY if it took him like a day to find her in the cave, did it take like 3 weeks to exit?
- HOW is she happy living in a house that is 50% cobwebs? LIKE WHAT???? Ew.

It felt like Cassie Alexander left so many things open-ended and it didn't sit well for me. It was almost like she wanted to tell a story of a woman who has slight Stockholm syndrome and develops attraction to a Spiderman. They have kinky sex that at times I was moving my head "confused puppy style" to figure out how it happened. Like I still don't know how logistically they coupled together. I just accepted that they "came together" in some way and did things...

𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨 and 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤 𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨:
▶ Dual POV
▶ Forced Proximity
▶ Monster Romance
▶ Tending to Injuries
▶ Dressing Help - HE MAKES HER CLOTHING
▶ Bodyguard Romance
▶ Mine
▶ Fated Mates
▶ Instalust and Instalove
▶ More
▶ DVP and DP (He has two of them)
▶ Virgin MMC

Overall if you are looking for a quick monster read that seems to be what Monster Romances are like (at least the one other I have read), I think this is going to give you exactly the relief to that itch you want to scratch.