I feel terrible about this because I received an ARC copy which I am incredibly grateful for. The book itself is decently well-written and engaging despite some parts feeling slightly cringy at times, but I just don't think I'm in the right head space to be reading a book like this at the moment.

My main issue is honestly the content warnings. I've read a lot of dark romance and monster romance and I can comfortably say that not much gets to me but I feel like the warnings at the beginning of the book don't fully express the extent of the contents of the novel. The warnings listed can be applied to what is in the book so it's not as if they are incorrect and misleading, but I definitely was not prepared for sex slavery and the notion of camps from warnings like "kidnapping," "forced captivity," and "breeding." If you're going to have themes like that I think it should be expressed explicitly as such stating terms like "slavery" or things that will let people know that there are multiple women being forced to breed (I thought the breeding in the warnings was just a breeding kink). Because of this, it was incredibly hard for me to get into the book at all.

Another issue I had was the relationship between the monsters and the humans. Obviously, this is the main theme of the book but my biggest concern was the treatment of the half-humans. Outside of infiltration and military purposes, what role do they have in monster society? How are they treated by the other monsters? Are they accepted as monsters as well or are they just seen as more humans to use to their advantage? I understand that they're also needed because there is a shortage of female monsters but they weren't really talked about as active members of society outside of the gang issue. Hopefully, this is something that would be explained later in the book and please correct me if I'm wrong but I feel like it was just going to go overlooked.

Any other issue I had with the book is personal preference and again I just don't think I'm in the right head space to read a book like this at this time but it was really hard for me to care about either of the characters or the plot. I got to chapter 10 and realized I just didn't care about what might happen.