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Captured by the Cupid: A Valentine's Gargoyle Romantasy by Emily Shore
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This is book 2 in Emily Shores Roars and Romance series and is a Valentines Day themed retelling of Psyche & Eros meets Beauty and the Beast. This book is a romance wrapped in dad joke level puns with its own built in playlist curtesy of one of the characters Ero's jester and sometimes partner Crescendo. If you're looking for a fun and quick read for February this will fulfill all your cupid's arrow, chocolate loving, flowery love song needs.
We follow the FMC Aradia the pink haired, feisty, aura seeing psychic, who's more ghost friend than hunter as she visits a haunted church and somehow slips into the lands of purgatory where a stoic and heartless gargoyle Eros catches her and imprisons her with the intent to use and return our lovely pink haired heroine to the mortal world but Aradia's sweet, fun-loving and up for anything attitude win over the stone hearted god in the end along with several other characters.
3.5 chili peppers 🌶️ on the spice scale.
Genre: romantasy/monster romance
POV: Dual
Ending: HEA
We follow the FMC Aradia the pink haired, feisty, aura seeing psychic, who's more ghost friend than hunter as she visits a haunted church and somehow slips into the lands of purgatory where a stoic and heartless gargoyle Eros catches her and imprisons her with the intent to use and return our lovely pink haired heroine to the mortal world but Aradia's sweet, fun-loving and up for anything attitude win over the stone hearted god in the end along with several other characters.
3.5 chili peppers 🌶️ on the spice scale.
Genre: romantasy/monster romance
POV: Dual
Ending: HEA
My Spice Rating - 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
1 🌶️- May include hands, more kissing, "fade to black" scenes. No open door spice.
2 🌶️🌶️ - Spice happens, but it isn't often. May include open door scenes but they're infrequent or rare.
3 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Spice happens more often and it is more detailed, Spice is part of the plot, or the book is 50/50 spice to plot.
4 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ - More spice than plot, may contain kinky themes.
5 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Absolute smut. Very little plot, sex heavy. The spicy scenes are very explicit, may contain triggering or dangerous themes, Dark romances and erotica.
1 🌶️- May include hands, more kissing, "fade to black" scenes. No open door spice.
2 🌶️🌶️ - Spice happens, but it isn't often. May include open door scenes but they're infrequent or rare.
3 🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Spice happens more often and it is more detailed, Spice is part of the plot, or the book is 50/50 spice to plot.
4 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ - More spice than plot, may contain kinky themes.
5 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ - Absolute smut. Very little plot, sex heavy. The spicy scenes are very explicit, may contain triggering or dangerous themes, Dark romances and erotica.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Cursing and Violence
Minor: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
This is a dark romance/fantasy and many of the trigger warnings and themes have to do with kink related scenes, sexual scenes and trauma to do with both of the main characters background. I tried to pick what could be listed as well as I could, for full list of trigger warnings please see the authors website.