Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: A bit
Perspective: First person from both the hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? A pretty balanced mix of both but maybe a bit more plot focused
When mains are first on page together:
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes
Format: listened to the audiobook from library (Hoopla)

Should I read in order?
This is book 1 of Graves’ Romancing His Stone series.

Basic plot:
Behind on rent and living in a mountain of debt, Julianna can’t turn down Titan’s absurdly generous payments to be her Daddy – though she didn’t bargain for him also being a gargoyle.

Give this a try if you want:
- monster romance
- contemporary setting
- gargoyle hero / human heroine
- child free couple
- sex worker heroine
- bit of a mystery/planned burglary
- bit of instalust
- size difference – heroine is tall, but the hero is very large in gargoyle form
- very protective hero
- higher steam – 8 scenes with kink (tail play/bondage, ,praise, Daddy/baby girl dynamics, spanking)

Ages:
- Heroine is 30, hero looks 40 in human glamour, but is over 600 ;)

First line:
Fat rivulets of rain flood the grooves of my granite back and drop off the tips of my claws and horns.

My thoughts:
I was not sure what to expect before diving into this one. I would have said I am not really interested in Daddy kink romance, but ummmm very much loved it!

There was something so amazing about how absolutely protective Titan is. So, so protective and always thinking about her and her comfort. He spoils her and I adore it. There’s something about watching Titan go from an absolutely brutal attack to protect the heroine to pampering her with the utmost care.

Julianna I loved too. She’s very adaptable because she’s had to be. And as hard as it was for me to read about her super toxic and abusive family, the comeuppance for them is so satisfying.

The world building here was interesting to me – loved the whole gargoyle gang Titan has going on 😂 I’m definitely curious about more from this world and would read more in the series when they come out!

Endearments

The hero calls the heroine ‘baby girl’ and the heroine calls the hero ‘daddy’.

Cock/Hero Stats:

- Gargoyle hero
- has a tail that he uses sexually – it has ridges
- horns and wings and claws
- his tongue is long and thick and pointed
- very well-endowed cock with ridges

Quotes/thoughts: (Any mistakes are my own)

“If you say you’re fine one more time, baby girl, I’m going to spank your ass red every night for a month.”
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“Don’t look at me that way.” Titan grinds out the words like each one is more painful than the next. It only makes me want to soothe him more.
“Like what?” I chew at the corner of my bottom lip and let my eyes drop to the floor before flicking them back up to his.
“Like you are giving yourself to me.” His voice is suddenly low and raspy. “Like you want me to devour you.”
“What if I want you to devour me?”

 

Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)

- abusive parents/family trauma
- violence on page
- mention of putting heroine under a conservatorship and abuse/take advantage of her
Author given content warnings: 

Titan contains depictions of violence, sexual situations, and a financially abusive parent relationship (mother) which some readers may find graphic or otherwise disturbing. The main characters engage in a consensual power exchange, the relationship in the story is not meant to depict real-life best practices. 

 


Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

“Soon enough, baby girl. I’m big, and you need to work up to me,” Titan rumbles in my ears. “And I told you not to move. Don’t make me tell you again.”

47% - 🔥 oral for her, dp with the tail (tail anally)

“I won’t be gentle.”
“Promise, daddy?” He lets out a low feral sound and I feel the firm bumpy pressure of Titan’s tail slide up my leg. It moves over my dress, between my breasts, til it finally circles my throat with just enough pressure to let me know his warnings were sincere.

64% - 🔥 bath tail play/penetration, throat play, bj (incomplete), sex against the wall (?)

“On your knees,” Titan commands, “and show me what is mine.”

73% - 🔥 hero masturbation

I press the soft fabric against my nostrils, and I let it cover my mouth and brush against my fangs. I bite at it, hoping to get one last taste of her, and breath her in again and again, begging her scent to smother me.

93% - 🔥 oral for her, tail bondage, sex against the wall

“Needy, needy girl,” he taunts me. “Tell me you didn’t miss coming on my tongue.”

98% - 🔥 spanking, her on top

“You took your punishment so well for me, baby girl,” he says soothingly.
He pulls me up onto his lap, holding me tight to his chest as he rubs his hand soothingly over my sore skin.
“Good girl,” he whispers and kisses me on the forehead.
I shift in his lap so my thighs strain to straddle him.