Book safety, content warnings, and tropes & tags down below.

“I don’t want to die, Gloam,” I whispered out loud, my voice soft and wobbly with terror. “I’m scared.”

Alright. Gloam and Rig time. These two dudes are just the cutest. This story is again completely different from the three books that came before it. We travel through the wastes while Rig tries to free Gloam, the monster with the tight leather pants and ass-kicker boots. They write really cute notes in order to communicate, and some of my favorite scenes from this book is just the ‘quiet’ evenings out in the wastes when nothing much happens, and they just get to know each other.

I was just… Rig. Not even Adam anymore. Just Rig. Good at fixing stuff. Good for a laugh. Normally, anyway. I didn’t feel much like laughing right now.

That’s not to say that the action-y bits aren’t awesome, because they really are. If you’ve read my reviews before, you might have an inkling about how much I love suspense and external drama, which really makes this series perfect for me. There’s not really a massive amount to say about this book, but if you’ve enjoyed the other books up until this point, I would expect you to enjoy this as well.

“Nasty habit,” Lilac commented flatly after a minute of silence. I snorted, reaching up to rub my eyes, my cigarette clasped between two fingers. “So is killing people.” “If I start to crave killing like you crave nicotine, everyone in this camp should be worried.”

Rig and Gloam just work really well as a couple, and sometimes they made me cry a lot. Other times they ensured I needed a cold shower. Holy hell they were hot together. Lily Mayne can write spice like very few others. Definitely a league of her own.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Fantasy
Dystopian
Monster/human
Raider camp
Rescue mission
Size difference
Power bottom,

⚠️⚠️ Content warning ⚠️⚠️
Captivity
Speciesism
Mentions of cannibalism
Severe injury and amputation (side character)
On-page killing
Graphic violence
Explicit sexual content
Slavery
Non-human genitalia
Mpreg possible for the monster species
(No mpreg in this book)

*Most of this list can be found on the author’s website:
lily-mayne.com

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Book safety ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Cheating: No
OM/OW drama: No
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, single POV
Genre: Fantasy/monster romance, M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Versatile
MCs age: 25 and 1000 + change

Wait, were humans apex predators? Maybe we had been, but I doubted we were anymore.

“Don’t make me get a boner while I’m kneeling in blood. Who knows what kind of kink could spawn from that.”