A review by railway1721
Molly and the Minotaur by Bea Gallo

funny mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

 The girl who nobody wants ends up with the prize bull of the town, but its more than just romance in this little town.. It's weird Appalachian shit.

Overall reco: I think it's a worth while read if you are into the Monster romance genre. I noticed 2 errors in the book that caused some confusion but it was great after that. Enjoyable and quick.

"You've got a little drool."
"Fuck you."
"Only if you're feeling up to it."


Plot: 3/5
Spice: 3/5
Characters: 3/5

(The good)
I highly enjoyed the sass from both the FMC and MMC. They were prickly and gave as good as they got and there were some great lines and banter bits that had me kicking my feet with amusement. The plot was interesting, like.. it wasn't just 2 people who were fated mates and doing their best to get on each others nerves, there was shit going doing that was actually interesting. I guessed one of the plot reveals really early on, but that's fine. The world seemed interesting and I didn't struggle to get into it.

(The bad)
So, for a book about fucking a minotaur.. it had kind of low spice. I was expecting more scenes. Some of them were pretty hot but usually my monster fucker books are like 5/5 spice and this was just 3 because of lack of scenes.
The miscommunication trope of this book pissed me off. It's not the typical trope, where they just don't understand each other. Their communication was fine (and good!) it was how they fucking drip fed the FMC information. She's supposed to be here to save this fucking village and while I understand keeping some shit hush hush, she was kept in the dark purposefully about things that didn't need to be. Like maybe it was to not overwhelm the girl the stumbled into town, but they kept saying "you are taking this surprisingly calmly" and the author kept making a note to tell us how Molly felt like she was home. So you can tell her some SHIT my guys.
Another thing. Yeah the town is cursed but like..
it sort of never really felt like we saw that? Yeah she mentions some thing but it wholly felt like a 'not big deal' and while a huge plot point kind of also felt like NOT?

It had an HEA but..
it felt like the story just kind of ended unfinished. I get that there is another book in the series but this can be read as a stand alone and I felt rather unsatisfied by the way it ended. I'm really not sure I'm going to pick up the next book.