Squeak by Vera Valentine
Published August 2022
★★★
Welp, I have another temporary Kindle Unlimited deal, and as it has become tradition for me to start one of those off with some of the odder romance/erotica floating around...here we go.
This isn't so much a monster romance as it is a shifter romance—something to do with an omegaverse (I do not know what this is and don't really care enough to find out, so...oh well). The heroes of the story have a fairly intense backstory involving being created by a kind of...wannabe witch?...for her own entertainment, escaping, and trying to find a way to make that escape permanent. Meanwhile, the heroine is an art student who thinks that if she goes to the zoo and only looks up at her subjects (humans who are visiting the zoo, not animals) every few minutes, they'll still be in the same place they were when she last looked at them...but I digress.
I found the story overall to be inoffensive but largely nonsensical, and the end to be rushed to the point where I have to wonder if the author hit fifty pages and thought "okay, that's enough now, I can just chuck in the outline and be done with it". I'm leaving it at three stars because it's on par with the genre as a whole and generally inoffensive (assuming that you aren't offended by the genre in the first place!), but it's one to be read for the novelty, entertainment, and not all that much else.
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