I picked up this book, A Soul To Keep by Opal Reyne, because the cover art reminded me of Elias from The Ancient Magus Bride and I was curious. I'm eight chapters in and I do believe I've bought someone's self published, filed off the serial numbers, Ancient Magus Bride smut fic.
I'm not mad, but what have I gotten myself into? There's six of these!
Again, to sway I'm obsessed with these books would be an understatement. The Duskwalkers are everything I could ever want. Ugh. When will it be my turn?
This was also my first foray into making my drawings into stickers. 😍
Orpheus is a top tier lvl book boyfriend in my opinion. 🤷♀️ I’ve been wanting to do some Duskwalker Brides fan art for a while because I’m a cinnamon roll monster fucker and it scratches all my itches. Orpheus and Reia. ❤️
This book is loosely inspired by The Ancient Magus' Bride and Demonslayer, which is why I picked it up! It was a slow burn, which I didn't like, but the story was really good. It had fast-paced moments surrounded by long periods of Studio Ghibli slice-of-life stuff (plus smut). This is definitely one of the better monster smut books out there-- It is evident that a great deal of thought and time went into this book. I think it could have been about 100 pages shorter, but other readers will enjoy the systematic approach to relationship-building. Overall, A Soul to Keep is a very worthy read. And no hate is intended toward The Ancient Magus' Bride because I did like it, but Orpheus is way cooler. =)
With the free time I had without my PC this week I got a lot of reading done and someone had the great idea for me to make sim versions of the characters I read about! This sim is based on Reia Salvias from A Soul to Keep in the Duskwalker Brides series by Opal Reyne, whichh I highly recommed btw.
How has the monsterfucker series I picked up as a joke become one of my top 10 book series? My to be read list is like 30 books long, all of which are supposed to be amazing, meanwhile I'm here devouring this story about a blind elf and a grumpy bull man falling in love.
Have some BIG SPOOKY MAN and his TINY HUMAN GIRLFRIEND fanart because this book series landed purely on a thing I enjoy and its animal skulls on people.
Things can be broken, Mayumi… You can’t apologise to a cup and have it fix itself, but you can work hard and pour value into it, making it better, stronger. It depends on what you’ve broken is worth to you.