New Release Review: Desires of a Monster by Roe Horvat

06 December of 2020 by ButtonsMom2003

Desires of a Monster By Roe Horvat

Genre: Erotic Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Demon and virgin

Released: December 6, 2020

Publisher: Self-Published

Length: 186 pages

Cover Design: Roe Horvat

Synopsis

Submerged in ecstasy, blind with love… With every second we spent joined, I became less of my own person. Sometimes, I felt he was turning me into an extension of him, and if he ever ordered me to leave, I’d decay like a severed limb. Sometimes, I lay awake at night, empty inside, carved out and hollow, as if he’d already taken everything from me… As if I could only be whole while he was in me.

I didn’t know anymore if what I felt was love or insanity.

At nineteen, Rees’s life had come to an end. An orphan who loads ships for a living has no hope to die with dignity. Soon, he won’t be able to work, and then hunger might kill him before his illness can. He feels no fear or regret when he offers his body to the immortal Demon to consume.

Despite the colorful, terrifying legends surrounding him, the Demon is a practical and benevolent landlord. He finds joy in taking care of his estate, farming, raising horses, and watching the villages thrive. His only vice is seduction. He likes how human men crave, their warmth and scent, their primitive urges. He only lets his lovers stay for a little while. Human lives are transient after all, like shooting stars. Better to enjoy them while they shine brightly and send them on their way.

Until one day, a dying boy comes to the estate and changes everything.
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Desires of a Monster first came out as a short novella in the spring of 2020. This is the full story, more than twice as long, complete with Rees’s point of view.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

I couldn’t put this down!

This has been the week for me to read books that have left me nearly speechless and that’s exactly what Desires of a Monster has done. Roe Horvat writes the most delicious erotic romance. The heat level of his recent books has been off the charts but the emotional impact has been equally high in my opinion. Desires of a Monster hasn’t changed that at all.

The scenes in this book are graphic but they are balanced out with a fantastic storyline that captivated me and held my attention from beginning to end. At times I wondered how he was going to manage to turn a story that was so sexually graphic into a love story that was also quite moving. I never really doubted his ability to do it though and he came through with flying colors.

Other reviewers have done a much better job of describing the connection between Rees and the Demon than what I can do right now. Just read the blurb; it does a great job of describing the story. I’m only going to add that I’m so glad I read this beautiful love story.