I picked up a copy of Lillian Lark‘s Stalked by the Kraken as an Amazon freebie. It’s book one of the Monstrous Matches series. However, I somehow read book two, Deceived by the Gargoyles, over a year ago.
The Witch
Celibacy is a bad look for a matchmaker.
Especially a matchmaker who works at the kind of paranormal bathhouse that would have grandmothers clutching their pearls.
A worse look is a matchmaker experiencing a crisis of confidence.
I am that matchmaker.
We need raw magic, desperately.
And now a mysterious man walks into my office, offering me the exact solution I need.
The problem is that he wants to be matched… with me.
Matching doesn’t work for me; I found that out the hard way.
The Kraken
I saw her and the creature inside me wanted.
She doesn’t want a relationship. She says that the most we can have are the three nights she promised me, but the dark part of myself isn’t going to let the woman who snared its attention go.
I found her. I hunted her. She’s mine.
I’m not always in the mood for a sweet read. But when I am, I trust that Lillian Lark will deliver. The MC definitely falls first in this one, which I liked. I also enjoyed the fact that he was smart, capable, and kind but also sort of an idiot. She was wounded but showed a lot of growth throughout the book. The sex was pretty hot and very sex-positive—lots of consent throughout, which I appreciate. But there were one or two transitions (decisions made by Rose) that made no sense and pushed the bounds of credulity. But this was easily enough overlooked. I did think the plot was pretty thin outside of the budding relationship, though, which was a little disappointing.
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