



Needless to say, it is a tale as old as time.īelle and the Beast, huh?. also, a very unique, ✨exceptional✨ male 'anatomy') and the virgin sacrifice that lacks fear and deemed to be cursed by the villagers. Second try!Ī Soul to Keep is one slow burn romance between a Duskwalker (imagine Elias from TAMB, furry body, wolf skeleton for the head and Impala's horns on the top. Okay, that is one of the most blasé reviews I've ever put out. the best monster romance I've read so far. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.īut will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever?Īs a fan of The Ancient Magus' Bride, you cannot not love this reimagining.Īlso, Orpheus is such a cinnamon roll. He'd thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.Įach decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster. Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village.
