A Monster In The Dark: A Dark Paranormal Stalker Romance Novella by R.K. Pierce
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
It’s easy to be afraid of the dark when the shadows are haunting you.
A Monster in the Dark
A dark figure has been following Jovie Rae Taylor for years, lingering in the corner of her eye, but never making its presence known. It bleeds into her dreams, turning them into nightmares, and makes her life a living hell, but at least it can’t hurt her.
At least, that’s what she’s always thought. But how will she feel when she finds out the shadow that’s stalking her isn’t much of a shadow at all?
A Monster in the Dark is a standalone paranormal stalker romance.
Shadow man!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💜❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 🤓😀😘☺️🥰
The heroine: Jovie – her mother was murdered by her stepfather; she was raped the first time she snuck out to go to a party and left unconscious on a frat house lawn. She attempted suicide by pills and slitting her wrists. All of that happened before the shadow came into her life. It would always disappear when she looked directly at it but she could often see it out of the corner of her eye, whether she was in her room or outside somewhere. She has a twin sister, Lennon, but never told her about the shadow. She attends college during the day and works as a piercer at a tattoo parlor at night, and she never told anyone about the shadow.
The Story: one day on her way home from work, she started to get a clearer glimpse of the shadow out of the corner of her eye. She could see broad shoulders and a black hood and though it disappeared when she looked directly at it, she knew it wasn’t just a shadow. She knew it was someone, which was as intoxicating as it was frightening. Later that night, when she looked in the mirror, she saw more than just the shadow and she was able to look directly at it.
The Hero: Aether – a being who is doing his time in Hell. For the last three years since Jovie’s sorrow pierced through the darkness, he has been stalking her as a shadow entity from behind the veil between Hell and Earth. Every time she acknowledges him or thinks of him, he gets closer to breaking through the veil separating the worlds and claiming her as his. He has been starving for her for too long and now that she really saw him, he is getting close.
“I wanted to devour her, destroy her.”
“My cock thickened at the thought of slowly ruining her, using what was left of her essence to sever my soul from Hell. It would only take one mortal, one disposable human to break the bond and set me free from my millennium old curse, and I would enjoy every second of it.”
“Soon, Jovie Rae Taylor would be dead and I’d be free of my curse.”
I really liked this story; it was fairly short, but it was different than anything I had ever read before. Aether was a different kind of paranormal entity than I have ever read about in the past. Of course, I do love stalker romance and he was quite a good stalker. The book was way too short, and this story could have been much more, but it was pretty great for what it was.
Being that Aether was from Hell, he dreamed about doing things to Jovie that were just wrong on every level, like doing sexual things when she while she fought back or when she couldn’t fight back, and when she was unaware. Though he also planned on killing her and eating her soul as a way to break his tether to Hell, so he was a pretty bad guy. Though I liked the fact that he had a change of mind at one point and I did like how the story progressed.
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