Chosen by a Monster by Lylah Taylor

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He’s a monster. Dangerous and powerful. My body ignites when he’s near me, but crossing those boundaries could be the last thing I ever do. 

Sephina Rossi stands at the rift as an Offering. Prepared to take her last breath, she discovers the rift isn’t a death sentence—it’s a portal to another realm. There’s an entire world of monstrous creatures…and she’s been sold to one at auction.

Aurel’s plans have been derailed. He’s fighting for the future of his creatures, along with his own. The only thing that matters is putting a stop to the merger. A newly purchased assistant is the last thing he cares about—until he sees her walk in looking like  that.

Her presence threatens to distract him from his carefully laid plans…or could she be the reason he gets everything he never knew he wanted?

Chosen by a Monster

Gotta love the monsters!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 🙂🥰😎 😃😋

The heroine: Sephina – when monsters opened a rift between Earth and another realm, it wasn’t long before governments fell, and lawlessness took over. Though the monster’s proposed a trade. They wouldn’t take over the Earth, if they were given small batches of sacrificed humans. Sephina’s father had been on the edges of the mafia all of her life, but after the monsters came, his drug business picked up making her family instantly wealthy. Though her father didn’t have the supply to fill the growing demand and ended up spending a lot of money he didn’t have. To save his life, he turned states evidence against his mob clients, but that wasn’t enough for the government. In order protect himself, he made a trade. His pampered daughter would be a sacrifice.

The Hero: Aurel – he was a sector leader on the other side of the rift. He had planned to merge with Cresinda, another sector leader through marriage. The two of them have been having a secret romantic relationship for a while, but hadn’t yet announced their merger plans, when all the sudden Cresinda’s merger with a different sector leader, Kadrol was announced. Aurel planned to do what he could to help release her from that obligation, which he assumed her father had set up before his death.

The Story: Sephina was surprised when she didn’t immediately die after going through the rift; even more so when she was put up for auction, sold and she found out that Aurel now owned her. She was to be his assistant. Aurel was determined to find out what Kadrol was doing in his sector. Since every other sector had been seeing decreases in production and Kadrol kept boasting about how his sector was thriving. Aurel couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing, but he had a gut feeling Kadrol was up to something.

It wasn’t long before the attraction between Aurel and Sephina came to a head. Though Aurel didn’t believe in taking advantage of the sacrifices under his control, he couldn’t stay away from Sephina. When Aurel continues his plan to help Cresinda get out of her merger with Kadrol, things spiral out of his control, and he loses Sephina. The storyline is intriguing to say the least. The one thing I didn’t like about the story is when characters stupidly put themselves or others in danger and you can just see it heading for a bad place. That happened in this one, though of course everything worked out in the end.

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