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- Content warnings: Violence, Blood, Graphic violence, Death, Gore, Captivity, Trauma, Animal death, Body horror, Sexual content
The Witch and the Monster
by Chelsea Starling
Book 1 in The Eddanor Chronicles
Witch sacrifice meets wolf shifter monster, short and feral, ends mean.
goodreads 3.84/5 247 ratings
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Length265 pages
Series statusOngoing series
Spice4/5 · Passionate / intense
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Fated mates
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Medium burn
- High
- Passionate / intense
- The swoon
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- Shifter alpha
- Possessive love interest
- Rough / primal
- Tension finally satisfied
- Monster
- Protective love interest
- Possessive / claiming
- Feral brain activated
- Beast / monster
- Captor/captive
- Primal / feral style
- Obsessed
- Cursed
- Only soft for them
- Dirty talk heavy
- Book hangover incoming
- Possessive alpha
- Predator x prey
- Dominant vibes
- Secretly soft
- Jealous/possessive during intimacy
- Growling / possessive sounds
- Marking hickeys
- Rough but consensual
- Scent kink
- Wall pinning
- Possessive
- Marking
- Claiming
- Bonding/claiming/marking
- Size difference
- Primal play (hunting/chasing)
- Monster romance elements
- Rough/aggressive intimacy
- Praise kink
Fantasy promise
- Monster romance
- Forest / wilderness
- High fantasy
- Werewolves
- Shifter romance
- Small town / village
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- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Shifters
- Cottage / cabin / homestead
- Gothic
- Witches/wizards/warlocks
- Captive romance
- Monsters
- Beauty and the beast
- Rescue romance
- Interspecies romance
- Magic bond
Reading experience
- Dual POV
- Medium
- Dark
- Atmospheric
- Moderate
- Witch/mage
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- MC 20-30
- Sacrifice / chosen to die
- Intense
- Soft/gentle
- Magical
- Emotional
- Survivor
- Sensual
- Feral
- Yearning
- Sacrifice for love
- Cursed bloodline
- Enchanted forest
- Bargain with consequences
- Haunted castle
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Book details
- Length
- 265 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book