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Dark Paranormal (Vampire / Demon / Monster)

The Musician and the Monster: A gothic Beauty and the Beast retelling (Ever After)

Amazon Bestseller · #37 in Fairy Tales
Megan Van Dyke

Book 1 in the Ever After (Megan Van Dyke) series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A gothic Beauty-and-the-Beast retelling where a musician's curse hides something far stranger than a fairy tale. Atmospheric, slow-burn, and unafraid of its own darker edges.

At a glance

The Musician and the Monster is a dark paranormal romance by Megan Van Dyke. With 2/5 for spice and 3/5 for darkness it sits mid-range for dark paranormal romance (of the 852 dark paranormal romance books on Readark, 19% rate lower for darkness and almost none lower for spice). Its tropes include slow burn, forbidden romance and morally grey MC. It runs to 457 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Book details

Pages
457
Published
May 2024

The Musician and the Monster spice level

The Musician and the Monster is rated 2/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: brief and fade-out, meaning scenes begin on the page but stop short of explicit detail. Its darkness rating is 3/5: genuinely dark, meaning violence, coercion or captivity drive the plot, not just the mood. How we rate

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