Spread and Howl by Lilith Duvalier

spreadandhowl1l__05884.1428630598.300.450Title: Spread and Howl
Series: N/A
Author: Lilith Duvalier
Genre: Paranormal / Historical / Fantasy / Dark Romance
Length: Novella (120 pages)
Publisher: Evernight Publishing (April 10th 2015)
Heat Level: Explicit
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥ 3 Hearts
Blurb: Gardenne-Sur-Seine is an unlucky village. A monster known only as The Beast stalks the village by night, leaving bodies and widows in its path. Marius Lemarque, the village stonemason, has lost his family and his lover to this terror, and is determined to learn what The Beast is before he kills it himself.

Guillaume Bissette, the King’s Master of Hunt, also wants to find and kill The Beast. The King would like the head for his trophy room, and fulfilling the King’s wish will strengthen Guillaume’s position at court.

But when Marius and Guillaume join forces to save Gardenne-Sur-Seine from The Beast, they quickly find themselves entangled in a hunt that neither could have imagined, embroiled in a secret neither can disclose, and engulfed by a passion neither expected.

ISBN: 978-1-77233-324-4

Product Link: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/spread-and-howl-by-lilith-duvalier/

Reviewer: Lisa

Review: This is the first story that I have read by Lilith and I have to admit that it is a good story. It was however not for me. There was too much darkness and it just came off wrong. I am also not much for historical stories. I want happy stories with danger but this was not hitting the mark with me.

Marius knows that his village is in trouble. It is in the time where a king led but was not a good one. They have had a monster going after everyone and killing those he gets. They had asked the king for help but until the New Year they had been ignored. Now they have sent the Master of Hunt to help. The monster had killed his lover and he was not sure he wanted to go on. That ended when he met the hunter.

Guillaume was sent by the king to kill the monster and bring back its head. He had not expected to meet and actually be attracted to Marius. Things start to heat up with them both, but it is not what I thought or expected. Neither was the beast what the men thought.

I know that Marius was missing his love, but the way he took Guillaume was not right in my book. I was not impressed with that part of the story. It is a love story and you see it in the end but most of the time I was more confused than anything. It is a good story in its way.

If you like historicals and fantasy, then this is going to be your type of story.

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