One popular romance trope is enemies to lovers, which often includes the ever-popular antihero. Heretical Love: Romance and Monsters and Saints Johann gravitates toward Florian, and the ending packs a punch that both left me fearing for Elendhaven’s future and all the innocent the people in it, while simultaneously using Johann’s word to describe his and Florian’s torrid relationship: adorable. Florian isn’t afraid of Johann as one should fear a monster he finds him flustering and, despite himself, equally alluring.
Johann finds Florian adorable (seriously he uses the term “adorable” on multiple occasions) in his primness, the way he dresses, and the way he nervously scoffs at Johann’s epic lack of murderous finesse.
Johann, who washes up on the beach as a child and grows up to be the stealthiest, most ruthless, and gleefully flirtatious monster in all of Elendhaven, likes the word “adorable,” which clashes against everything else in the story, but in the best possible way. In addition to fiendish evil schemes, troubled pasts, and epic revenge, romance and sexual tension ensues. While skipping and knifing along the streets, Johann discovers that a young noble named Florian is a sorcerer. Romance and Monsters: Adorabilityįor all the griminess, the oily setting, and night-kissed revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, the book also touches on adorability. Stay safe read what you’re comfortable with. Content warnings include: murder, self-harm, physical and verbal abuse, torture, scenes of war, body horror, and illness/plague. As we are taking about monsters, dark fantasy, and horror, the below examples include a multitude of violence and gore, and since we are discussing romance with monsters, some of the relationships are quite toxic.
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