Rating: 4 Stars

Publisher: E.M. Lindsey, Cora Rosa

Genre: Gay Monster Romance

Tags: Fantasy, First Times, Opposites Attract, Romance, Sci-Fi – ish, Series

Length: 472 Pages

Reviewer: Cindi

Purchase At: Amazon

Blurb –

When portals from another world split open the sky, humanity braces for war… only to discover the monsters from Erethar aren’t here to conquer. They need something from humans. Something oddly specific in order to survive.

And that’s when the government begins recruiting for a ritual that sounds a lot like a cross-dimensional booty call.

Normally an exclusivity contract with a monster called Rathyn of the Dark Vale would be a hard pass, but the more time I spend with him, the more I realize there’s more to this whole monster/human thing than what the government is telling us.

I want to believe it’s nothing more than an arrangement, but the way he melts under my touch, and the way he’s constantly seeking more, makes me believe that maybe his fate is wrapped up in my own.

It’s no longer about what I can do for him.
It’s about what we mean to each other.

I’m Everest Hale, and I’m doing my part to save the world with my… Well, I’m not at liberty to discuss, but let’s just say it’s given with vigorous enthusiasm.

You’re welcome, Earth.

Suck is the first book in the MM Monster Romance series Feed and Feast. It contains a clueless human who’s just looking to do his duty for humanity, a naïve monster who has no idea how much humanity will change him, so much sucking, swooning, antagonists to lovers, cuddling as a love language, body piercings, secret romance, and a toe-curling happily ever after.

Review –

I was his first human. And he was my first monster.

Where in the world do I even start? I’m a fan of both of the authors, with each one having books on my favorite books of 2025 list. This is WAY off from what I normally read, but I took a chance, and here I am. I ended the book still not knowing how I feel about it. My apologies if my review is all over the place. The book was all over the place.

As the first paragraph of the blurb states, portals pop up all over the world, bringing aliens slash monsters slash whatever the Vyastil are. Apparently, they need semen from humans to survive. I don’t know that the actual reason they need the semen is explained. If it is, I don’t remember. There were quite a few things that I feel needed to be elaborated on that weren’t.

When humans turn twenty-one, each male has to register on a government portal to commit to providing that semen once a week in a medical facility. The semen is provided orally while said human is locked down on a chair while the monster slash whatever gives him a blow job to end all blow jobs.

I should also point out that we’re not talking one orgasm. We’re talking multiples, which is made possible by a certain herb that’s given to the humans. These monsters need more than what one measly orgasm can give them.

Everest has been excited about the program since he was fifteen. His best friend Zane, not so much. Zane is monster-phobic (is that even a word?) or whatever kind of phobic one is who hates the monsters who have invaded Earth. Everest signs up, does orientation, then sits for his first appointment. The first thing his monster – whose name is Rathyn, and will be called that from here on out – does is insult him by complaining about the size of Everest’s penis. He demanded a bigger one, damn it. 😉

“We compliment each other-”

“Your cock is small but very well made,” he says.

“Oh my god,” I groan, throwing my hands over my face. “We try not to insult them in the process.”

No matter. There’s no time to get a new human, so he gives Everest a mind-blowing blow job, and then freaks out a little.

One, Rathyn wasn’t exactly expecting Everest to taste good. Two, apparently humans, even twenty-one year old horny men, take way too long to recover without the above-mentioed herb.

Before Everest has even had a chance to process what happened, he’s being ordered to come back the next day instead of the next week as the contract states.

Very long and drawn out story later, Everest signs a contract to be Rathyn’s paid companion. There’s something really weird going on between human and monster when it’s discovered that they can talk to each other via their minds.

Yeah, not weird AT ALL.

Against Zane’s advice, Everest moves into Rathyn’s fancy place and they begin a really odd relationship. Things start happening with Rathyn’s body that he thought could never happen. He’s getting aroused, and is able to do things his people had long banished or tried to banish.

Rathyn is Rathyn of the Dark Hale, the military commander of Vyastil. Everest is just a horny twenty-one year old young man who survives by working at a hot dog stand (aka meat market, according to Rathyn) in a failing mall. Their connection is real, but neither really understands what’s happening. Everest knows when he falls in love, but love isn’t something Rathyn is supposed to be capable of.

The telepathy thing ends up helping them while hurting another character. I can’t say how without giving a spoiler.

No one warned me that if I spent too much time with one human, I would start to hear him in my mind. That he would hear me. That I could close my eyes and he would be there.

That I would want to mark him as mine.

Something is wrong. Something has gone awry.

The next book is Taste (Feed and Feast, #2), Cielo and Dante’s story. Cielo is an occasional Vyastil bodyguard for Everest, but he also becomes a friend. Dante is a human who owns the local sex shop.

There are other characters, of course, who need their stories as well. This includes Zane and Quilliyn. There’s also Eissa, who is a father figure of sorts of Rathyn’s. I’m more curious about him than any of the others.

There is a jerk of a prince who I really hope never has his own book. I can’t see myself liking him even a little bit. He was a pompous ass.

While I liked this well enough, there were some things that didn’t work for me.

The reader learns very little about Vyastil. I know more will come out later, but with it being so long I expected more.

Which brings me to that… the length. I’ve always said no book should be 450+ pages unless there’s world and character building or it’s written by Stephen King. That (not the Stephen King part, obviously) would definitely apply to Suck had there been more actual world and character building. There was so much in the middle that could’ve been cut, in my opinion.

There were too many chapters in Everest’s POV and only a couple in Rathyn’s. No offense to the authors, but Everest was not the interesting character of the two.

At around 70% I was pretty much over it, which was bad because that was when the main action started to happen. As much as I hate to say it, I had to push myself to finish it. I don’t remember ever pushing myself to finish anything by either of these authors.

The book is quite silly, to the point I found myself laughing at things that probably weren’t meant to be funny.

So, what to expect if you read this?

Lots and lots and lots of blow jobs, the overuse of the words cum and cum banks, and Everest often acting younger than his age. There are also good monsters and bad monsters and a hierarchy that’s pretty disturbing, meaning not much different from probably every country in the world.

I really liked Rathyn. It was entertaining watching him try to learn human ways and our phrases. I liked Everest well enough, but Rathyn was the star of the show, so to speak.

The sex was… different, and I’m not referring to the oral sex. Think the occasional penetrative monster tail and self-lubricating monster penises.

I loved Eissa, Cielo, and Dante. Zane was okay, but there wasn’t enough about Quilliyn to form a real opinion. The epilogue is in Cielo’s POV, which absolutely broke my heart. As much as I want to read his and Dante’s story, I’m hesitant because it’s so long. I’m not sure I can sit through 574 pages of woe-is-me-I’m-not-worthy that no doubt will come from Cielo. I’m not saying he’s a bad character. Just the opposite, honestly, but so much dragged in this one that I’m not quite in the mood for more of the same in the second book.

Overall, it’s an interesting take on what amounts to not much more than monster porn with a little romance and drama thrown in. Had it been shorter, I’m sure my rating would have been higher. I’m giving it 4 stars because it was a nice enough start to a unique series. I just wish Rathyn’s world and people would’ve been explained better.

“No other monster will have you, little human. You are mine.”