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A joy to read from cover to cover. It starts with dark mood, like a monochromatic painting but it slowly, gradually starts to fill in with colors as the characters evolve from strangers to lovers. 

Uses a slow start to develop environment and location but ramps up in an intriguing adventure made on luck and wishful thinking, along with a healthy dose of make-or-break thinking.

The Fealty of Monsters is an engaging read with plot points that seem simple at first before spinning you around as it turns you on your head. It's gnarly, grisly, and a love story to the ugly promises and justifications that people will make for the betterment of the society they want. It's an ode to the tapestry that monsters are just the distorted reflection of humans like you or me.

The Cradle of Eternal Night was a story that explores the dichotomy of surviving and living. Two people who go through life through its motions before connecting unexpectantly between a life's resignation for a seemingly hopeless journey and the lonely wait for a person held dearly to reach back. It shows that even a surprise meeting can shift your resignation from just surviving life to wanting to experience all that life holds; it just need a reason, a someone, to guide a new path through the empirical darkness.

A story about reclaiming the bits and parts of yourself that society deems wrong and unforgivable. That it takes one person to rekindle the love you had for yourself even if you weren't ever ready for it. A single person to change who you are for the better, to love yourself, and willing for you to accept yourself even when you couldn't. Acceptance comes from a place least expected.