3.5 stars
This was super fun and lighthearted (and very focused on the steamy factor). A different kind of Lily Mayne book, but a fun time nonetheless! Concept: super fun Plot/Pacing: a little repetitive Romance: adorable and filthy Impromptu Match is the first in a nostalgic, 1980s-ish old-school pageantry-wrestling monster romance series. Yeah, did you get all of that?? That series of words is a lot to take in, but it's accurate and I wanted to make sure we all started off on the right foot. Lily Mayne is known, or at least known to me, as the writer of intense, somewhat angsty, post-apocalyptic MM monster romances that I've read and some equally angsty fae romances that I have yet to read. She writes extremely well-paced and engagingly plotted stories with softboi romances at the core of darker tales. So this... lighthearted wrestling sexfest was a departure from the norm. NOT an unwelcome one, but I did want to state for the record that I come from Mayne's more serious fare and, honestly, would have skipped over this book if not for the author byline. I think that a new readership to Lily Mayne will love this story. It's soft, it's fun, and it's not here for a deep time—just a really fun one with lots of steamy fluff wrapped up in a wrestling bow. Because I came from Lily's more serious fare... I found this one really easy to put down due to the lack of higher stakes. This is NOT the fault of this soft, happy novel. More a reflection on who I am as a reader and what I'm looking for (cough cough, that drama). Come for the softboi-in-love vibes, stay for the iconic wrestling outfits and hilarious antics of this hidden monster community!
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