“You can love a monster, it can even love you back, but that doesn’t change its nature. This isn’t Beauty and the Beast where my kiss would transform the monster to a prince. If anything, it’s Shrek, and his kiss brings out the ogre in me.”

—Eliza Crewe, Crushed

I love this quote. I went looking for something that said exactly this to accompany my monster and alien romance lists this week. Proof that there are no new ideas in the world, I found it!

I haven’t read this book. It’s the second in a three-book series that came out in 2014 and 2015.

Here’s the blurb for the book which gives us the great quote above.

Meda Melange has officially hung up her monstrous mantle and planted her feet firmly on the holy and righteous path of a Crusader-in-training. Or, at least, she’s willing to give it a shot. It helps that the Crusaders are the only thing standing between her and the demon hordes who want her dead.

The problem is, the only people less convinced than Meda of her new-found role as Good Girl are the very Crusaders she’s trying to join. So when a devilishly handsome half-demon boy offers escape, how’s a girl supposed to say “no?”

After all, everyone knows a good girl’s greatest weakness is a bad boy.

Have you ever loved a monster?