Reading Roundup: The 24th week of 2025
Caught between a dead-end job and monster girls in a warm week of rereads!
It's been a hot week here, both in terms of weather and the pace at which things have picked up at work. SO I've only got one new thing on the shelf, and have hidden away in comforting fanfic rereads. The weather is continuing to stay warm (we're hovering around 30 degrees until Sunday here), and there's a lot going on outside the pages of my books, unfortunately.
4 stars to First Contracts: (Summoned by Monster Girls Book 1), by M. Tress
Book Description:
"Life hit Liam Cosgrave hard, like it has for a lot of people. Forced to work a dead end job to make ends meet, he barely had energy to do anything besides work and sleep. His life was basically just day to day survival. That is, until he was summoned to another world in a freak accident. Sitting in his truck after a fender bender on the highway, Liam was questioning whether something was out to get him. At that moment, events conspired to toss him to another world. Upon arriving, he met a pair of interesting young women who had been trying to summon a creature to act as a party member and protector, as well as a school project. Instead they got Liam, which was more than they had bargained for, given that humans were creatures of legend and myth in their world. He had no sooner agreed to work with these two when the same mysterious force that transported him there promptly reversed and shot him back to Earth, leaving him with a parting message that the girls would call him back soon. And thus, Liam's life trying to balance his day job and being summoned to another world started. After all, what sort of mischief could his girls get up to that they'd need a 'legendary creature' to get them out of it? ------------ *** Summoned by Monster Girls is a portal-fantasy, LITRPG, slice-of-life, men's romance, progression fantasy about a man who is summoned to another world, but still has to maintain a day job back on Earth to keep a roof over his head. It doesn't shy away from combat, blood, and mental issues, but also includes simply sweet things like an overly-cuddly miniature lamia and wolf-girl who loves head-pats. Along with plenty of romance and other interesting monster girls."
My Thoughts:
" It's weird, having a main character move between a dead-end day job and this whole fantasy world. The monster girls genre isn't where I spend much time, but although this lacking much in the way of explanation and having some weird demonology I still enjoyed it."
This Book: has 459 pages and a community rating of 4.62.
Things not on Goodreads or reread
- Heart and Soul, by Sillimaure
- Hindsight by Proton6
- The Venom Peddler, by LightningFuryStrike13
A collection of Hogwarts-era fanfics here, none overly spectacular or new to me, but I did enjoy the peddler a lot.