A Tangled Web About Spider Hero Romances

Arachnid romances? An arachnid hero who falls for a dainty human heroine? An Internet controversy? The arachnid hero and the controversy both caught me in their web.

The cover for “Ensnared: The Spider’s Mate Book 1” by Tiffany Roberts. On the right is a hero who is a large alien spider-like creature with a dark exoskeleton. He is holding hands with a blond human woman who is wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Beyond them both is a large web.
Ensnared by Tiffany Roberts. (Source: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/r/tiffany-roberts/ensnared.htm.)

Meet the Monster Romance Genre

It’s all part of the hot “monster romance“ trend, which also includes alien romances. Many of these go far beyond Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians series. (I wrote about

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Anne Marble

I’m a writer and a copy editor with experience in editing science and engineering articles. Click Lists to find my most popular articles. And hidden gems.