Isabel Crowley
Sourcebooks Casablanca
11 August 2026
384
eBook - EPUB
Romantasy
ARC via NetGalley
Hazel Lewis has a serious problem. The guy who hired her to conduct a seance before he died turned out to be a serial killer with a demonic contract, and the seance itself was a trap. Hazel escaped with her life, but not as she knew the bite of a demon is spreading through her body, letting the supernatural bleed into the world around her, and the now-dead serial killer is waiting to take over her body if she dies.
Hoping to contain the damage, Hazel moves to a small house in a remote location. She figures she'll stay on her own until she gets a handle on her new dark reality, but she soon finds out that she's not alone. There's the reporter demanding answers, the friendly neighbor with chemistry she doesn't need and problems he can't talk about…and the mysterious face she sees beyond her window, watching her every night with glowing red eyes.
Making her hunger.
Hazel knew a little bit about the world beyond the physical. Now she's learning how much she doesn't know, including who she can trust...and who she can become if she trusts herself enough to give in to the shadows stalking her dreams.
Want Me, Take Me, Haunt Me, Make Me by Isabel Crowley was a fairly typical romantasy that ticked many of the trope boxes. I liked the idea behind the plot, which was a little different than other romantasies I have read recently. However, as stated, once it kicked off, the tropes lined up and it was fairly easy to guess how things were going to go from there. For fans of the genre looking for a book to hit all their favourite themes, this one will certainly be a big hit, but at the same time, there is a sense of having read it all before, so nothing in the story really took me by surprise or added an extra level of excitement. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it though. The action moved at a good pace, and Hazel was a character it was easy to get behind and who developed throughout the course of the story. Overall, I am giving this one 4 stars. It is a solid romantasy read for fans of the genre, but, for me, it didn't have anything that made it really stand out from the crowd in a genre that is pretty saturated of late.
I received this book as a free eBook ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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