REVIEW: Boy Meets Monster by Leslie McAdam (Creepin U: Season 2)

BOY MEETS MONSTER

Creepin U: Season 2 Series

by Leslie McAdam

Release Date: October 1, 2026

Review

A meet-cute it was not. Being knocked down by a streaking frat monster is not the best first impression. Granted, Matt also has some baggage toward frat types.

But Caleb is determined to win over the cute boy. Or, better described as relentless. And Matt may be resistant at first, but he learns the true character of Caleb and is eventually won over.

Even when he discovers that the two frat rivals are rivalling over him!

I really like Matt’s growth throughout the story.

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Synopsis

Matt: Only I could end up in a love triangle between two people.

Caleb: Your geometry has a certain logic, given our circumstances.

Caleb: Except it can’t be “only” you since you’re conveniently forgetting the second person in this triangle.

Matt: I am not. You’re unforgettable.

Matt: I see you preening over there.

Caleb: What can I say? When you look as good as I do—

Matt: Hush, huldrekall. And by the way, no one’s going to know what a huldrekall is.

Caleb: Some will.

Matt: But for those who don’t, do you think we should tell them?

Caleb: No. Let them find out by reading the book.

Matt: Are you also going to tell them how you made getting me in your bed the subject of an ill-advised bet with your frat brothers? Or are you going to keep that from them the way you kept it from me?

Caleb: How many times do I have to apologize?

Matt: Once more.

Caleb: I’m sorry, love of my life.

Matt: Apology accepted.

Caleb: Other Alpha Claw Omega business goes to the grave, though.

Matt: Except when it doesn’t. There was that time when you had to streak across campus. Tons of people saw.

Caleb: It wasn’t that many people.

Caleb: Besides, babes, if you want my tail, you just have to ask for it.

Matt: Are you going to tell them about the book?

Caleb: No. They have to read it for themselves.

Matt: At least give them a hint.

Caleb: Fine. They can read the list of tropes.

Matt: You’re so generous.

Caleb: Don’t give away my secret.

You’re formally readmitted to Creelin University, known locally as “Creepin U.” The only things wilder than the monsters prowling around campus are the spicy male/male love stories unfolding between classes. Book one, Boy Meets Monster is a stand-alone m/m romance. This spicy novel is about a rich, cocky frat boy and a nerdy teaching assistant who needs lessons in confidence. Read it if you love a monster who takes one look at a human and says, “That one. I want him.” And then he spends the rest of the book proving that he’s good enough for the human. It’s part of the Creepin U: Season 2 collab series, and each book has a HEA.

Tropes:

Monster x human

Student x teaching assistant

Frat boy x nerd

Billionaire romance

Annoyance to love

Soulmates

Jealous/possessive

Anonymous connection online

A bet

Betrayal

Groveling

Slow burn

Plus:

Streaking

Lingerie

Makeover

Prehensile tail

Monster anatomy

Praise

Banana bread as penance

Crawling

Consent kings

About Leslie McAdam

Leslie McAdam is a California girl who loves romance, Little Dude, and well-defined abs. She lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small orange tree farm in Southern California with her husband and two small children. Leslie always encourages her kids to be themselves - even if it means letting her daughter wear leopard print from head to toe. An avid reader from a young age, she will always trade watching TV for reading a book, unless it's Top Gear. Or football. Leslie is employed by day but spends her nights writing about the men you fantasize about. She's unapologetically sarcastic and notoriously terrible at comma placement.

Always up for a laugh, Leslie tries to see humor in all things. When she's not in the writing cave you'll find her fangirling over Beck, camping with her family, or mixing up oil paints to depict her love of outdoors on canvas.

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