Author Writes Dark "Monster" Romance With Hindu God Male Lead | Drama React

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Sometimes you think you've seen it all.

[00:00:03]The weirdest ideas brought to life in a book, even though maybe it it shouldn't have been.

[00:00:12]This time, someone has written a monster romance using a god from an active religion. Let's talk about it.

[00:00:30]My name is Taylor Rose. Welcome back to my channel where we talk about everything reading and writing. So, Threads was in an uproar last week about an author who used a god from the Hindu religion, Shiva, as the male main character in a monster romance.

[00:00:52]Obviously, right off the bat, I'm sure you know why that is problematic. If you've been around the romance book scene for a while, you've probably seen how popular monster romances have become in the last few years, but typically they are not referencing religious figures. Let's just get it out there.

[00:01:17]Read Rant Review did a video on one of the books in this series, Morning Gloring Milk King Farm. Right. So, this is a one of the big monster romances with Aminar. So, the bullman creature from Greek mythology. There are also books like this one by Opal Rain where that's like a totally madeup monster.

[00:01:44]There are others like mermaid romances or alien romances. All of those fall under the umbrella of monster. But one thing that they have in common, duh, is that none of those are actively believed to be real, at least in any way that has religious significance to a large group of people, which is like kind of the big thing here. The first post that I saw talking about this was from a Taurus reads books who said, "I'm sorry, but writing a monster romance where one of the characters is a god that people worship Lord Shiva from Hindu culture and mythology and threatening to sue people over who criticized about it is not okay. I am so frustrated right now." And Castle Station responded, "Ging to write a monster romance, but the monster is just some carpenter with holes in his hands and a crown of living thorns named Josh." And I feel like a lot of people would be very upset by that. But if I'm being honest, I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that that exists.

[00:02:51]But I would be almost 100% certain, 99.9% certain that if a book like that existed, it would be written by someone who is from a culture who believes in Christianity. Right? I I'm not saying that like satire or satirical pieces examining, you know, the very real issues inside most modern religions are totally unacceptable or something. But I think as we get into this situation, you'll see that that's not what's happening. This person just took something that they probably thought was exotic and wrote out some weird fantasies about it. And so, of course, this post didn't really talk about who it was, but very quickly, I found another post on my feed by withered Alisia saying, "Gods are not smut material, period." This is just blatant disrespect to my religion and culture.

[00:03:49]Lord Shiva is literally the creator of the cosmos and for God's sake had to use it. Lord Shiva is married to goddess Parvati. How can you slander such a divine relationship like that? And I do feel like that adds something to the situation in that he is in a committed relationship. I mean drawing a correlation between other gods in relationship Zeus and Hara but like it's pretty established in mythology that Zeus is not a loyal partner. Whereas it seems like all representations of Shiva, at least as far as I'm aware and have been discussed in these comments, is in a committed relationship and not full of infidelity. Alicia continues and of course they use generative AI as expected. And you can see that they actually included who wrote this book.

[00:04:39]We have Arura Carlos SOS where you can see this image that you know definitely looks jini with these three godlike figures but the writing is in Portuguese which we will get into. In response to Wither Delicia's post, Hibiku Okodan said, "Yikes. I know Shiva is cool and all. I can't blame the ladies for being interested but he's devoted to his wife. If someone wants to do something like this, make up a character inspired by Shiva, not actual Shiva. Which while on the surface, I don't think there's anything wrong with that statement, I do think that potentially people would still be offended because depending on the portrayal, it could definitely be seen as a sort of mocking caricature versus just something inspired depending on how they're going to be describing things, etc. You you know what I mean? Like it's kind of like the issue with fanfiction turned triad pubed book. If you can tell that it was fanfiction of something else, people generally aren't happy. But if you can't tell, even though maybe there are some similar threads, hence the inspiration, people are more okay with it. If does that make sense? But yeah, Laella said, "We are devolving.

[00:06:02]OMG, religious gods shouldn't be written for NSFW or romance purposes, period.

[00:06:08]Yeah. And Wither Delicia chimed in, "OMG, so true." Especially the married ones. Like, they have a partner who they've been with for many eons. Yeah.

[00:06:18]Yeah. It is just I don't know. Not that there's anything wrong with smut, but you can tell when something was written specifically for the titillating scenes and not as like an homage to a love story or something. This was a screenshot last week of Carolina Silva's Instagram, right? Carol SOS. And you can see that her little description was romance novel author Aeros in the making. that was translated from the Portuguese. And so a lot of people were saying like, "Oh, this Portuguese author, like she's from Portugal, blah blah blah." But my friend spent many years of his childhood growing up in Brazil and had studied Portuguese for a while because of that. And so I asked him, like, I sent him this Instagram profile and asked him like, "Do you think she's Portuguese or Brazilian?" I don't know anything personally about the differences. I know enough to know that their pronunciation is different and culturally they are separate, but I couldn't tell you from listening, you know. But he sent me an informative video and said that he was almost certain that this author is actually Brazilian and previously it's no longer available, but there was a link to the book on Amazon.com.br Brazil. And then you could see that it was actually I think published by Amazon Services of Brazil, the company. So that kind of summed it up. Definitely she's Brazilian. But here is a closer look at the graphic that people were originally sharing. And it's just kind of funny because it's like clearly these are the same guy just recolored. One thing people pointed out is that the book is just about Oshiva, which I think people are largely believing is the guy on the far left, but then the other two aren't ever mentioned, right? So, obviously, a bunch of people were really upset by this, understandably. I don't blame it at all, but it definitely plays into the larger conversation around monster romance and being considerate in how you're describing and world building around this concept. I know there's a big conversation around specifically when these romances have male monsters trying not to describe them in ways that seem or ways that parallel a lot of racial issues in the real world. You'll see descriptions of different races of monsters that show parallels to, you know, negative descriptions of Native American people, um, black people, etc. Especially in terms of like cultural behaviors.

[00:09:24]I know it's common, especially in like alien romance. Typically the female main character is white or a white passing woman who coming from a more established planet going to a more rural type country like planet and then introducing them to technology that makes their lives easier and stuff like that. Kind of playing into like white saviorism. Definitely something that like people should be thinking more about as they create these worlds. I know there was one where the alien was described as being like really aggressive and dark and then his name basically sounded like the ins slur. I remember when that blew up. I think like a year ago, two years ago. Wild. You'd think you would have heard that, you know, but author Katie Robert posted a thread kind of like touching on this um where she said in this reminder that monster romance doesn't exist in a vacuum and if you're not thinking critically about the choices you're making every step of the way and that includes sensitivity reads then you're going to stumble into some foolery and some people are just going to dive head first willingly apparently.

[00:10:44]Author Vara Chitnes responded, "I had a Gothic Ram author chide me for pointing out that writing without a knowledge of the cultural context is harmful. Hindu gods exist in a specific set of phil philosophical themes. To overlook that and then come at me for conducting purity tests on literature materials is what I unhesitatingly call epistemic violence." And then Slea Snder said, "Not to mention that this is an active religion with billions of followers worldwide unlike Greek mythology." Which is a good point.

[00:11:13]There was one really long argument that I did not end up screenshotting because I could tell that this person was arguing this in bad faith, but there was one user who kept pointing out, well, what about Greek mythology? Like, look what people are doing with that, writing spicy stuff, subverting established storylines, etc. which, you know, while obviously Greece still exists and it has had a long-standing cultural impact on Mediterranean culture, I definitely think it is it is different in that it is not an active religion by any stretch of the imagination. It is so far removed from modern society that it is they're just stories now versus Christianity, Judaism, Islam, right?

[00:12:07]Those are very active. The Hindu religion, Shintoism, Buddhism, like people are still actively engaging in these religions wholeheartedly. So even if you're not a religious person, like I'm not a religious person though I was raised Catholic. Even if you don't agree with religion, you still have to respect that people are actively holding these beliefs in their lives wholeheartedly believing in them. And really, your only objection should come when they are, you know, controverting these moral lessons for harm. Um, such as what's happening in the United States currently with Christian nationalism, etc. That's not the case here, though.

[00:12:53]Uh, she just took an idea she thought was sexy and wrote some sex scenes in a book. So, a few more people outlined really what kind of is like the big issue with this. We have Book Monk who said, "Ladies and gentlemen, woke up to multiple threads regarding a Portuguese author. Apparently, this lady wrote a monster romance on Lord Shiva and the book is being marketed with tags like forced proximity, obsession, dangerous attraction, bot 18 plus." I generally need people to understand why this is upsetting. Lord Shiva is not a dark fantasy morally gray book boyfriend. He is literally one of the most sacred deities in Hinduism. People worship him.

[00:13:30]Women pray to Shiva to bless them with the right husband. And for so many families, devotion to Shiva is personal and spiritual. But somehow Hindu deities are constantly treated like aesthetic fantasy material which people can sexualize, exoticize, and maybe profit off of because our religion is seen as more of a mythology instead of something sacred. I will say personally I have never seen any other book like this, but that isn't to say it's not out there.

[00:13:58]You know, I I believe other people have probably pulled stunts like this before.

[00:14:03]But continues, "Please don't come up to me with it's just fiction. You need to understand people are still allowed to find it disrespectful, especially the community." Unsure what that is meant to say. um create a fantasy inspired by mythology, but do your goddamn research.

[00:14:18]Just don't turn a deity worshiped by millions into a possessive monster romance character. And honestly, if this exact thing was done with figures from religions people are more careful about offending, the reaction would be very different. Please do your research. I definitely think people from Abrahamic religions are a lot more vehement in their outrage regarding situations like this. Louise Jr. did specify.

[00:14:41]Unfortunately, it's not Portuguese from Portugal. It's Brazilian Portuguese. The young Brazilian author sadly lacks comprehensive knowledge and thinks anything goes in order to write something eye-catching. And it's isomer is Mrs. It's Isamirez. Sorry, I'm not trying to read that name. Um, they added, Brazil has many young and excellent authors. Please don't generalize. Unfortunately, this kind of thing has been written for authors only the whole world, and I'm left abyssed by their inability to even research the least about what they intend to write.

[00:15:12]It's still aggravating that many are not so young, which I mean, I think that applies everywhere. There are people of every age who are oblivious to the impact of some of the things they do.

[00:15:25]Bella Ara Correra did kind of support that statement, saying, "Hey, Angel, it was a Brazilian writer. Here in Brazil, we criticized her a lot last week, but the woman didn't even care. In fact, she threatened people with lawsuits.

[00:15:38]Besides, she played dumb saying that the criticism was because of the monster romance, which I'm not sure if they mean because it's a monster romance in general or she's saying just because she called it that. I I mean, I think her calling it that makes it worse, but I also think if she didn't call it a monster romance, that really wouldn't be any better. Fruity X did a good job kind of summarizing a lot of the translations from Carolina's page. They started this post saying, "So yesterday I scrolled down that author's page and screenshotted all the posts about that book so I could find someone to translate them for a mutual, which I don't speak Portuguese, but I do know enough adjacent languages that I can understand it without ever having learned Portuguese. It was apparently a good idea because she went private or something." Anyway, this is what I found. Also, fair warning, no matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. It is so, so much worse. Let's go by parts.

[00:16:35]The author appears to be a white Brazilian woman who has another white lady author friend who she makes AI generated videos with. Her use of Jai seems fairly recent, at least in the cover. She has an older book cover, which appears to be humanmade, but I could be wrong. Animalistic imagery and chaos are recurrent themes in her works.

[00:16:51]The tropes are hot, too wet panties, human/ divine being, dominant male, forced proximity, protagonist with two leehoos, and pregnancy. I don't even know what to say. Lol. Moving on. While obviously none of these tropes are like particularly egregious or anything, context is everything. Fruity continued, "The MC is called Briana Sinclair. She's 29 years old, 1.7 m tall, and weighs 95 kg. She was never kind to men who were interested in her before Shiva. She has a controlling mother and her all her former boyfriends tried to make her lose weight. And I'm pretty sure she's a self-insert for the author because they look exactly that effing same. Shiva is, in the author's words, a blue god with two who loves to dance. Betrayed by his exartner, he's never been involved with a human before. Wow. So, taking a committed what seems to be believed to be a loving marriage and then making it into a betrayal. Okay. He is the god of the end of transformation of chaos. He doesn't ask for permission. He marks author describing Shiva in a meet the characters post. In that same post, she introduces Vishnu and Brahma whose roles in the story are completely and wildly unclear to me because one of them is not mentioned anywhere else at all and the other appears once in a short AI generated comic where he saves her and her friend from a lion dragon or something by standing there. Um, so those were the other two gods in the one AI picture, but they weren't labeled and they don't seem to actually be in the book. So, Fruity keeps going. Now, the actual plot of this thing. The main character convinces her best friend to go to India with her to celebrate some sort of anniversary. They visit the Taj Mahal, and Brianna is trying to decipher an inscription on the wall without knowing she's offering her soul to Shiva. She realizes too late of what's happening. His scent drives her crazy.

[00:18:36]The desire between them is so strong that it trespasses any rule. And what starts as a forbidden encounter soon becomes much more. The book is dedicated to all the women who don't think twice before getting involved with a god with a hot blue god with two weoos. I get you. There's two thing about the marketing that stuck out to me. One, because of the AI generated, the depictions of the MC's vary, but in like two posts, the MC is a brown-skinned woman with curls despite being white in every single other post. It's just bizarre. This woman author is obsessed with divas. Woohoo. A big part of the marketing of the book is just that he has the two. She's even used AI gener generate not safe for work art that she will DM you if you comment how a day under one of her posts. They also like break into the Tajma hall. Like she posted this excerpt of a scene where the MC is like, "We'll stick to the wall and run. I'll go first. You come after. I'm pretty sure there's no one inside." And the friend takes two steps back with wide eyes and goes, "Have you lost your mind? You want to invade the Taj Mahal?"

[00:19:33]And Briana is like, "Technically, I want to visit." And shrugs and goes, "How I do it is not relevant." Okay, if you're unaware, the Taj Mahal is it was built by a a king for his queen who died, and I'm pretty sure they're both buried there. Uh, so why I don't know why some sort of weird heist needs to happen.

[00:19:53]Rudy continues. She also mentions that there's power dynamics, which you would think it's because, you know, he's a god and except they very clearly work in the opposite direction. Ashiva is apparently here to serve her. And for him, it is an honor to be in the presence of a woman like her because she's perfect the way she is. Every curve, every thought, every smile, and her beauty isn't something that can be compared or molded. She's unique and incomparable, which I don't know. I always roll my eyes when characters are like this even in romances. It's like I want them to be reasonable. I don't know. Also, Shiva apparently has invisible energy tentacles. Anyway, I wholly did this to myself when I volunteered to translate this garbage, but my eyes have suffered enough, so I'm going to go do something else now.

[00:20:32]Please go support actual Hindu authors.

[00:20:35]And a Bruna Trezian said, "So this is the depth she and her beta friend claim to exist if you quote unquote read the full book before criticizing it for fakes." Yeah, so deep. A nun art sits said, "Why has a lady want to break into a grave so badly? Was she just looking for loot? You can visit the Taj Maha like a normal person. Exactly. Is it to like make the main character more edgy?

[00:20:59]I don't know. You can see that now she has changed her profile picture. She's lost five followers. She's no longer following like 150 people, which I thought was interesting. And she's changed her description to romance author in progress, but obviously in Portuguese. And now everything is private. She also no longer has the book available in her little link. It's not link tree but like a link tree.

[00:21:30]Initially when people were very upset they did get the book removed from Amazon but it was back very shortly afterwards though clearly it was a new book because all the reviews were gone except for one that was speculated to be by her supportive friend. Unfortunately, since I don't know Portuguese, I can't really find any of the original posts where apparently she was threatening to sue people who pointed out that this was distasteful. But there were multiple commenters who appear to be also Brazilian who were saying like, "Yeah, no, we were on her case." So, I'm going to go ahead and believe them that they were on her case. I don't know. I don't know. It always kind of makes me laugh at how people immediately try and make certain topics or certain ideas sexual when I mean I personally wouldn't have made that leap. Like I know towards the end of last year there was an author who wanted to do like an ICE romance lawyers helping people at protests and stuff where they fall in love like and obviously that's different than religion but I was like how can you look at this political upheaval and be like but sex scenes wild? I would never learn about an active religion and be like you know what I could make from this? I don't know. I mean, maybe it's just me. I'm kind of approved.

[00:23:12]Who knows? As far as I can tell, it does look like the book is down for good and no longer available, which is a win, I think. I don't know. I've said it before. There are definitely just some topics that I don't think should be in a romance novel. Not that they can't deal with difficult or sensitive topics, but needs to be done in a sensitive way, especially compared to some other genres because you are, you know, not that all romance has spice in it, but when you are writing spicy scenes, you you need to think about like why is this connection necessary? Why am I able to sexualize this topic? This does make me wonder how many other issues like this have cropped up that just haven't made their way over to the English side of threads. Hopefully not a lot. Well, if you've gotten this far in the video, drop down a cow emoji for our morning glory milking farm reference. Have you seen any other questionable monster romances floating around? What do you think about the genre? Let me know down in the comments below and I will see you next time.