Ghoul by Layla Fae [Review]

Ghoul (Dark and Twisted #1) by Layla Fae
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: November 27, 2025

Dark and Twisted
1. Ghoul - Paperback | Kindle

Layla Fae
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

The hunt has begun and I am the prey.

The newspapers call him Ghoul. He is a serial killer responsible for murdering countless female victims.
They say he eats human flesh. Bites off chunks of bloody tissue with his inhumanly sharp teeth, his eyes flashing white in the dark. They call him a monster, a demon, a beast.
Some claim he isn’t human.
So when I walk in on Ghoul standing over another victim and licking her blood off his knife, I don’t stop to think. I run.
And Ghoul gives chase.

Thoughts on Ghoul: This book is a little darker than LF usually writes and...I liked it? Yes, I liked it. Sure, it wasn't the fluffy, food-adjacent bodily fluids fun I was used to, but it worked for me.

So. Ghoul is...well, he's a serial killer. He kills people. And Holly is a lady teetering on the edge. She's existing more than living and her stepfather has her in a bad place (this isn't any sort of step-romance, btw, he's physically and emotionally abusive and she can't escape him even though her mother is no longer around. Which is a whole other story, honestly). When Holly stumbles over Ghoul's latest kill, she should have been just another statistic. Instead, he's intrigued.

She's also intrigued. Their interactions are bloody and a little brutal, but she can't stop thinking about this man who maybe isn't entirely a man at all. And she REALLY can't stop thinking about how he made her feel alive. So she pushes outside her comfort zone and lets him lead her into his world.

It's dark, dangerous, and deadly. Ghoul/Adam could turn on her at any time. She has to learn his rules so she doesn't break them. She has to push herself past her breaking point and the more time she spends in his world, the more she knows it's the place she wants to be. Darker than I normally read, but I liked it.