Hallowpeen

by Holly Wilde

Three women, one occult ritual, and an urban legend come true are waiting for you to discover just how delicious Halloween can be.

Everyone in the small town of Hollow Springs knows that Halloween night is when the veil of sentience is at its thinnest. So no one would attempt a ridiculous ritual on the night of a full moon, right?
Wrong.

This sentient object romance follows two friends who tempt fate deliciously and end up having a legendary time with the local urban legends. Curl up with some candy and a pumpkin spice latte while you enjoy the autumnal delights of Hallowpeen.

Genres: Halloween, Novella, Romance, Paranormal, Smut, Monster Romance, Erotica

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 30, 2024

About the author

If you’re looking to escape the boundaries of reality that we are so often confined to, then look no further. Sentient-smutty-smut and literal personification of everyday items is what you’ll find here.

Hi! it’s nice to meet you, I’m Holly “no-explanation” Wilde, and if you don’t buckle your seatbelt up for this ride, your chair will do it for you.

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Reviews

[HawkHatesYou · Rating 5 out of 5]

you couldn’t pay me to tell you what the plot was but damn did i love every page.

[Ally Veldstra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Y’all don’t judge me🤣 I don’t even know… like wtf did I just read. Blindly went into it… and I’m just sitting here like, “Oh My Gourd”💀

[Stitching Ghost · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was so much fun, Wilde knows how to fully commit to the bit and make a "sentient object" romance seem entirely unselfconscious. It's going to live rent free in my head for the foreseeable future.

[Paige Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was fucking amazing guys 🤣 I haven’t laughed this hard or felt these shameful things the way I did in a hot minute. Sexy Jack-o-lantern men who ejaculate gummy bears out of their peens?? Sign me tf up. 🙌🎃🍆

There’s a lot of negative reviews on this one and I understand why but this story wasn’t to be taken seriously from the get go and the author even warns readers ahead of time. Judging by the cover, y’all should know what to expect. I mean really😂 There was actually a solid story line there too regardless of how unrealistic this was. Give the author some credit lol.

I had the best time reading this story and can’t recommend it high enough for your Halloween TBR this season! This one’s for all my spooky ghoulies who love smut😉 you’re welcome!

[♥Milica♥ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I will never look at gummy bears the same way again

[Peter Topside · Rating 3 out of 5]

I See You Pee…I See You Pee…I….got nothing. I really appreciated Holly Wilde’s efforts to develop some sort of a genuine story and plot ahead of the sexual encounters. Blackberry and licorice play, cummy gummies, references to butternut balls, and a litany of other holiday-filled sexual references, I had a good time with this one. Lots of a high-grade and entertaining sex with several lucky ladies and our lead monster, ManCandy. Brought me back to Carlton Mellick’s Cannibals of Candyland a bit. I fear that this set up a particular dynamic where I will become overly enthusiastic around candy moving forward. Is that so wrong? Holly Wilde, this is on your head. And if I ever need to be bailed out for any offenses like that, I call on you to be there for your fellow author. But, this was a good romp, best suited for fans of erotica and monster fetish business.

[julia]

i can’t even put into words how awful this book was but also incredible ?

[Cassondra Samuelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Read it.

[Bri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cummy gummy 💀

[spicykatzreads]

The fact that I have said oh my gourd casually many times in my life before reading this is worrying

[Luce · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Just because my guts have been ripped out doesn't mean I can't rearrange yours."

I've always been a coffee girl, but being tea-bagged like this is more electrifying than any seasonal latte.

Holly Wilde's dedication to putting as many puns into her books absolutely kills me every time.

[Stellan Cooper · Rating 2 out of 5]

the fact i read “uncircumcised seedhole” says everything about the rating

was it bad? no. can i in good faith rate it higher than a 2 star. also no.

[Peppa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really can’t read this … dnfed after 40 %

[DA · Rating 5 out of 5]

Trick or Treat!

This gets 5 stars simply due to the outrageousness of the story. I have never read something like this ever in my life and now I NEED to read the author's entire bibliography.
I will say I don't think I'll ever eat gummy bears again though.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five stars for the fact that it was read on a plush pink velvet sofa with my best friend and a bottle of wine.

ManCandy is a dreamboat

[Kat · Rating 2 out of 5]

This gets 2 stars because it made me laugh so hard I actually cried.

[Cristina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Este es uno de esos libros cortos que no pueden faltar en Halloween si te gusta el monster romance, sentient object, o los libros absolutamente locos y sin sentido.

Argumento no hay mucho, lo justo para desarrollar una historia tradicional de Halloween.
Dos historias principales protagonizadas por tres Jack O'Lantern y por ManCandy. Divertidos hallowpeen y cummy gummy....

Lo único que no me ha gustado es el despliegue de vocabulario como rellenar mi pastel, regar mis crisantemos... cringe.
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"An explosion of frothy sweetness, hints of nutmeg and cinnamon mixed with toasted pumpkin, pours from his cock as I'm filled with his pumpkin seed."
"I'm currently a Hallowpeen sandwich, all I can think about is how close their pumpkins are to my pie"

[Heather myfriendsdontread · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was just as goofy and ridiculous as I’d hoped it would be. It’s set on Halloween night and there are 3 pumpkin headed monster demons and a monster made out of candy.

If you liked Layla Fae’s novellas, you’d like this one too.

It was entertaining and just what I needed today. There’s nothing like an absurd, smutty Halloween novella to get me out of book slump.

[Bean]

the hallowpeens are so kind 🖤

[r ꨄ︎]

here from ig reels because what the hell

[Kirsten | Bookish.kir · Rating 4 out of 5]

Judge me all you want I will never get tired of these sentient object novellas lol. 🎃🎃🎃

[Xtina Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had a fuckin BLAST with this lil Halloween read!!

Yeah, imma still eat gummy bears. Iykyk

[Chelsy Meyer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lost a fantasy football bet and had to read this. What a ride. I’ll never think of gummy bears the same way again. 5/5 for ridiculous puns and making me laugh out loud

[Laurynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5⭐
5/5🌶️

Tropes
- Witty banter
- No third-act breakup
- Forbidden Love

📖My Thoughts
Why yes, yes I did read this. Even though it was objectively terrible, I can't bring myself to give it a bad review because I knew what I was getting myself into. Sometimes you have to read the book for the memes, ok? I'm honestly impressed with the author's ability to work an autumnal pun in at every turn. The writing wasn't bad by any means and the editing was far better than some other popular books out there. Yes, it was terribly cheesy but incredibly fun to read with friends.

⚠️Triggers
The amount of puns used is probably the most triggering thing about this book. The book does also include kidnapping and some very explicit sex scenes.

🌶️Spice
This didn't have your average kind of spice. It had a latte spice. (A lot of spice? Get it? Yeah? Ok whatever, I did my best). The first major scene is with three pumpkins boys and a girl. Was it three? For some reason, it ended up feeling like another pumpkin boy slipped in there somewhere. I couldn't keep up. The next scene is with another female character and the ManCandy monster. Honestly, I really enjoyed the pumpkin boys more and felt like we got a little more lead up to it for me to really get into it. ManCandy felt sugar rushed. (super rushed..No?)

[evie · Rating 3 out of 5]

ykw HELL YEAH 🔥🔥 love me some freaky gourds

[maribel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was so unserious but fun!! It had a great start! The first half locked me down regardless of “oh, okayyyy??” moments but it’s really nothing to overthink over. This is just a quick sprinkle of fun and silliness for spooky season!

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spice: 3

Tropes:
why choose
holiday romance
sentient romance
occult rituals
Multiple POVs

I'm shocked with what I'm about to say..... but I enjoyed this little novella. Was it my normal cup of pumpkin spice latte? Nope. Was it spicy? Surprising erotic, yes lol. Did it make me giggle the whole book? 100% This was a trip, let me tell you. I actually read this for a book reading challenge and someone suggested it.... ROFL I'm sorry I'm still cracking up at this one.

Long story short, it's Halloween and on a full moon, if you whispering a saying 3x (you know the drill), rumor is a demon will come and make you disappear. So of course, what does Asha do? She says it... thinking she'll either prove the urban legend false or find a missing Samantha. What goes down is an orgy with three Jack-o-lantern men... YES, you read that right...

Then Asha's friend also unlocks a different, but related, urban legend and she stumbles upon ManCandy... yes, he's a sexually charged man made out of candy. Look I'm not clever enough to make this up. Go read it.... if you dare.

[Annica ⚡️ annica_reads_books ⚡️ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Here’s the deal. I thought that there wasn’t a chance in hell that I’d rate this higher than 2 stars, yet here I am rating this 3. I’m just as surprised as you are. I haven’t read many holiday sentient object novellas (maybe 10?), but this is actually the best written one out of them all. I picked this up knowing I was in for a really silly read, and while it definitely delivered there, this also had…some sort of plot? Surprisingly, the nicknames for the heroine were…normal? I’ve read weirder sh!t in regular romance novels. Give me ‘pumpkin’ and ‘boo’ in a Halloween-themed novella any day of the week!

If a plethora of silly gourd puns with a reverse harem of h0rny jack-o’lanterns isn’t your thing, why the hell are you even picking this book up?

[Evangeline · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Read for book club.
I haven’t laughed this much in a long time. It was a fun experience that’s for sure

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

An extra star for all the well done puns