I liked this one marginally better than Wicked Nights for a couple of reasons. While the supernatural matchmakers are still present, there's much less nagging going on, which was a big relief, and the sex, while still the focus of the story, was less self-consciously "ooh, daring!" The featured candy this time was red blow-pops--kinda goofy and obvious, but as they weren't mentioned on every second page, I didn't mind them.

Brynn is a sex-cursed demon. For 500 years, every time he's with a woman for one hour, he's under a compulsion to strip and offer her sex. Kim is a demon hunter. Both of them want nothing more than to be "normal". Which is the third reason for liking this one a bit better--there's a reason for Kim and Brynn to fall in love, even if all we see in the story is the lust.

There's an infestation of demons in Galveston, and Kim and Brynn and the rest of the inhabitants of the Castle of Dark Dreams as well as Kim's trigger-happy demon hunting family have to band together to stop it. They're aided by Kim's sentient demon detector, a cute character in itself.

One thing I do have to mention--Bangs does a great job of fitting the characters from the previous book in naturally instead of shoehorning them in. No

"oh, look who dropped by--Joe and Sue, who got married after all these problems and Sue's already expecting a baby boy who they'll name Jimmy and gosh, we hope their dog Waldo and their cat Frisky won't be too jealous" and then they never show up again

scene. (one of my pet peeves, in case the sarcasm wasn't clear enough)

It's a cute story, but don't expect anything more than some giggles and steam. ( )

I liked the other two in this series, the one before and the one after. Otherwise I would never have tracked down this one.

It was a good read with a satisfying ending and the same quirkiness as the other two. I enjoyed it. ( )

The world runneth over with non-humans. Sparkle is up to her usual matchmaking cosmic troublemaking capers here by teaming up a "demon" with a demon hunter. Only he's not a demon, and she's not really a demon hunter. And when the real demon shows up only Ganymede can save the day.

Over all Wicked Pleasures is an average novel, every scene seeming to be just glossed over - never really getting deep into the motivation and emotions of the main characters. Maybe because there are just too many characters to keep track of... Nice touch with the AI's though. ( )