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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I'm pretty torn on this. On the one hand, super traumatized, insecure, angsty and depressed heroine. I loved the interplay between her and the hero. On the other hand, it is basically non-stop sex and death with a ton of different characters. If it has been less an orgy and more focus on the plot and character development, I probably would have like it more. ( ) I'm pretty torn on this. On the one hand, super traumatized, insecure, angsty and depressed heroine. I loved the interplay between her and the hero. On the other hand, it is basically non-stop sex and death with a ton of different characters. If it has been less an orgy and more focus on the plot and character development, I probably would have like it more. This book started off really well and, to be perfectly honest, ended well. But the more I read of it, the lower I wanted to rate it. Bear with me, I know I'm not making sense. The writing is exquisite. Hayes has a way with words, with just a few of them she paints a vivid scene. Look at this: "They’d whispered in dark ocean grottoes with demons" That simple, but can't you just picture it? Isn't it lovely? The whole book is like this, and her writing style produced some very explicit, yet tasteful, sex scenes. I read about the characters going at it hard and rough and I stopped and went, "That's really pretty." Because Hayes made it pretty. But there was too much sex. I know you are all reading this and going, "lol no such thing!" and normally I'd agree, but Hayes had such an amazing and unique world! She took all these clichés we see in paranormal romance books, those old boring characters: vampires, succubus, incubus, faeries, demons, and she rewrote them and made them interesting. Her whole world building was interesting! And I really, really wanted more of it, but every time we'd start exploring it - SEX! Sex, sex, sex. Well, written, yes, but... Too much of a good thing, really. no reviews | add a review
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Imagine a secret world veiled in fairy glamour and brimming with unearthly delights. A city swarming with half-mad fairies, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerize you with their song, and big green trolls bust heads at nightclubs. And once you're in, there's no escape... Enslaved by a demon lord, Jade is forced to spend her nights seducing vampire gangsters and shapeshifting thugs. After two hundred years as a succubus, she burns for freedom and longs to escape her brutal life as a trophy girl for hell's minions. Then she meets Rajah, an incubus who touches her heart and intoxicates her senses. Rajah shares the same bleak fate as she, and yearns just as desperately for freedom. But the only way for Jade to break her bonds is to betray Rajah--and doom theonly man she's ever loved to a lifetime in hell. No library descriptions found. |
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