What a tormented, incredible hero and yet a fun, sexy book!
Larissa is one of the few authors (for me) that can add campy humor and make me laugh out loud instead of rolling my eyes. I mean, come on, UGH makes me snicker every single time! I love it!
The humor helps balance the smoldering intensity of the sex and the bloody action of the plot. Anyone who’s read the first two books in the Demonica series knows that Wraith is going to burn the page up, and boy does he ever.
But what I most admire about Larissa’s writing is how she builds these impossible romances.
Wraith is dying unless he steals Serena’s charm.
Serena will die if she doesn’t have the charm.
Although he’s half incubus, Wraith is violently opposed to touching a human woman. Serena is not only human but also a virgin, and must stay that way, or she’ll lose the charm (see above).
Although he’s half vampire, Wraith despises all vampires because of the torture he received at their hands. So of course, he must use his vampire skills not only to win the huge external conflict of the story but to also keep Serena alive.
Seriously, you have to wonder how she’s going to pull this romance off, even though we know they’ll end up together in the end. Oh, and by the way, there’s this really bad guy who’s trying to kill them all and the whole world at the same time.
My only complaint — at myself, let me assure you — is that I can’t remember all the plot details from the first two books. In my older age (combined with my brain being stuffed with my own storylines), I just can’t always remember who the characters are who show up again, and there is quite a bit of cross over. However, Larissa beautifully explains who people are for the befuddled with poor memories like me. Not an infodump or a huge backstory that slows the plot down — just a nicely dropped few lines about where we’ve seen this bad guy before.
And of course, a few lovely scenes with Lore to make me slobber for his book, Ecstacy Unveiled.
Well done, Larissa!
