Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Finding love is hard—especially when you’re a demon and your potential mate is your sacrifice…

Sammy is content with running his bookshop and leading a book club consisting solely of paranormal creatures. Despite the persistence of his friends, he has resolved himself to a life without romance, since he doesn’t think anybody could find him and his tendency to spill useless knowledge whenever he gets nervous attractive.

 

Dresalantion is a demon prince and slightly—make that majorly—annoyed when somebody persistently tries to summon him. He finally decides to show up and put the fear of Dresalantion into his summoners but finds himself rescuing their sacrifice instead.

 

Sammy intrigues him from the get-go, and when Dre realizes that Sammy can get him the manga he’s been hunting for months—not to mention that he refuses a wish he offered him—the sexy demon decides to get to know this fascinating man better. Much better.

 

 

Reader advisory: This book contains scenes of kidnapping and an attempted human sacrifice. 

Book Review

‘Demon’s Wish’ is a low angst, highly sweet, and very lighthearted urban-fantasy-paranormal story with a fun group of secondary characters. The basic plot revolves around Dre (800-year-old demon) and Sammy (human) both lamenting they will never find their true love/mate.   Until they do. 

 

What *I* enjoyed about this story is it’s just… happy. No major angst, no huge dramas, no big misunderstanding. While Dre strongly suspects they are mates, he acquiesces to Sammy wishing to take it slow to get to know each other, and they embark upon two weeks of globe-trotting dates. I appreciated that slower approach to an already fast-moving romance. I found Sammy’s verbal trivia when nervous endearing and fun and a nice way to showcase a character trait. 

 

I greatly enjoyed the secondary characters as introduced through the book group – a set of elderly lesbian witches, an ancient vampire, two alpha werewolves who are business partners (and maybe more?), an asexual banshee and one shy zombie. They have formed a close-knit group, almost a second family, with all the concerns, overprotectiveness, and bickering that comes with such comfortable closeness.  

 

Where I stumbled with the book was when Dre and Sammy finally decided to take the plunge and see if they were truly mates via sex and the mating bite. Why does mating nearly always involve penetrative sex by the perceived “dominant” character on the (usually) smaller character? In this instance, the size of Dre’s demon “form” was unrealistic for a virgin human’s first time. The scene had me going eeee! AND shaking my head in disbelief, then I skimmed because the dynamic was uncomfortable, and I wanted to get back to the happy bits.

 

So aside from my quirk with the first-time sex, this is a fun, feel-good, humorous cuppa hot cocoa with loads of flavored marshmallows type of read. And when it’s -30*F (0*C) out and the world seems like it’s going to hell in a handbasket without a gorgeous demon for company, it’s the perfect way to zone out for a while. 

 

 

DISCLAIMER: Book reviewed on this site were usually provided at no cost by the publisher or author. This book has been provided by Pride Publishing for the purpose of a review.

 

Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 201 pages/53035 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	05-January-2021
Price	$4.99 ebook, $10.50 paperback
Buy Link	https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/demons-wish