The Demon Lover by Juliet Dark

I gasped . . . or tried to. My mouth opened, but I couldn’t draw breath. . . . His lips, pearly wet, parted and he blew into my mouth. My lungs expanded beneath his weight. When I exhaled he sucked in my breath and his weight turned from cold marble into warm living flesh.

Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly erotic dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are the result of writing her bestselling book, The Sex Lives of Demon Lovers. After all, Callie’s lifelong passion is the intersection of lurid fairy tales and Gothic literature—which is why she finds herself at Fairwick’s renowned folklore department, living in a once-stately Victorian house that, at first sight, seemed to call her name.

But Callie soon realizes that her dreams are alarmingly real. She has a demon lover—an incubus—and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then Callie makes another startling discovery: He’s not the only mythical creature in Fairwick. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the incubus, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult—banishing this demon lover from her heart.





It took me a good time to actually get into the depths of this book. I thought that parts of the book in the beginning were good and parts of the book were kind of dry. I thought the beginning of the book was kinda here and there and didn't make a lot of sense.

After I got about halfway through, the book started to pick up with me. I really started to enjoy the story line. I like the small little town that she Dark creates. I definitely love the Victorian house that she moves into. I thought the title of the book was a little misleading. I can see where the idea came from, but the original title Incubus would have made more sense than The Demon Lover. I loved the book cover though. It's a very beautiful picture.

All in all I found it to be a good book, just a lot of things in the beginning of the story could have been left out. It took me a while to get into this book, which usually does not happen, but once I got to the halfway point, I couldn't put it down.

SPOILER*********DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK!!!!***********
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I was very disappointed in the ending. I was not happy to find that she didn't end up with Liam! Unless there is going to be a book that may continue on with this book, I am going to be very disappointed because I want Liam back and I think he was wronged, and I would like to hear more about how he became involved with Dolly.

Misfit by Jon Skovron

Jael has always felt like a freak. She’s never kissed a boy, she never knew her mom, and her dad’s always been superstrict—but that’s probably because her mom was a demon, which makes Jael half demon and most definitely not a normal sophomore girl. On her sixteenth birthday, a mysterious present unlocks her family’s dangerous history and Jael’s untapped potential. What was merely an embarrassing secret before becomes a terrifying reality. Jael must learn to master her demon side in order to take on a vindictive Duke of Hell while also dealing with a twisted priest, best-friend drama, and a spacey blond skater boy who may have hidden depths.




I really enjoyed this book. It took a couple of chapters to fully get into it, but it was good. Don't let the idea of preaching religion get in your head, the world that is created for these characters is a good one. The idea of where the demons come from is well created. I love when books make me think and I like it when a book is original and does not make me think of other books and this book does a great job of that. I hope there will be another book!!!



WARNING THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THIS BOOK OR DO NOT WANT ANYTHING RUINED FOR YOU!

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At first this book was a little hard to get into. It was a little slow at first and I thought it would have a lot to do with religion, which a lot of it does. Religion does not bother me, as I have read both Chronicles of Narnia and the His Dark Materials Series. I can easily not judge books based on this, but I can see how others may get caught up in this.

I thought the book had a lot of potential. I really enjoyed the book after a while. My favorite part was where we would get to go back in time and see Paul and Astarte's story. I do think it was cool how he blended Astarte as all of those people she once was. The fact that demons may have once been gods or other beings was an interesting concept. I like the world that Skovron built in order to see his creation of his stories. I like that there are deomons out there that may not want to be seen as a bad creature/being.

I absolutely loved Dagon. I am hoping there will be another story and him being involved with it. I am hoping that Jael can bring him back to his former self and to see what all he has done to come to how he is now. He may be viewed as a week person in Hell, but I find him to be very strong and to have great character. He knows that he has made mistakes in the past, and it seems as if he has learned from them. You can see the love he had for his sister and for the love he has of Jael.

I would love to see more of her father fighting the demons with Jael. So hopefully Skovron will write more stories of this series because I would love to see what these other Dukes and demons have in store for Jael.