Review: I need MORE of this steamy stuff!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2012
This is a short novella and a very fast read. Having said that, when you read it, you're going to want to slow down and enjoy the story. I mean, Jaye Shields gets right down to business and deftly describes our sex demon, Zahra enjoying some sexy, painful but still sexy times of the paid variety. Hey, no judgements, a succubus like our sex demon draws her energy from ecstasy and when your drugged out adopted sister leaves you in financial troubles, nothing like killing two birds with one stone!Shields does an excellent job building the world this novella takes place in. It's cobblestone medieval village feel has a tinge of modernness to it that seems realistic and still fantastical. Zahra could easily be a one dimensional character but not in Shields' hands. Zahra has many layers and is wise beyond her lot in life. Lennox is not in a happy mood, to say the least. And rightly so but his actions may have been a bit rash, Zahra doesn't get to pick her blood family after all! Lennox quickly realizes he's overstepped his own boundaries but now he has to prove to Zahra he's not the monster she believes he's capable of being.  I like a the little taste of role reversal.Like I said, the story is great. I'm excited to see how this trilogy plays out. The secondary characters offer lots of promise. The bad guys are magically bad and the town lives in fear of them. The sex is scandalicious...which, Zahra's a sex demon, it should be, no?!!? I'm also going to give mad props to Jaye Shields and her Grandma. She talks about her Grandma reading this novella in the dedication. Hats off to Ms. Shields and Grandma - rock on with your scandalicious selves!