Review: Demon Lust Magic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
Initially confusing, but eventually the rules become clear. Now, I feel like re-reading the Immortal series!This novella is set in a contemporary world of demons, witches, and mages. Mages provide the largest threat and seem to hold the greatest capacity for evil. (They routinely sacrifice demons for increased power. Mages also enslave demons, making them 'mageheld', which causes demons to lose free will.Lys Fensic, an attorney and a powerful street witch with the gift of fortelling the future, barely escapes her evil mage boyfriend with her life. Telos Khunbish comes to her assistance. He had thought Lys was a "vanilla' human and has been attracted to her for months. What Lys doesn't know is that Telos is a demon and nothing sparks a demon's lust like magic.I read this novella when it originally released as "Future Tense". The additional scenes make "Free Fall" a meatier story; plus, the love scene is very hot! Carolyn Jewell is one of the rare authors who does not shy away from her paranormal hero making love in his other forms. (It's understandable why werewolves are restricted because that would be gross.) The love scenes are tastefully done. The story felt a little jagged at the beginning and there seemed to be some repetition, but it smoothed out. Overall, this novella reminded me how much I enjoyed some of the original world-building of the Immortal series world.