Review: Sensitive Material
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2011
I finished reading Deal With The Devil today and honestly, I am not overly thrilled with the story.  Deal With The Devil is an interesting story about how young werewolf Luz Velez overcomes her tormented past and accepts the tall and dangerous vampire Jude Jacobson.The story is written through the eyes of Luz and at times you tend to forget that she is supposed to be 27. Her character is very naive and innocent, though the later is not her fault. You learn throughout the story that the character of Luz was abused as a child. I found it difficult to read. I felt that the extent of her abuse was rather intense to have in a "romance" novel. I will give the author Evangeline Anderson credit and admit the issue of abuse was handled well in respect to not rushing the sexuaas relationship of the main characters, but the extent of the abuse did not make for light reading.I found Luz's relationship with her parents aswell as her older sister to also be rather uncomfortable. At the age of 27, Luz was still having a very dysfunctional, confusing, mentally abusive relationship with her family. The fact that she felt it was ok to go to her parents house for dinner (to the people that allowed.....yes! allowed Luz to be raped at 13!) because her mum offered to make her chocolate cake made for some twisted reading! This is a 27 year old!It was hard to read a book that constantly swung between an abused, socially inept young woman and a woman experiencing passionate love for the first time. I found it all a bit much to swallow.Do I recommend it as a good book to read.....no.....but that depends on what you want to read. This book is rather intense and dark. If thats what you want then you will be more than happy.