Review: Never Trust a Demon to Deal Fairly
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2013
Once again Jeff Inlo delivers an incredible tale. If anything, I liked this story even better than the last. It's a story filled with the wide variety of beings that populate his other stories in Uton plus some new villains: The cahltofs,  the inferns, who are capable of demon fire being half demon, and the draevols. We also get to visit some more of Uton, the Great Valleys and the stuningly beautiful dwarf city of Sterling.Inlo's imagination really fascinates me. While this fantasy is filled with magic and combat between the forces of light and of dark magic, the final battle with the draevol in Ashland is especially intriguing. He set the story up so that the opponents really seemed lopsided. The solution was just marvelously clever. I didn't see it coming.Jeff Inlo writes about opposing forces without the anger so many writers use. Instead, he uses clever ways to deal with the villains, often without killing them but rather safely removing them. I'm impressed with how he manages normally to avoid killing people or creatures. In so many of his challenging situations, I would have killed the villain. I love how he finds a different solution.