Review: Good but kind of gross guy dreams of genie
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 25, 2013
Jewel is a djinn (aka genie) that’s been locked up in her lamp for 57 years. Freed by Tam, a man who has plenty of problems already, she becomes part of war between rival demon factions. Tam doesn’t want the perks of djinn mastery; he just wants to be alive again, really alive. You see Tam suffers the misfortune of having already died but is tied to his rotting body as part of a bargain made with a demon. He can regenerate for a brief while if he can feel enough sensation to get his nerve endings tingling, but, well, when you’re dead, that’s not as easy as it may sound. He doesn’t want to be responsible for Jewel, but he can’t fight his growing attraction for her. Throw in a half-human/half-fae Gavain who is in love with Tam and will do anything to win him and things are bound to get complicated.While the story line was overall ok, the steamy parts with a guy who is literally falling apart/decaying in the process were pretty gross. I understand the “not judging a book by its cover” and “seeing the person inside” stuff, got it, but this was a bit much. I made my way through those scenes very quickly trying to skip over the very disturbing parts. The end was pretty anticlimactic.