Review: Great read!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2010
I reviewed another Angels & Demons book (My Avenging Angel) a while ago and fell in love with the world of Angels and Demons. Ok, to be fair, I already loved Angels. But the idea of demons kind of squicked me out a little bit. Going off of my love of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, demons are funky looking and usually ooze some kind of nasty goo, right?Um. Wrong. Really wrong.In Tarra Blaize's world, they're dangerous and mysterious and oh-so-sexy. But I'll get to that in a minute.Layla Roads immediately tore at my heart strings. She's obviously torn about what she's doing, but feels that she's doing it (betraying her sexy-as-heck boss Gethin - who she harbours a pretty big thing for) for a good reason... namely, some nasty (in the sense that they're meanieheads, not that they're hideous-looking) air demons are threatening to kill her 7 year old brother. Wayyy not cool. So yeah, I get why she's betraying Gethin.And I get why Gethin would feel so ... well, betrayed. Even if things hadn't gone beyond a kiss or two, he made it known that he felt something for Layla (even if it was just a really strong sexual attraction, it was something).  And he trusted her inside his company with demons he cared about.Kinda seems like a recipe for a really big blowout and Layla getting killed, right? I mean, Gethin is a demon, after all...Nope, wrong again! (I totally feel like Rafiki right now)I won't give any more away, because this is one of those that you have to read for yourselves to see why I loved it as much as I did. Believe me, it's well worth the $2.80 pricetag at Amazon.The story pulled me in from the very beginning, and I loved the sexual tension between Gethin and Layla from the very beginning. Even when he's so mad at her he's ready to kill, I still felt something between them. There were only two things I had an issue with...1) You never hear from Gethin. I like hearing from the hero's point of view as well as the heroine.2) Unless my boyfriend made me miss something by bothering me while I was reading, I didn't see the resolution of one of the major plot points (the person they're searching for). Unless this is intentionally left open for a sequel (which I'd be totally happy with reading, I promise you), I feel like that part was left dangling.Overall, it was a very enjoyable novella, and I look forward to reading more of Tarra Blaize's work in the future.