Z: A demonica Novella by Larissa Ione

Z: A Demonica Novella by Larissa Ione is a masterpiece.  A quick read, but one that takes your breathe away.

Its hard to believe that a story that has taken place in the underworld could be a love story, but that’s exactly what this story is.  The story centres around Zubaal, a fallen angel who has given up everything to search for his one true love.  Working for the Grim Reaper he hopes to spot his love the moment her soul turns up.  What he didn’t expect was to find her when he crosses paths with Vex, a soul eater.

This story is so much more than hero searches for his heroine, finds her, they go through some hard times and all ends happy.  This story makes them work for it with a few very surprising twists.

As we learn in this story, souls are very funny strange things.  What you believe is one thing can turn out to be quite the opposite.  I absolutely loved the two main characters of Z and Vex and how they interact with each other.  Neither are looking for the other, both are loyal and loving, but you have to wonder if that’s enough.

Great read, great chemistry, great characters…..everything is GREAT.

5/5 Review: Base Instincts by Larissa Ione

 

 

As a Seminus demon, Raze’s life literally depends on having sex with females. The problem is that he doesn’t desire females, and it’s physically impossible for him to be with males. Thankfully, he and his best friend, Fayle, have an arrangement that keeps him alive . . . if lonely. He finds some solace in his work as a medic at Thirst, a vampire club known for its rough clientele. But his carefully structured world turns upside down when he meets a mysterious male who makes him want what he can never have.

Slake is an assassin used to getting what he wants, and what he wants is Raze. But he also wants to earn back the soul he sold when he was a much different demon. All he has to do is capture a runaway succubus named Fayle and hand her over to her family. What he doesn’t count on is being caught himself by a web of lies—and his attraction to Raze.

Raze and Slake must navigate a dangerous world to be together. But as Fayle’s jealousy of their relationship turns deadly, they find themselves embroiled in a battle not only for their love, but their lives and souls.

 

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Base Instincts by Larissa Ione is another excellent work!  Slake is a Duosos Demon.  He left his family after he became what he was meant to be and they didn’t accept his decision.  In order to gain protection from them he signed a contract that gave the owner his soul if he failed to complete one of his one hundred missions.  He became a retriever for the law firm and because of the type of demon he is, he is a very good tracker.  On his last mission to retrieve a succubus things start to go really wrong, or in his case, finally right.  He meets Raze, a seminus demon, who works as a medic in a club and in a hospital.  He is a sex demon whose species can only mate with females if not they go crazy and attack the first woman they see.  Slake and Rave feel a draw to each other that they can’t explain, but they don’t fight it either, things just keep getting in the way of them being together.  Fayle being one of them.  She is the succubus that Slake must retrieve for the law firm.  In order for Raze to find sexual release a female has to be present during the action, and he has to come inside of her.  Being gay this then is extremely difficult for Raze, but if he doesn’t have release about every 12 hours he becomes extremely ill, and will eventually die.  The way that Larissa Ione solves this problem is amazing and I love the creativity!  When Raze and Slake have a real chance at being together, they have to deal with Slake’s soul being forfeit because he failed his mission in retrieving Fayle.  I loved this story and was drawn into their lives.  I am of course going back to the beginning and reading the others’ stories so when the next book comes out, I know who everyone is.  I felt the emotions between Raze and Slake and could see the events happening as they happened.  I love when a story is so well written that you see it as a movie in your head, and when the credits roll at the end you can’t wait for the next one.  I recommend this and any other work by Larissa Ione!

 

 

4/5 Review: Hades: A Demonica Novella (1001 Dark Nights) by Larissa Ione

A fallen angel with a mean streak and a mohawk, Hades has spent thousands of years serving as Jailor of the Underworld. The souls he guards are as evil as they come, but few dare to cross him. All of that changes when a sexy fallen angel infiltrates his prison and unintentionally starts a riot. It’s easy enough to quell an uprising, but for the first time, Hades is torn between delivering justice — or bestowing mercy — on the beautiful female who could be his salvation…or his undoing. Thanks to her unwitting participation in another angel’s plot to start Armageddon, Cataclysm was kicked out of Heaven and is now a fallen angel in service of Hades’s boss, Azagoth. All she wants is to redeem herself and get back where she belongs. But when she gets trapped in Hades’s prison domain with only the cocky but irresistible Hades to help her, Cat finds that where she belongs might be in the place she least expected…

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I am going to write this review on how this book was written and not my personal feelings towards it.  I will explain.  This was a very well written story with all that one would look for in a great read.  I, however, am a Mythology fanatic and cannot see Hades as he is portrayed in this story.  To me, Hades is the God of the Underworld, this includes both Tartarus and the Elysian Fields.  He is strong, dark, and mysterious.  

In this story he is portrayed as a fallen angel who is working for Azagoth.  He is the jailer of the underworld, and is known for his meanness.  As for his appearance, I apologize but I just do not see him as having a blue Mohawk.  This does not scream Hades to me.  I have to say he is my favorite God in Mythology along with Ares.  It is hard for me to read books about them if they are altered too much.  

Now on to the book itself.  It was a good piece of writing.  That I will not take away from the author.  I could see myself falling in love with the characters as I did with the plot if I have not been such a fan of Hades.  Cataclysm, a recently fallen angel who is trying to regain her positon has a hard time coping.  She is in other words clumsy and naïve.  She brings about the start of Armageddon without intentionally doing so.  I don't know why but I love how that came about.  It brings me to the cliché saying, "things happen for a reason".  What that reason is, is for the reader to find out.  

I would recommend this book to any lovers who love a quick romance book filled with lots of excitement.    

Release: REVENANT by Larissa Ione + Giveaway

HELL HATH NO FURY . . . For five thousand years, Revenant believed he was alone in the world, a fallen angel beyond any redemption. Now he finds he has a twin brother who had all the light and love Revenant was denied. Caught in a tug of war between Heaven and Hell, he must weigh his thirst for revenge against his desire for a mysterious female named Blaspheme-a female whose very origins could deliver him into salvation . . . or destruction.

LIKE AN ANGEL SCORNED
Blaspheme has a deadly secret: she's the forbidden offspring of an angel and a fallen angel. Hunted by both heavenly and satanic forces, she has survived only by laying low and trusting no one. When Revenant claims he can save them both, how can she possibly believe him? But the powerful angel is persistence incarnate and for Blaspheme, there's no place she can hide in Heaven or Hell where he won't find her . . .

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A former meteorologist and EMT, Air Force veteran Larissa Ione now gets her daily dose of excitement from vampires, werewolves, demons, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. She lives in wintery Wisconsin with her U.S. Coast Guard husband, her teenage son, a rescue cat, and her hellhound, a King Shepherd named Hexe.

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Excerpt:

Since the moment Revenant bumped into Blaspheme at the hospital a few weeks ago, he’d been obsessed, and now, as her long legs ate up the asphalt as she walked toward him, he imagined them wrapped around his waist as he pounded into her. The closer she came, the harder his body got.

“Blaspheme.” He stepped out from between two black ambulances, blocking her path.

She jumped, a startled gasp escaping full crimson lips made to propel a male to ecstasy. “Revenant.” Her gaze darted to the hospital doors, and he got the impression she was plotting her escape route. How cute that she thought she could get away from him. “What are you doing lurking in the parking lot?”

Lurking? Well, some might call it that, he supposed. “I was on my way to see you.”

She smiled sweetly. “Well, you’ve seen me. Buh-bye.” Pivoting, her blond ponytail bouncing, she headed in the opposite direction.

 “Come home with me.”

“Wow.” She turned and crossed her arms over her chest, which only drew his attention to her rack. Niiice. “You get right to the point.”

He shrugged. “Saves time.”

“Were you planning to wine and dine me at least?  You know, before the sex.”

“No. Just sex.” Lots and lots of sex.

He could already imagine her husky voice deepening in the throes of passion.

“Oh,” she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. “You’re charming, aren’t you?”

Not once in his five thousand years had anyone ever called him charming. But even uttered with sarcasm, it was the nicest thing anyone had ever said to him.

“Don’t do that,” he growled.

“Do what?” She stared at him like he was a loon.

“Never mind.” Dying to touch her, he held out his hand. “You’ll love my play room.”

She wheeled away like he was offering her the plague instead of his hand. “Go to hell, asshole. I don’t date fallen angels.”

“Good news, then, because it’s not a date.” And he wasn’t a fallen angel.

“Right. Well, I don’t fuck fallen angels either.” She made a shooing motion with her hand. “Go away.”

She was rejecting him? No one rejected him. No one.

She started to take off again, and he blinked, confused. This wasn’t right. He had his sights set on her, and she was supposed to surrender. This was something new. Something…titillating.

He moved in slowly, matching her step for step as she backed up.

“What are you doing?” She swallowed as she bumped up against a massive support beam.

“I’m going to show you why you need to come home with me.” He planted both palms on the beam on either side of her head and leaned in until his lips brushed the tender skin of her ear. “You won’t regret it.”

“I already told you. I don’t fuck fallen angels.”

“So you said,” he murmured. “Do you kiss them?”

“Ah…no, I—“

He didn’t give her the chance to finish her sentence. Strawberry gloss coated his lips as he kissed her, and he swore he’d never liked fruit as much as he did right now.

Her hands came up to grip his biceps, tugging him closer as she deepened the kiss. “You’re good,” she whispered against his mouth.

“I know,” he whispered back.

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Review: Reaver by Larissa Ione

WARRIOR OF HEAVEN

Reaver is an angel with a past, a record, and a less-than-heavenly attitude. Powerful enough to fight alongside the fiercest battle angels-and crazy enough to risk his wings on a one-way mission to hell-he's agreed to go where no angel has ever gone before . . . to steal the most seductive and dangerous prize of Satan himself.

ANGEL OF HELL

Harvester is one of the Fallen, a once-heroic angel who sacrificed her wings to work as an undercover agent in hell. But now her cover has been blown, and she's doomed to an eternity of agonizing torture. Even if Reaver can snatch her away from Satan's lair, even if they can fight their way out of the underworld's darkest depths, there is one thing Harvester can never escape-her new-found thirst for an angel's blood . . 

I haven't read all of the other books in this series, and I was worried that I would be lost, and that is exactly what happened. I could tell that some of the characters were clearly from previous books and I think the storyline would not have been so confusing if I had read the previous books in the series.

I think the main problem I have with this book is the complicated world. There are many species and terms that I haven't been able to figure out yet. I still don't understand the big battle that is suppose to happen every few hundred years and the full ramifications that come with it. I did find myself to be curious about some of the secondary characters though. I looked around a little on the authors website and found that most of the secondary characters have their own book.

For those of you who are fans of this series, you will love this book as much as the others, but be prepared for tears and anguish along the way. I wasn't completely thrilled with the way everything turned out.  I thought it could have been more completely and creatively resolved. I plan on starting this series from the beginning.