Deal with the Demon by K. Loraine
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Roslyn Blackthorne is dead.
Deal with the Demon
Technically.
I faked my death to get out of a loveless marriage but that was only half the battle. To ensure my vampire duke can never find me, I have to run far and fast enough he can’t catch me. Because if he does, it’s over. Not just my life—for real this time—but my entire family’s.
So how does the princess of the Blackthorne vampires disappear in a world where every supernatural creature knows who she is? Summon a demon, of course.
Pan agrees to keep me hidden, help me start a new life…for a cost. And it’s not my soul he’s after. Oh no, he wants my blood…and my body.
But so do they.
The shifter twins.
The cursed hacker.
And, of course, my estranged husband.
Starting over should be easy after my bargain with the demon. New name. New job. New reality in a tiny town where no one would think to search.
Welcome to Aurora Springs, Alaska, a sleepy place where everyone is hiding something and nothing ever happens. At least it was…until I arrived and people started dropping like flies.
It looks like I brought my past, and a whole host of other problems, with me. But that’s not a big deal, right? It’s not the end of the world or anything.
Super steamy reverse harem audiobook with full cast duet narration!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 🙂🥰😎🥹
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration ✨Full Cast✨
The heroine: Rosalyn Blackthorne (a.k.a. Rosie, a.k.a. Nadia Black) – she is a vampire human hybrid, her father was the king of the North American vampires. She faked her death and ran from her loveless marriage. She had been married to a vampire named Gavin Donohue. She went to a guy named Asher Henry who was to give her a new name, new documents and a new life. Born vampires like her either turn or don’t by a certain age and she never turned so technically she is not a vampire. Though she did have sharper vision, keener sense of smell, better hearing, healing abilities and more.
The Heroes: Asher Henry – he is the supernatural world’s most wanted hacker, and he is cursed. He lives in Aurora Springs, Alaska and only goes into town once a month, and even then, with a disguise and the name Joe Baker. He owns various properties under different names.
Bentley Mercer – he and his brother are wolf shifters that own a local bar. He and his brother offered Rosie a job and a place to live above the bar. He has a bit of a stutter when he is nervous.
Remington Mercer – twin brother to Bentley, he is a wolf shifter. He sometimes hooked up with Asher. He and his brother aren’t part of a pack, they are alone in the world.
Pan – he is a hulking purple demon. He agrees to hide Rosalyn and change her scent, but he demands a big price. He wants her body, her womb, her chance of producing offspring.
The Story: This story got steamy right away. Pan wanted his payment right after meeting Rosie. She met all the guys really early on in the book, though I kind of wanted more information on her marriage and why she really ran. She still fantasized about her husband and though she mentioned he was sadistic, it sounded more in the S&M way, not in the cruel and unusual way. She seemed to like what he did to her in her fantasies. So, I didn’t really know what was going on there.
Though I was surprised at the fact that the prequel was on the audiobook after the first book was completed and it did answer all the questions I had about Rosie’s past. I just wished the prequel would have been before the main book, not after.
This book was super steamy. I would, however, like a bit more story with my smut. Please and thank you! There was some story, but I wish there would have been a better plot with this one. I mean there was the whole, hiding away in Alaska from her husband storyline and each of the guys had some backstory of their own. I just wanted a little bit more.
“What would they think if they burst in here and saw their precious princess being railed by a demon?”
The characters were all well developed, and I loved the diversity of supernatural characters. Bentley was so cute with his stutter. There were also an eclectic mix of bar patrons. Such as an MC full of bear shifters, three funny gargoyles named Tom, Dick and Harry and plenty of other great characters.
This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via duet narration with a full cast of great narrators. It was narrated by J.F. Harding, Jacob Morgan, James Joseph, John Hartley, Stella Hunter, and Teddy Hamilton. I figured I couldn’t go wrong with this series with all these narrators. Stella Hunter always does a fantastic job, and she did a good job with the British accent. Jacob Morgan, J.F. Harding and Teddy Hamilton are some of my favorite male narrators so you can’t go wrong with these guys. James Joseph and John Hartley are new to me, and both have British accents so that sounded very authentic. I don’t know which one was the voice of Pan, but I really disliked his voice. Though overall, the quality of the majority of the narrators was top notch, so I am still giving the highest marks for narration.
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