{"id":3248,"date":"2014-02-20T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2014-02-19T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:13:20","slug":"book-review-pleasure-unbound-demonica-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3248","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Pleasure Unbound (Demonica #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Pleasure Unbound (Demonica, #1)\" src=\"https:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1289064020l\/2679633.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An intriguing beginning to a series I definitely plan to keep reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Eidolon is an incubus doctor working at Underground General Hospital (UGH). He treats demons, mostly, although early in this story a human &#8212; well half-human, she just doesn&#8217;t know it &#8212; ends up in his ER. She&#8217;s a demon slayer whose world is about to turn upside down as she realizes how little she truly understands about the demonic underworld, not to mention herself.<\/p>\n<p>I found the world here to be more intriguing than I expected. I&#8217;m usually not into the role-reversal thing where vampires aren&#8217;t so bad once you get to know them, but once I set aside my prejudice I found myself captivated by the world this author has created. The characters were interesting, reasonably well developed, and held me captivated. I read this book easily in a single sitting and can&#8217;t wait for more.<\/p>\n<p>Like many books that immerse the reader into a complex world, it did take a few chapters to get off the ground. I actually had a bit of trouble right off the bat telling the difference between Eidolon and his two brothers. They were all present in the ER, and the point of view was a little light (not the deep probing viewpoint I myself write and am more often drawn to) so I kept getting mixed up as two who was the main character and what distinguished him from the others. This did ease up. I&#8217;m not saying it to discourage anyone from reading, just to say that some books may need a warm up and IMHO, this is one. But I think it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of steamy sex in here, in case the title didn&#8217;t tip you off. It&#8217;s hard to call it excessive since Eidolon&#8217;s an incubus (it&#8217;s really part of his nature). But it is pretty hard core, so know what you&#8217;re getting into. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for adult urban fantasy\/paranormal romance, give this a shot. You may find it pleasantly surprising.<br \/>\nflag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An intriguing beginning to a series I definitely plan to keep reading&#8230; Eidolon is an incubus doctor working at Underground General Hospital (UGH). He treats demons, mostly, although early in this story a human &#8212; well half-human, she just doesn&#8217;t know it &#8212; ends up in his ER. She&#8217;s a demon slayer whose world is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-romance-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}