{"id":3317,"date":"2014-02-26T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2014-02-26T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:28:41","slug":"book-review-desire-unbound-demonica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Desire Unbound (Demonica #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Desire Unchained (Demonica, #2)\" src=\"https:\/\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1344268874l\/4497978.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This continues the story of the three incubus doctors\/paramedics who run Underworld General Hospital. In this one, Shade, cursed to become insubstantial if he ever falls in love, falls in love. (Who didn&#8217;t see that one coming?) I did enjoy this and read it even more quickly than the first, partly because I was already familiar with the world so didn&#8217;t have to wade through a bit of confusion before I could begin to enjoy the story. But I&#8217;m rating it lower because I honestly didn&#8217;t find this story as compelling.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem was that I saw the ending coming a mile away. And I mean almost from page one. Also, I was more compelled by a secondary romance (which began in the first book and is still not resolved yet).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely enjoying this series and will continue devouring the books (already have the third one ready to go), but this isn&#8217;t likely to be my favorite volume. I do continue to recommend it to anyone who enjoys very grown-up romantic urban fantasy. This is no-holds steamy, so know that going in.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3\/5<\/p>\n<p>Title: Desire Unbound (Demonica #2)<br \/>\nAuthor: Larissa Ione<br \/>\nPublished February 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This continues the story of the three incubus doctors\/paramedics who run Underworld General Hospital. In this one, Shade, cursed to become insubstantial if he ever falls in love, falls in love. (Who didn&#8217;t see that one coming?) I did enjoy this and read it even more quickly than the first, partly because I was already [&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-3317","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\/3317","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=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}