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“You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.”
— Robert Alton Harris
5 stars – it’s Grim Reaper time baby, oh yeah!
I have mad love for the Demonica series and cannot get enough, so of course as soon as I saw that Larissa Ione had written a novella for Azagoth AKA the Grim Reaper, I was all over it! And I absolutely loved it!! Azagoth has made a couple of appearances in the series so far – most notably as the father of Idess – and finally seeing him in all of his sexy, arrogant, powerful, badass glory was absolutely sensational!
As an ex-angel who ‘volunteered’ to become the Grim Reaper and run Sheoul-gra, the holding tank for demon souls on their way to hell, he also has the dubious privilege of being a breeding stud for heaven, who send him angels to impregnate and produce hybrid children known as Memitim –guardian angels for selected humans. After thousands of years of this, he is understandably over it, and demands a mate of his own.
Heaven has just the angel to send to him – Lilliana – a rare time travelling angel who is sent to Azagoth as a form of punishment, but also with a secret mission.
The fireworks between Azagoth and Lilliana are explosive from the start, and OMG, it’s sensational! Resentful at being stuck where she doesn’t want to be, Lilliana is immediately on the defensive and is a fantastic match for Azagoth, and the banter is pure gold!
“I don’t give a shit what crimes you committed in the past. But let’s be clear on one thing; down here, you don’t fuck with me.”
“Just don’t be surprised if you find yourself riding a bolt of lightning if you piss me off.”
“I’m into kinky shit, so that works.”
Yes, Azagoth is one sexy bastard and he has the mouth to prove it.
His smile became downright wicked. “I can make you beg for the mere whisper of my breath on your skin. I can do things with my tongue that will make you scream with the exquisite intensity of it. And I can make you come so hard, for so long, that you’ll pass out from pleasure.”
Oh yeah, these two together are all kinds of hot! The story is told in dual POV so we can see the mad lust between them, but there is also a deeper side to what they are both going through and I loved getting to see that. Both strong and stubborn with lots of attitude, there is a lot of heart in the story and as they start to trust each other, their deep and dark secrets are revealed and they start to impact on each other’s lives in a way neither of them could ever have imagined.
“Don’t let my calm exterior fool you. There’s a beast inside me that’s capable of horrors you can’t imagine.”
I loved being back in this world! Like the rest of the books in the series it was funny, crude, sexy and heartfelt with a bit of action and a fantastic paranormal element. Being a novella, the pacing is really fast and it’s all very much focussed on the romance between Azagoth and Lilliana, but it was enough to make me truly love these characters, and with a few other things going on, the story is truly captivating. My only complaint is that I wish it were longer. I can never get enough of this series.
I loved it – 5 stars.
For more information about the Demonica series – including series reading order – please check out our Demonica / Lords of Deliverance Series page.