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Demon Can't Help It

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We met the selfish sensual demon Maksim in the last book in Love's New Orleans paranormal romance series (Any Way You Want It, I Want You To Want Me) - Maksim was playing boy toy to Ren and Vittorio's psychotic mother while trying to find his missing sister. Maksim is still hunting for his sister, but he gets a bit distracted from his search when Jo (friend to former leading ladies Erika and Maggie) relocates to New Orleans. Maksim is intrigued by Jo because, unlike all other living breathing human females, Jo completely ignores him. The bruises to his ego fuel Maksim's pursuit of Jo, but his attraction to her takes on a life of his own and soon he's not acting very demonish at all. And though Maksim's positive a demon can't fall in love, it isn't long before he's doing a pretty good imitation.

I know I am running the risk of being repetitious, but I do so love it when bad boys go good. Author Love does an excellent job with Maksim, as his initial shallow motives become more complicated and he has to deal with the bewilderment of handling all of his new undemonlike feelings and *gasp* Maksim, the prince of the eight circle of h*ll, is forced to cope with Jo's multiple rejections.

Jo is a bit irritating and angsty in the first few chapters with her fear that, since she is 'seeing' people who are not there, she is going nuts and her constant mental talk about not thinking about the consequences of the unfortunate affair that caused her to relocate from D.C gets a bit old. But once her 'secret' is out in the open she improves as a character, ends up being worthy of Maksim's love, and ultimately ends up dealing with Maksim's secret in a suprisingly mature way.

The story line with Maksim's sister is resolved here, but it is so thin as to be almost nonexistent. I am guessing that her presence is solely to have a character to carry forward for another book - which by the way, I'll be reading. I enjoyed the leading men and the romances in the previous two books (though I still think 'Lampir' is a lame name for an emo vampire) but Demon Cant' Help It is the best of the series. I loved Maksim and his HEA and with the great job Love does with her first demon lover, I can't wait to see Love's demoness in denial.

I liked it! "Demon Can't Help It" by Kathy Love was funny. The heroine irked me a bit by being wishy-washy and wimpy at times, but the hero...my, my, my. I want a Maksim of my own.

Jo doesn't believe in the paranormal. Pretty inconvenient now that she's seeing ghosts! Or maybe she's just going wacko? Either way, something's wrong and Jo's move to New Orleans to be near her friends doesn't seem to be helping. Now she's involved (and how the heck did THAT happen) with a smoking hot guy who seems to be perfect...and we all know there's no such thing.

Maksim is a demon. That's right: damned, delicious, and diabolical. He's ruler of the eight level of hell and darn proud of himself. He's selfish (HEY, he's a demon), he's sexy, and he can get any woman he wants, human or other. So why is he suddenly chasing (!) this human woman? And having these...these Feelings! But no matter how hard he tries, he just can't get her out of his head. What's a demon to do?

Funny and fun to read. Although you may want to smack Jo around a bit, Maksim makes the books worthwhile. All the Kathy Love books I've read so far are paranormal, sexy, and humorous--and that's a hard mix to do well! If you've read her previous New Orleans BRAVA imprint books, you'll get to read about some old friends which was just icing for me. Love has some of the funniest banter out there and her heroes are always yummy. That's enough for me!

Oh my what a fantastic book this was. I was so hoping that Ms. Love would write a book on Maksim because he was so bad in "I want You to Want Me." He is hot, sexy and cannot get enough of sex, but not with the same woman, until he meets Jo, Then he slowly turns from selfish, bed hopping, uncaring, (but sensual) Demon to something that he thought he would never be and never wanted to be. And, oh boy, the ride to that end is so fun. Maksim had me laughing out loud. One just had to love his character. He is witty and very sensual. I could not put the book down. "I want You to Want Me" was an okay read, and "Anyway You Want It" was as well, both of which the hero was a Lampire which means they suck energy instead of blood which sucks! But Ms. Love's "Demon Can't Help it" was a turn for the better. Who cares about the typos, and there are only a few, when the book is a fun, great read!

Picked this book up at a library book sale... and so for what I spent ($1) it was OK. The story was decent except that I got tired of Jo (or as they spell it near the end of the book "Joe") freaking out, calling Maksim, and then refusing to explain to him what she's freaking out about. This behavior continued throughout the book. That aside, the story held my attention... as did the HUGE amount of typos. I have never in my life seen a book with so many typos (as others have said). Not just words misspelled but extra words in sentences -- like when you edit a sentence but a word from the previous version of the sentence gets left in. About one-third of the way through the book I actually considered getting a pencil and marking them as I went along. Kind of a "where's Waldo" proofreading game. For those who have read it, you will know what I mean... for those of you contemplating reading the book, I say go ahead, but be prepared for the typos to trip you up throughout the book. Seriously, you CANNOT go more than a few pages without the typos. I think they actually become more plentiful toward the end. In many cases, there are multiple typos on the same page. I don't think anyone proofread this book... and if they did, they should resign or be fired. NO EXCUSE FOR THIS MESS!

Josephine Burke denies the paranormal exists and if they did she thought they should be dispatched to hell. Instead she prefers her two feet on solid ground not in some silly supernatural urban fantasy. However, lately she has some problems sleeping as her nocturnal dreams involve her new co-worker Maksim Kostova giving a hickey or something similar to a seemingly dead girl.

The newcomer is irate with himself over his attraction to the prejudicial mortal. Maksim wants to ignore her, but cannot. However, he believes if she ever learned what species he is, she would walk away in disgust. Still he has a flicker of hope when she tells him about seeing a dead woman; unwilling to reveal her fantasy starring Maksim.

DEMON CAN'T HELP IT is an amusing paranormal romance with wet dreams that keep Jo (and readers) awake at night. In daylight she denies her nocturnal desires by insisting she just needs a man; that is a mortal man. Maksim's self-flogging muses make the tale so much fun as he wonders how in hell (at least the eighth circle which he called home for eternity) could he fall in love with a denying biased b**ch. Readers will love this "fangtastic" author's latest urban fantasy romance (see I WANT YOU TO WANT ME) in which devil's food cake is a house specialty.

Harriet Klausner

I agree with other reviewers that there were so many misspellings and typos. I can't believe this got through the editors, but perhaps it wasn't edited. If it was edited, it was edited by an idiot. I did enjoy the story, this was my first book by this author. I will watch for more. It was a sweet romantic story. I did guess wrong though as what was going on with Jo. I won't spoil the story by saying why. All in all, enjoyed the book, but, PLEASE, edit the next book!!

Kathy Love writes sexy, fun, fantastic stories. Demon Can't Help It is another in a line of stories about vampires, friends and family. Jo is a good friend of two other characters (from previous books), who moves to New Orleans to escape her past and be with her friends. While there she meets a demon bartender, Maksim, and is so over men that she doesn't pay him any mind. This infuriates him and drives him to do very very silly things. Quick entertaining read.

Really enjoyed this one!! I thought that Kathy Love did an excellent job with the characters; especially, a demon one. Not your typical paranormal romance which is why I loved it!! Grabs you right away, and does not stop until the end. Fast and easy read!!!

This book is the lighthearted, fun read you can expect from Kathy Love. I particularly like her because her steamy love scenes still fit the story. They're not just stuck in as smarmy gimmickry like some romances.

So great story, but Kensington - what were you thinking?! This book is riddled with typos and grammar errors! It's full of incorrect word choices, missing words, and weird verb tense changes.

It's not enough just to run spellchecker and it's really, really irritating to keep reading "the" instead of "he" or "guild" instead of "guide!" Kathy's earlier books aren't like this, so somebody get the editor a nice cappuccino!

and my oh my... if the demon could be like Maksim! This story was kind of predictable but I still couldn't put it down. The typos and misuse of words really got on my nerves. I'd have to read a line several times to make sure I wasn't reading something wrong. None of that is the authors fault though. I love how the author always makes her stories have some element of humor in them. This story was no different. It was sweet, funny and for sure sexy. As previously stated the story was really predictable... the pregnancy, Maksim's sister. Most of that was really figured out within the first 1/2 of the book. One other thing that was a little bothersome. Throughout most of the book you kind of forget that Maksim is a demon. It seemed there wasn't a whole lot of detail or mention of that. All in all a really good and fun story.