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So I Married a Demon Slayer

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This collection has three devilish little romances, connected to the authors 'once and future' series - I was lucky enough to snag this book as part of a Kindle Bundle along with George's Demon Hunting In Dixie and Love's Demon Can't Help It.

Hot! by Kathy Love, has an aspiring fashion photographer trying to get a break, taking a mail room job at the industry's most successful magazine, and discovering that the fashion business is truly hell - this one has an odd sort of dreary beginning - the glamor of the mail room is everything that you'd imagine - but picks up when the photographer meets a super model whose life is not so super. Both of the pair are truly likeable and the story is much more enjoyable after they hook up, but the ending is so abrupt that, even for a short story, it felt like a chapter or two was lopped off of the ending. Edited to add - Okay, it took me a while to connect the dots, but this looks like a prequel to Love's upcoming Devilishly Hot, so even though this pair aren't the leads in the book, maybe we'll see more of them there.

What Slays in Vegas by Angie Fox, is connected to her Demon Slayer series- even though there is no road kill cuisine - A celibate Demon Slayer gets caught up in the moment with a half succubus at a Vegas club containing a portal to hell - the transition from enemy to lover for the demon slayer is a bit quick but I liked the succubus and her friends. I am a book or so behind on the series and have a feeling that the Demon Slayer might be a side character in Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers, so this one will probably be more fun for fans.

The Bride Wore Demon Dust by Lexi George - set in George's Demon Hunting In Dixie's Hannah Alabama - A bride's new life gets off to a hellacious start, when a demon possessed wedding photographer tries to kill the her and she discovers that her new husband is not human either - this was my favorite of the three shorts. It managed to pack in a fair amount of story and a healthy dose of the offbeat humor that made George's Demon Hunting in Dixie so irreverently fun.

I was under the impression this was a continuation of the Demon Slayer series, so was very confused until I came back and read these were 3 novellas. The stories are cute though. Would have liked to see more on the first one about HOT!

"Hot!" by Kathy Love. Wannabe photographer Charlie Brown joins the mailroom of At Hot! Magazine with hope to show his work to the professional staff. However, he is unprepared for the dynamics of a demon CEO, a mailroom of undercover demon slaying Feds, and supermodel Ava Wells whose soul belongs to the devil and whose heart belongs to Charlie.

"What Slays In Vegas" by Angie Fox. In Vegas Damien the demon slayer targets the employer of hybrid succubus Shiloh. Instead the slayer and the succubus break a prime taboo when they end up married.

"The Bride Wore Demon Dust" by Lexi George. Sweet Home Alabama native Bunny the librarian is irate when demons controlling guests wreck havoc on her wedding. Her new husband is a slayer, but she is not one to sit idly by while he throws out the unwanted gatecrashers.

These three lighthearted paranormal romances star male demon slayers and the females who possess their hearts. The storylines are emaciated even considering these are novellas, but the lead characters in each entry brings marital bliss to the tales.

Harriet Klausner

Review Courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty: Three light-hearted reads that are good for any day of the week.

The Review:

"HOT!" by Kathy Love

This story takes place in the brutal world of high fashion publishing in the otherwise beautiful present day New York City. A one-time small town girl from Kansas, Addy Wellmeyer, now known as Ava Wells, has sold her soul to a demon in exchange for a promise of fame and fortune. Now she just wishes for the simple things in life. Charlie Bowen is still that same small town boy from Ohio, willing to risk it all for a chance at his own fame and fortune as a high profile fashion photographer. But little does he know that he may very well be risking everything to work for these particular "people". He is a little more talented than he thought, and the world is quite a bit stranger than even he dreamed. Cute premise, cuter story... wondering if there are more.

Rating: 4/5

"What Slays in Vegas" by Angie Fox

This story takes place in current day Las Vegas and has a rather human like premise; basically What Happens in Vegas meets CSI. You see, succubus Shiloh and undercover demon slayer Damien meet each other in a casino and end up married after a night of sex, drinks and rock and roll. When reality sets in the next morning, neither can remember what happened that night, but both are quite obviously wearing rings on their fingers. For entirely different reasons, neither of them are supposed to take on a spouse, or have any deeper feelings for anyone, much less each other. After the truth is revealed, Damien feels he must find a way to satisfy both his job and his soul, by taking down the demons he was after while saving his half-breed wife.

There is, I am assuming, some conceptual tie-ins with the rest of Angie Fox's Accidental Demon Slayer series, but it is not necessary to have any back story to enjoy this novella. And I certainly enjoyed this story.

Rating: 4/5

"The Bride Wore Demon Dust" by Lexi George

Welcome to Hannah, Alabama. Your average sleepy little town.....or is it? Bunny Nicole Raines is a small town librarian with a name that belongs in the lineup of your closest gentlemen's club who suddenly lands a man straight out of every woman's personal wet dreams. When a whirlwind courtship leads to a perfect wedding, Bunny thinks she has it all...until something happens during her reception.

Rafe Dalvahni is a groom with a rather large secret, one he's even been keeping from his bride. You see, he's an immortal demon slayer from another planet. And, when he has to fight a demon to protect his bride, well, you could say the cat gets let out of the bag. Needless to say, the bride isn't all that happy, and Rafe must spend the rest of the story convincing her that he is best bet. That is, if he can convince himself first.

I definitely felt completely out of the loop while reading this novella. I am left with more than a few questions about her species, concepts, settings, and the all around plotlines. Maybe, reading the previous story, Demon Hunting in Dixie, would shed a bit of light upon the subject. I think I'd like to revisit this story after reading the first one. Maybe I would like it more.

Rating: Not Sure

FTC Advisory: Kensington Books provided me with a copy of So I Married a Demon Slayer. No goody bags, sponsorships, "material connections," or bribes were exchanged for my review.

What a tangled web they weave these Demons lol All the stories were fun to read and quick to get through. I like a fun read from time to time.The first story by Kathy Love was a little hard to follow at first but the story fell together quickly. Hunky photographer and hot Demoness Model make for a great read! I don't want to give away the story lol The love scene is spectacular!The next story by Angie Fox is quite delicious as well. What starts off a by the book feeding on lust turns into a crazy night and marriage. I laughed like crazy reading this story. The tangle of crazy things that happen really get you. Your sure to enjoy this one, it keeps you reading right to the end.The last story by Lexi Goerge ends the book perfectly! Vivacious and ready to kick evil butt with a Hotty hubby to be can a story get any more interesting??? Nope this story is hopping with action, laughs and some serious love.Hope you all get a chance to read this one because WOW what a fun book! You'll want to finish it all in one sitting!
Leanne

So I Married a Demon Slayer
By: Kathy Love, Angie Fox, Lexi George
Copyright: September 2011
Publisher: Brava (Paranormal Romance)

Hot! By Kathy Love
At Hot! Magazine, the devil really does wear Prada. When the CEO is an actual demon and the mail room guys are undercover demon slayers, it's not beyond the realm of possibility for an up-and-coming photographer and a model possessed by much more than a sweet tooth to fall in love.
What Slays In Vegas by Angie Fox
When a sexy succubus comes up against a fearless demon slayer intent on killing her boss, a truly wild Vegas night turns into a quickie wedding. But in a city where anything goes, a demon slayer wedding a succubus is strictly forbidden. Which doesn't mean either is rushing to jump out of the marriage bed.
The Bride Wore Demon Dust by Lexi George
He's perfection in a tuxedo--more so out of it--and on a mission to protect his Alabama gal from the mysterious mayhem intent on her destruction. But the bride is a spunky steel magnolia with special powers of her own, determined to drop-kick evil forces across the state line and give her slayer a run for his money.

So I Married a Demon Slayer is a trio of novellas based on a common theme.
Hot! By Kathy Love
Finola White the CEO of Hot! Magazine is a real demon. She is also a Micro Manager of everyone who works for her. She also insists that everyone who works for her is physically handsome or beautiful. Finola fires or disappears people who displease her and is now faced with having to replace a worker in the mail room. What that poor person did is never quite explained. Now enter Charlie, a young man who feels his future is in fashion photography (he is actually quite good). He applies for the mail room position to get a foot in the door, and hopes that he will have the opportunity to show his portfolio to someone who can help him with his dream. Charlie finds the people in the mailroom rather strange, but figures it won't matter if he just does his job and moves up the ladder to his dream.
Along the way he will meet the beautiful Ava Wells, a Super Model who he dreams of doing a photo shoot with one day. Ava and Charlie will meet under strange circumstances one evening and their lives will take new directions. This story is hot and steamy, and full of surprises.

What Slays in Vegas
What do you get when you cross a half human succubus with a demon slayer? You get a formula guaranteeing a great story. Shiloh is on the bottom of the pile (succubus wise), she is only given enough work to keep her barely fed. She begs a job with more teeth and ends up in the bed of Damien. One drunken evening later, the two wake up and find themselves married. Oh the shame of it. HE, married to a succubus. SHE, married to a demon slayer. Damien and Shiloh both want the same thing. She wants free from her boss, and he just wants to get rid of the demons. It's gonna be a bumpy, sexy ride. You just have to read this.

The Bride Wore Demon Dust
The bride (Bunny Nicole Reines) is gorgeous in her white gown. The Groom (Rafe Dahlvani) is the reason tuxedos were invented. Bunny is (or was) human, Rafe if a time and dimension hopping demon hunter. He saved Bunny's life, and shared his own life force with her to keep her alive. Dahlvani don't have feelings. Dahlvani don't fall in love. Somehow Bunny's charms and his very new feelings are going to lead them into a very long and interesting marriage. That's all I'm going to tell you for now. Read the story, have a laugh, and be titillated by their love.
FTC Full Disclosure: I received this book from the publisher, who did so hoping for a fair and impartial review.

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This is a light and fun paranormal romance anthology about sexy demon slaying men falling in love. Angie Fox was the only author I was familiar with, but I was looking forward to trying out the new authors. I think novellas are the perfect medium for this purpose.

The first story Hot! was disappointing. The story didn't really go anywhere and there wasn't any real conclusion to the story. It also wasn't done in the silly humorous way the other two stories were so I felt like it clashed thematically. There also wasn't any passion between the couple or much of a conflict in the plot to encourage their romance to grow.

The second story What Slays in Vegas was fun and had some really hot smexy parts. There was even a virginal hero. Well, he was at the beginning of the story ;) When the two woke up after a night of crazy sex and found pictures of their wedding and night on the town I LOL'd. I have always enjoyed Fox's sense of fun. The story got a little silly with the hero saving theme, but I was smiling the whole time. Here is one of my favorite passages:

He was suppose to to break into Napthulo's casino. He was suppose to drug a succubus into giving him the pass-word to the demon's inner sanctum. He was suppose to slay Napthulo to blow the whole operation sky high.
Instead, he had sex, got married and made tiger faces outside the MGM Grand.

The last story The Bride Wore Demon Dust was my favorite. It was hilarious! I loved reading about Bunny as she learned on her wedding day that her husband wasn't who she thought he was. Her inner conversations about Smart Bunny vs Dumb Bunny were a riot to read. Rafe is an arrogant demon slayer from another world and I wanted to smack him as he constantly lamented about how he didn't have human feelings of love and therefore couldn't need Bunny, but their story was just as sweet as it was funny. The secondary characters were even fun to read. I will definitely look into other stories by Lexi George. Here is an example:

Oh, good Lord, she'd hired a plague-infested photographer. Everybody at her wedding was going to die of a pernicious, infectious disease, and there would be dead bodies and stray body parts everywhere.
Eww.
The Caterer would be pissed. She'd probably lose her deposit.

After reading these stories you will be looking for your own demon slayer cause apparently they are *really good in bed ;)

3 Demon Slaying Sheep

It is an okay read. Do not expect it to be a continuation of the Accidental Demon Slayer Series-it not! No where as well written or as good. The stories are just OK, just above boring. Instead of sitting down and reading this through in 3-4 hours it took 2-3 weeks to get through and I kept finding other things to read in between that zipped along and kept my interest much better. If it hadn't cost what it did, I would not have bother to make myself finish reading this. I doubt this will be long before it winds upo on the freebie book list-at least there I HVE found some really fun reads that were well worth the cost and would have PAID more that free for! This is not worth the money-half or less than I paid, yes!

A half-human, half-succubus, all Shiloh really wanted was a new assignment in Lust. Even though she was half-succubus, it was the only way she could eat, by feeding off men's desires, and she was starving. Bribing her superior with a case of Fitz's, Shiloh practically runs to her newest assignment.

Damien has lived his life by the slayer rules. On a mission to stop the most powerful demon in Vegas before he opens a portal and unleashes hell on earth, Damien plans to use a succubus to achieve his gains. After all, demons were all the same, right? And then Shiloh saunters into his life.

After a night of combustible passion, Shiloh and Damien awaken to find themselves hitched, but neither of them can remember the wedding. For a succubus, marrying a human was a deathsentence and caused the total loss of her powers. Damien is supposed to slay demons, not fall in love with them. Yet as they work together to stop her boss they discover there's more to love than the battle between good and evil, and that sometimes what happens in Vegas shouldn't stay in Vegas.

Angie Fox has done it again! What Slays In Vegas is a fantastic addition to her Demon Slayer Series. Ms. Fox dishes up the laughs with her delightful premise and shows us that even a demon can fall in love. Readers will love the interplay between Shiloh and Damien. From the moment I began reading I was hooked and didn't stop until the last page. I heartily enjoyed this quick read from start to finish!

totally unhappy that i was mislead. this title suggests its the continuing story of angie fox's demon slayer series. its instead 3 novellas from other authors.