The book is funny and a good rom-com. There seems to have been some good research behind the characters. Excellent plot twists. However. The voice acting on the audio version was hard to follow because there was not a range of voices. It was difficult to listen to.

If you love the smuttiest smut of all the smut, this is the book for you. There is sex in nearly every chapter.
The narration is great.
The smut was little bit much for me but I mean that depends on someone's mood and I am prude today.
Great job!

A really fun, light hearted story that kept me interested until the end!
I have to be honest, whilst reading the beginning of the book I was worried we were going to be in for a case of insta love and no story but that couldn’t have been further from the truth.
The characters are charming and funny, the pace is good and I look forward to the rest of the series!
Great narrator

I was excited about this book, but it ended up falling flat for me and I DNFed at about 30%.

I think the narrative style just didn't work for me. Additionally it was very much an insta-lust story, which is not my favorite.

The narrator did a pretty good job, but I did find it was a bit hard to differentiate which character's POV we were in. This wasn't helped by the switching of POVs mid chapter.

This is the beginning of a fun paranormal romance series. It is full of interesting takes on demonology and the dynamic functions of those who serve Heaven and Hell. My Funny Demon Valentine is sure to become a classic in it's genre and keep readers captivated for the rest of the Hell Bent series. The audiobook will be a great addition for readers to access this adventure and the chaos of accidentally dating a demon.

The description of this book really hooked me, but unfortunately, the narrator did not. I had a *really* hard time following and figuring out what character she was narrating for. I found there was little to no difference between Ash and Eva and the POVs switch halfway through chapters (???).

Because I was trying to play catchup with figuring out what POV we were following, I fell behind on the story. I really wanted to like this book, but I didn't like it enough to continuously backtrack, so unfortunately, I DNF at 20%

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my unbiased opinions.

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This funny and horny PNR is a delightfully easy listen. I appreciated the awkwardness of both FMC Eva and MMC Ash for different reasons, but both are relatable. All the characters were lovable even if they didn't want to be. Eva's mom was almost a better character than her and might need her own spin-off. The demon bros were lovable frat bros all with redeemable qualities. [author:Aurora Ascher|21696668]'s knowledge of Montreal and its culture was very obvious and a great backdrop for a story about two artists. As long as you don't mind lots of horny talk, steamy spice and lots of cussing, this is a comfy, turn your brain mostly off read, but it won't be for everyone. Narrator Kirsten Leigh really helped give that frat boy vibe to the demon bros and was enjoyable to listen to.

😈Secret identities
🎻Violinist meets pianist
😈Curses
🎻Found family
😈Only she sees the real him
🎻Demon MMC
😈Human FMC
🎻Hidden powers

Thank you RB Media via Netgalley for the ALC. All opinions are honest and my own.

I went into this story kind of blindly, not sure as what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount that I liked the story. Eva and Ash were a great couple. I didn’t want to put it down. The audiobook had fabulous narration. The only drawback was there was a slightly too long of a pause between the ending of one chapter and beginning of the next nut since I listened to this as an ARC, they could fix it before it is published. I really liked Aurora Ascher’s writing style. I’m hoping that she will continue the series because I would love to read more about Ash’s brothers.

I honestly didn’t think I’d get approved when I wished for this. The narrator did a great job, but the story just didn’t hook me—I kept getting distracted. Eva kept going on and on about how hot Ash was, how no one else was looking at him, and so on. I tried to push through but could only make it to 13%. That said, if you’re looking for a short romcom with smut and a few laughs, this one might be for you!

The narrator was well chosen and she did a great performance.

The romance and lust is the focus of the story. The other plots kind of disappear a lot. Sweet and funny banter. Not your typical demon. The world building didn’t really do it for me. I wish there was more to the over arching storylines.

I normally really love Paranormal romance books, so I tend to give them a good try....

This was just not it. At least not for me.
This book follows Ash, a cursed demon and Ev,a a human who sees through his curse and finds herself extremely drawn to him.

The story was okay. Quite a bit cheesy, cringe, instalovey, with all the characters in the book just accepting shit and taking each others word for it.

I guess when I think of a demon romance, I want something more from it. I love some tension between characters and this had like zero. I didn't feel their romance at all.

I didn't find the humor in this to be my cup of tea, but I can see how the fast-pace of the book might appeal to others.

I got a copy of this book for free from the publisher in exchange of a review.

dnf 4%

I don't usually shelf books when I abandon them this quickly, but I feel the need to say it: You can tell when a prep has written a book.

🎧 Audiobook: My Funny Demon Valentine-Hell Bent #1

✍🏾 Author: Aurora Ascher -new to me author

📅Publication date: 10/31/21, Audiobook: 2/18/25 | Read: 2/28/25

Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal Romance

Tropes: demons, angels, found family, hidden truths, secret identity

🗣️Narrator: Kirsten Leigh voices all the characters with standouts from Eva and Ash. The reading style brought the text to life, and the author and narrator worked together perfectly. The pacing and flow allowed me to get lost in the story. The narrator paused and announced new chapters and there was a table of contents which helped me follow along.

🏃🏾‍➡️Run Time: 10:21

🌎 Setting: Montreal

👆🏾POV: 3rd person, multiple

⚠️TW: marijuana use-h

Summary: Asmodeus and his 3 brothers have escaped Hell and come to Earth to live freely. Eva is a musician/artist in love with jazz. Ash plays piano and loves jazz too, so when he meets Eva, he's taken with her. All hell breaks loose when Eva is thrown into the demon world.

👩🏾 Heroine: Evangeline "Eva" Gregory -27, a violinist, plays at a jazz club. Able to see through Ash's curse

👨🏾 Hero: Asmodeus "Ash"-cursed demon turns into 7-foot monster; wants to play jazz music but fated to be evil

🎭 Other Characters:
*Belial, Mephistopheles, Raum-Ash's brothers who escaped Hell with him
*Skye-Eva's BFF, just sworn off men for 6 mos.
*Jacqui + Dan- Eva's parents
*Mishetsumephtai-The Hunter
* Naiamah-A succubus Queen of Hell indebted to Belial

🤔 My Thoughts: I requested this based on the title and was surprised how good it was. A demon/human love story with a big reveal at the end. The brothers were hilarious, and I can't wait to read the rest of the series!

Rating: 4/5 ✨
Spice level 4/5🔥 open door, explicit sex

🙏🏾Thanks to NetGalley, RB Media| Recorded Books, and Aurora Ascher for this ALC! I voluntarily give my honest review, and all opinions are my own.

Honestly the first half of this book was hard to read. The second half tho was so fun and I really enjoyed it. The writing isn't my favorite. and Eva was incredibly irritating. The romance itself was okay I did like it and they were cute together. The plot and concept are REALLY good but I feel like it could have used more editing. A lot of this book just annoyed me tbh.

This was such a fun read for me and was shocked at the bad reviews. IGNORE them. This books is super cute & funny. I love these demon boys.

Description
Asmodeus, Prince of Hell, just wants to make music. Jazz, specifically. Unfortunately, he’s a demon. And he’s supposed to be evil.
Clearly, for Ash, a career as a musician isn’t exactly an option. Plus, he’s cursed. Sick of playing by the rules, Ash and his three brothers escape Hell in search of freedom on Earth. But it’s harder than they thought to keep their enemies off their tails . . .
Yet everything changes for Ash when he meets a beautiful violinist who can see through his curse. No matter the risk, he has to have her.
Evangeline Gregory is just your average human. She works at a jazz bar, plays gigs on weekends . . . and, apparently, hallucinates demons.
At least that’s what Eva tells herself when, moments after she meets the man of her dreams, she sees him shift into a 7-foot-tall monster. Not believing her own eyes, Eva decides to investigate and soon finds herself in the middle of a supernatural clusterf**k.. But Ash isn’t the only one keeping secrets, and the search for answers reveals a shocking truth that will change Eva’s life forever. Or maybe just doom it. The path to love can be complete Hell.

Thanks to NetGalley & RB Media for the ARL of this book!

My Funny Demon Valentine
by Aurora Ascher
Narrated by Kirsten Leigh
Book 1 of Hell Bent
RBmedia | Recorded Books

Asmodeos and his three brothers just want to escape Hell and live a normal life on Earth. For Ash, that means a chance to enjoy music and accepting that his curse makes him invisible to women. However, a beautiful violinist not only sees through his curse but also loves his music. Eva was just trying to get to know the smoking hot guy who caught her eye when she witnesses something that just can't be true, so she ignores it and finds out that Ahs is not only hot, he has a pure heart... which makes the fact that he's a former prince of Hell even harder to believe. They'll have to face major revelations and foes from both sides of the divide if they want to see where the music takes them.

Eva and Ash are equally interesting, and it's fun to see them discover things about themselves even as they're getting to know each other. Ascher's decision to give you both sides of the story by jumping from one POV to another and letting you know how everyone is feeling at one time helps their almost instantaneous romance make sense even as everything around it is utterly fantastical.

I'm amazed at how wholesomely sweet some of the scenes and character relationships are in a book that was sold to me on its insane spiciness. It was a nice little surprise that I think helped make it stand out from others like it and has me excited to see what's next for the demon brothers. Because we don't just get Eva and Ash's side of the story, Ascher drops bits and pieces of how the brothers feel and what's happening around them that fill out the world and make it interesting and original.

The narration by Kirsten Leigh is good at getting emotions and growliness into scenes, but there were a couple of times when I wasn't sure if a line was said by Eva or one of the guys.


Delighted thanks to NetGalley and RBmedia for the great listen and getting me hooked on an author new to me!

🅑🅞🅞🅚 🅡🅔🅥🅘🅔🅦 𝓜𝔂 𝓕𝓾𝓷𝓷𝔂 𝓓𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓷 𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮. “It looked like a pug crossed with Gollum. A pig crossed with a bat. A monkey crossed with Yoda who had bashed its face into a brick wall too many times. It was just ugly in every possible way.”
- @aurora.ascher.author way to describe a gargoyle 🤣. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ 4.5
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MY FUNNY DEMON VALENTINE FEATURES EVANGALINE A VIOLINIST WHO HAS A SECRET HER PARENTS HAVE BEEN HIDING HER ENTIERE LIFE FROM HER.
SHE MEETS ASMEODEUS, PRINCE OF HELL WHO IS A LUST DEMON. ASH IS SUPPOSED TO BE EVIL BUT HE IS A HILARIOUS, KIND, DEMON. HE HAS A CURSE THAT NO ONE THINKS HE IS AN INTERESTING PERSON, AND CANT SMELL, TASTE OR FEEL. EVA IS THE ONLY ONE TO SEE THROUGH HIS CURSE. HE ESCAPES HELL WITH HIS BROTHERS AND QUICKLY BECOMES THE UNDERWORLDS MOST WANTED: DUE THEM ALL EXPERIENCING FEELINGS WHICH THEY SHOULDN ‘T FEEL.. THIS BOOK IS A HILARIOUS , PARANORMAL, FANTASY TRILOGY THAT AURORA’S TONE MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD AND CRY. I LITTLERY LISTENED TO THIS BOOK IN ONE DAY IT WAS SO GOOD. THERE ARE TWO MORE BOOKS COMING OUT SOON! I WANT TO THANK @aurora.ascher.author for providing me with a complimentary audio book via @netgalley You are a talented author and i will be listening to the next two books in the hellbent series. 💜 😈

I went into My Funny Demon Valentine expecting a light, holiday-themed romp, but turns out, this has absolutely nothing to do with Valentine’s Day—and honestly, I’m not mad about it. What I got instead was a story with way more depth than I anticipated. It’s funny, yes, but it also has heart, intriguing world-building, and characters that actually feel real (even the demonic ones). I was pleasantly surprised by how invested I became. If you’re looking for something clever, entertaining, and a little offbeat, this one’s worth the read.

**audiobook review** 3* writing, 4* narration

BOOK CONTENT: My Funny Demon Valentine tells the love story of Ash (a demon) and Eva (not a demon) over a period of a couple weeks. Their musical connection was written beautifully, and they are a perfect match in terms of how completely awkward they both are. The plot and world-building were clearly explained and mapped out. The spice was entertaining. Everyone in this book is physically gorgeous, obviously. My main critique is that this book is about 4x longer than it needed to be. Whole chapters had no point, just reiterating things that were said in the previous paragraphs/chapters. Is your memory a little off so that it would be helpful to be reminded about 6000x that Ash is a demon? Then this is the book for you. You also don't need to worry about thought or communication, because the conversations are so, so painfully detailed and repetitive that the reader has no need to process anything, because it will be repeated at least 3 times. The ending was also horribly unsatisfying. Everything is so detailed throughout the book, but then she just screws over Eva's mother completely without any resolution. Why was Rome included? I listened to this book with my partner, who constantly complained about how horrible this book was. I'm still giving it three stars though, because we cracked up laughing so often that this was an enjoyable enough read, even though it was not good writing. The laughing was entirely due to the awkwardness of the characters/conversations and the sheer repetitiveness and pointlessness of so many parts. Did you forget Ash was a demon?!

NARRATION: My Funny Demon Valentine is narrated by a single person. She did a great job differentiating between characters, and added personality to the words. I definitely found her bringing more life to conversations that otherwise would have been excruciatingly painful to read in my head due to their repetitiveness.

A copy of this audiobook was provided by RBmedia via NetGalley for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

This audiobook was everything!! I loved it so much. The characters are great. There was humor, spice, seriousness. It was just a wonderful listen. Top tier.