I wasn't able to finish it. It could be that it got better later on in the book and redeemed itself, however, I couldn't hang on long enough to find out.

The blurb made me think that we would see a dark love story. Kyla would embrace the darkness within Azazel and Balthazar and accept them for who and what they are. In the beginning I think I could see it. We get to see a specific misdeed and are able to draw our own conclusions about how we would feel had we been in Kyla's position. I was intrigued at first by the three characters and how they would succeed in fulfilling the promise given in the blurb. It didn't last long. By chapter 5 I was confused by and annoyed with the characters.

If someone flies me to Paris on our first date, takes me to the top of the Eiffel Tower and shoves me off, I'm going to feel something. Fear, anger, SOMETHING. I'm not going to just stand there like nothing happened and I'm certainly not going to kiss him. The reactions by this point are just too unbelievable. I like dark books, I like it when an author challenges me and makes me take a deep look within myself. I didn't feel that way. I felt like I was in the middle of a joke that I wasn't getting and everyone else was laughing but me.

It's probably just me, maybe it was written in a way that only certain people would get it and I'm not that person. I don't know. My suggestion would be that if the blurb and positive reviews give you the information you're looking for, feel free to give it a chance. This is just my opinion.

I received a copy of this title from Net Galley, this had no bearing on my words.

This book was intriguing but I’ll be honest when I say it fell a bit short for me. The catch lines all seem like the kind of book I was going to love and there were parts that really had me. Then there were parts that I just couldn’t get over.

The basic premise is that two demon brothers, Balthasar and Azazel, have a yearly vacation from hell and their jobs as some of Lucifer’s right hand men where they pretty much have the run of wherever they decide to hole up for their holiday. On their latest vacation they decide Lancashire is the place to be, for what reason we never find out. While their they stumble across our heroine Kyla Marshall and what ensues should have been a fun bit of romantic literation, but what is really quite a mess reading wise.

From the get go Kyla kind of rubbed me the wrong way, which I chalked up to being due to something about her past. That intuition was correct to put it mildly. After becoming pregnant by her boyfriend the man proceeds to tie her down and give her an at-home abortion complete with wire coat hanger before he runs off with her mother who he then marries. Blessedly we don’t have to see that part only the emotional aftermath. As the book progressed though Kyla gradually becomes an all-out bloodthirsty crazy who eventually turns murderer. She even wants to go so far as to kill her half-sisters who are the product of her mother and ex-boyfriend’s marriage. This is the woman we’re supposed to be cheering for? By the end of the book I really kind of hated her. I think if the author worked on her character more and made her much more likeable and less psychotic the book would have been miles better.

In the beginning we absolutely can’t stand Azazel. To put it mildly he has no redeeming qualities and appears as psychotic as Kyla turns out to be. They would have been perfect for each other in the villainous way if he hadn’t made a switch for the better gradually through the book. In the end, I liked him loads better than Kyla, although some of his past deeds definitely didn’t make him redeemable enough for me to wish he was sitting next to me in the living room.

Balthasar started out the exact opposite of his brother and I was really thinking he was going to be our main squeeze in the book. Alas I was wrong and while it seems for a while our fickle heroine might end up with the both of them in the end Kyla’s best friend snags him as her man. Where that came from I still can’t figure out, because it was only in the epilogue that we even had Sam and Balthasar in the same room. The author easily could have set up a second book with them as her main couple if she’d desired to do so, but perhaps by the end of the book she hated the plotline as much as we did. In the end he’d done some pretty reprehensible things as well so the psychotic Kyla losing him to the much sweeter Sam wasn’t too hard to swallow.

I enjoyed the author’s writing style I just wish she’d left some of the dark alone. Yes, the guys are demons and we expect them to do some horrible things, particularly in the past but this book really fell short in any romantic capacity and the idea of people, paranormal or not, having many redeeming qualities. I have to say that while I didn’t particularly enjoy the characters themselves I was never bored for a moment. That says something about the flow of the book. I might see what else this author has to offer, although I doubt I’ll be looking into book two of this particular series.

**I received a free ARC of this book for my honest feedback and unbiased review.**