Cara dreaded returning home from Chicago – but with no job
and no job prospects, she didn’t really have much choice but to return to the small
town of Eden
And get a job with the mysterious and wealthy Dax Allard – but an encounter with a hellhound and a strange mystical connection has made this small town far more exciting than she imagined.
I am often wary of romance in books – not because I’m
against a romance plot, but because there are so many ways a romance plot can
be written to guarantee I’ll hate it. What are those ways? Well there are
several. And they’re in this book.
All of them.
Cara and Dax meet and LOVE STRIKES! Special Woo-woo love
that means she is now his betrothed (which totally doesn’t mean the same as what
we usually mean by that word – it also includes a compulsion to murder as
well). She is dramatically attracted to him at first sight, tearful at the idea
of his rejection and neither of them can stay away from each other. No development, no character (at all), no
relationship, no interaction – just ZING INSTA LOVE FOREVER! Not only
insta-love, but she is addictive to her – even her smell (like a certain
sparkly vampire we may know) meaning it’s almost impossible for him to be
around her without a relationship happening (at least in the beginning of the
book, not so much by the end because consistency is not one of this book’s
strong points).
Dax is a demon which makes him super dangerous and deadly
to Cara – but she doesn’t care! She has known him for precisely 2 seconds and
will now be with him forever EVEN IF HE MAY EAT HER SOUL! Of course he nobly
warns her several times which she just completely ignores, maybe pausing long
enough to insist that he’d never hurt her because she just knows. She’s also
the one to keep pushing for the deadly soul eating sex because life and limb
meaning nothing to this woman.
Being a noble love interest, Dax decides to protect Cara
by staying away from her – something she takes as devastating, tearful
rejection. In a job interview. Yes because he’s a complete stranger looking to
employ her and him not doing so is enough to cause an epic tantrum of “it’s not
fair!!!!” Frankly, I wouldn’t have hired her anyway, because she went to this
interview for a job she needed and wanted and didn’t bother to research it
first – not even realising Dax was a person, not a company. She googled him
after the fact.
And while Dax is a demon he’s a super-special nice demon, not only abstaining from human souls (a demon vegetarian? Do they have golden yellow eyes) but being a special kind of demon that has SUPER BINDING LOVE.
We have a love triangle – but not really. There’s a guy,
James, who’s really into Cara but she doesn’t like him that way – so she
invites him to talk in the middle of the night, hugs him a lot and generally
keeps him hopeful and he remains on call. He constantly worries about Cara
being in an abusive relationship because Cara, well, basically keeps sending up
red flags that she’s in an abusive relationship.
