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Book Review: Demonica Books 1-3

[digg=http://digg.com/arts_culture/Book_Review_Demonica_Books_1_3_by_Larissa_Ione] Yup, it’s another three-book review for the price of one.

Here, I review Pleasure Unbound, Desire Unchained, and Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione.

As a whole, the books are a lot of fun, and full of lots of good hot sex, gorgeous demon men, and fun, feisty women. I enjoyed them wholeheartedly.

Pleasure Unbound introduces us to Underworld General, a hospital that treats demons, shapeshifters, vampires, and assorted otherwordly creatures. The head of the hospital, Eidolon, meets a new patient who isn’t any of these things. Instead, Tayla is a human. A human whose sole purpose in life is to kill vampires, shifters, and demons.

As Eidolon and Tayla explore their forbidden feelings for each other, they also must work together to stop a band of black-market organ thieves. We readers learn about multiple species of demons and the special powers of Eidolon and his brothers Shade and Wraith. These three are Seminus demons, incubi with ridiculously strong sexual gifts and needs.

The intrigues and relationships of all the hospital workers and patients reminded me quite a bit of General Hospital, probably because I was raised on a steady diet of ABC soaps and Diet Coke.

Shade takes center stage in Desire Unchained. As the title implies, there are more than a few chains and whips involved in this book.I didn’t love the BDSM elements in this book–it’s not really my thing–but it was still quite fun to read.

Shade, who carries an inordinate amount of guilt over the deaths of his mother and sisters, is coming up on his sexual maturity, when he will be forced to either mate with a female and eschew all other women, or go insane bedding female after female trying to impregnate them. The typical Seminus demon is killed by a jealous husband before insainty sets in.

Shade meets up with, Runa, a former girlfriend who has since been turned into a werewolf. The organ harvesting ring the brothers thought they shut down in the last book has started back up, and the leader turns out to be someone very close to them with a very macabre plan for bringing the brothers down.

Finally, we move on to Passion Unleashed, Wraith’s story. The book opens after Wraith has reached sexual maturity and has gotten himself infected with an incurable demon disease. The brothers must find a way to save Wraith’s life, because they soon realize that Wraith’s life is not only inextricably linked to the welfare of Underworld General but also to Eidolon and Shade.

The brothers also see the signs of an epic battle brewing between the forces of good and evil, one that could bring about the Armageddon, or the Reclamation, as the forces of evil call it.

Eidolon finds a solution. A woman, Serena, holds a charm that protects the wearer from all manners of physical harm. But while Wraith works to get Serena to willingly give him her charm–it must be given willingly–he finds himself falling for her. Wraith must choose between saving the woman he loves and saving himself, his brothers, the hospital they built, and the entire world.

Find out more about the books at Larissa Ione’s website.