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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780425213810
ISBN number: 0425213811
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: March 06, 2007
Publishing house: Berkley Trade
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Four never-before-published paranormal tales from a quartet of top- tier talents.
In the realm between the living and the undead, between human and immortal, four of today's most thrilling authors explore the delight that ensues when opposites come together...
New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson challenges a charlatan exorcist with a sexy dead woman-and an unnatural romance.
USA Today bestselling author Emma Holly introduces a beautiful scientist to the realm of the Demon World...and an irresistible male she has experimented on.
National bestselling author Vickie Taylour throws a hell-bent man into the arms of a beautiful dark angel who is driven by ethereal desires of her own.
And award-winning author Catherine Spangler gives a vampire prostitute a last chance at redemption when an angelic hunk offers her a night of divine lovemaking.
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Mary Janice Davidson is the queen of chick lit meets fantasy. I would recommend any book with her name on it.
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All the stories that I read were interesting and fun to read. Especially my two favorite writers Maryjanice Davidson and Emma Holly.
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I'm still not quite sure why they named this anthology "Demon's Delight," when there was more angels and vampires than demons. The cover illustration was fabulous and that's pretty much the best amount of praise I can give this book. It included four short stories. The very first was the best of the lot. MaryJanice Davidson wrote a little diddy called Witch Way which I found amusing and lite. There was not alot of research or weight to the story and if it was a full length book I would want to poke holes in it with a stick, but for a short story with limited space, I thought the characters were witty and cute. As far as Catherine Spangler's short story, I felt as though I had to go to church after I finished reading it. The vampire hooker who thought she was evil and the angel come to life who couldn't stop picturing himself having sex with her was just way too far gone for me. Emma Holly brought me back to her Yama Demons. If you've read her two novels with the Yama Demons, you probably would enjoy this one, but if you have never read them, you would be totally confused. This is world with morals far different than our own. Vicki Taylour just bit. I thought it was awful and boring. I hope this helps.
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This is a decent anthology and Holly and Davidson do a decent job. I would buy this again. About half of the stories were pretty good, the other half were pretty pedestrian. More romantic erotica with a veneer of paranormal romance than paranormal or fantasy. Using 'demon' in the title is rather misleading.
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Of the four stories in this collection, there's one that's completely worth it, one three-quarters worth reading, one half-worth, and one not worth bothering with, in my opinion. So, a total of 2 and a quarter stories out of 4, that's 56%, which is not a passing grade, most places.
The very first story, "Witch Way," is by Mary Janice Davidson, and she's always funny. Even when the premise is lightweight and more than a little silly, her characters have such snappy dialogue that it's enjoyable. This story doesn't involve any of her regular series characters, no werewolves or vampires. It also doesn't have much to do with demons; the only demons are the ones Chris Mere, the witch, vanquishes. There is a cute little kid.
The second story, "Street Corners and Halos" by Catherine Spangler, has nothing at all to do with demons. It's vampire prostitute meets angel, and while the moral of the story is as subtle as a brick, the interesting twists to the usual vampire stuff make this worth reading, even if you can see the ending coming a mile away. The background of Jewish religion - which doesn't really have angels in the way that the Christian religions do - meeting up with a Christian-type angel, except that he refers to his Goddess, She, rather than a male god, makes for a nice contrast, and does offset the overly saccharin goodness of the angel. As a paranormal story in general, it's not bad at all, as a vampire story in particular, there's not enough of it to really characterize it. Oh, there is a cat, which is always a plus in a story.
The third story, "The Demon's Angel" by Emma Holly, is apparently based on a concept that the author has also put into a couple of novels, where the demons are some sort of mutant humans living in an alternate world, where they have genes and chromosomes and all, and are doing genetic research, for which they need human subjects. I found this premise to be so offputting that I didn't finish the story. My own preference is that people keep science fiction and fantasy separate; trying to put a science fiction veneer onto demons and a lot of sex winds up, to my mind, bringing out the worst aspects of both science fiction and of the paranormal. The romance was, as far as I could tell, nonexistent, unless by romance you mean plain lust. Other people who don't mind completely illogical squishing of science fiction over fantasy with neither making any sense, may like this story better than I did.
The fourth story, "Angel and the Hellraiser" by Vickie Taylor, was another angel one - again, no demons whatsoever. It was full of cliches, but it was not totally bad, and the ending was not quite as saccharin as the second story, the other angel one. So this is the half-okay one.
In short: a book with demons in the title has more stories with angels than with demons; one humorous, two that take their paranormal elements a little too seriously, and one that does a bad job of trying to turn paranormal into scientific. You decide whether it's worth it; if you already like one of the authors, then you probably want to read this book just so that your collection of that author is complete.
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