Rating: 4.5✨⭐️
In the series penultimate story, author Deborah Wilde really kicks things up into the anticipated narrative high gear as the characters and storylines head towards the end.
Yes, this finishes on an agonizing climax and cliffhanger. Just a FYI.
Wilde does excellent work in continuing to make the Jewish faith, culture and religion, as well as history a major factor and foundation for the world building and characters. It’s seamless storytelling while still being able to create a compelling paranormal universe that has vampires and demons, half demons and other otherworldly beings as a part of the plot and as citizens.
This is a rich tapestry of beings that inhabit a complex layered universe of political magical powers, scheming, racial dynamics, and horrors. To go along with the typical vices of greed, overwhelming need for power and revenge.
Agent Aviva, her Maccabee director mother, Michael, hopefully bf Vampire Crimson Prince Ezra, and team are fighting multiple battles and investigating each crimes. Her demon father and his vampire mob boss father are both threatening each of them in various ways.
And a new , more complicated villain has appeared.
Aviva has yet to totally accept her demon self, still referring to herself as Cherry Bomb, a separate entity rather than herself. Hiding her true nature is getting to be a bigger part of her story and the overall theme here. It’s so important and well done.
Each character has depth and damage in their background. Issues they are very much still working through as events unfold. It’s challenging and a realistic growth in a paranormal world.
Highly recommended, the author too!
Cover by: Covers By Christian.
Bedeviled:
Big Demon Energy #1
Demon on Deck #2
Better the Demon You Know #3
Demon in Disguise #4
The Demon’s Due #5 – series finale
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Demon in Disguise: An Enemies-to-Lovers Urban Fantasy (Bedeviled Book 4)
Blurb
Welcome to Vancouver, where the coffee’s strong, the magic’s stronger, and the murders are getting personal.
With tensions between the magic and non-magic communities already at a breaking point, Aviva goes undercover on a murder case that could shatter the city’s fragile peace. As if that weren’t enough pressure, she uncovers a deadly connection to demons—and her own past.
But why have one code red crisis when you could have two? Enter the Ashbishop: a shadowy figure convinced a vampire breeding ritual is a good idea.
Spoiler alert: it’s not.
And forget juggling stolen moments with Ezra between supernatural smackdowns. Fed up with her work-life chaos, Aviva realizes that sometimes, the best disguise is no disguise at all.
Cherry Bomb is ready for her close-up.
Featuring a smart, funny heroine and a banter-fueled vampire romance, this wickedly addictive urban fantasy will keep you reading way past bedtime.
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- Publisher: Te Da Media Inc.
- Publication date: January 20, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 348 pages
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