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This book has a great premise, and I was expecting a sort of dark, mystery that was also sexy, since it involves an incubus. Instead I was pretty bored, but somewhat intrigued...but still bored. I'm actually kind of conflicted on my feelings towards this one. I really like some parts, but they were interspersed with a lot of boring parts.

Callie has studied demon lovers in folklore her whole life, and she's also had dreams of her very own demon lover. When she moves into a small college town, the dreams become more frequent, more real, and even more erotic. She believes it's because of the old house she's purchased, where one of her favorite authors once lived and wrote Gothic Romances. Perhaps reading those unedited drafts have gone to her head? I was very intrigued about the connection between Callie's dreams and the house/manuscripts, but everything that happens outside of that was extremely dull. And it took far too long for something exciting to happen!

There are several subplots woven along side with Callie's demon lover, but at some point they almost took over. Despite the title, the demon lover doesn't have that many scenes, but he seems to always be in the background. I would have liked him to be in the forefront more often, since the other plots simply didn't interest me that much. They also seemed to have nothing to do with the demon lover, and sometimes felt like filler until it started to all come together at the end. However, these extra plots certainly showed that Fairwick holds a ton of secrets.

The Demon Lover had a lot of potential, but in the end it fell flat. It had its suspenseful moments, as well as some sexy moments, but those glimpses couldn't overcome the rest of the drab story. In fact, the most interesting parts were the snippets from the Dahlia LaMotte manuscripts; plenty of quivering thighs and pulsing manhoods!


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Incubus Carol Goodman 9780091940188 Books Reviews

Definitely a good read! keeps you interested and hoping for the storyline to uncover a fairytale ending.
In the same lines as the Trilogy of souls, if you're a fan, I advise for it!
I just re-read the Fairwick trilogy this summer. The story holds up. Carol Goodman has a rare talent for developing a rich setting, deep mythology and beautiful story. You can't go wrong with anything that she has written.
Reading this was like reading a season of Charmed scripts, Harry Potter, and Katherine Woodiwiss novels all rolled into one. It made for a light, quick read that held my interest from start to finish. If you like stories about mystical creatures, a little mystery, and the stream of Gothic bodice rippers this should be right up your alley.
I had high expectations for The Demon Lover. Juliet Dark is a pseudonym for an author I really enjoy Carol Goodman. It might have been my high expectation that made this book fall flat. The overall plot is intriguing enough, but it gets lost somewhere in the details.

The Demon Lover is about Callie, a college professor, who is visited by a "demon lover." It delves into the discovery of the demon lover, the mysterious circumstances at her college in upstate New York, and other magical/mythical themes.

I may just be overloaded with the magical settings (think Twilight, Harry Potter, Discovery of Witches, etc.), but this book just didn't seem to grasp my fictional attention like the others did. I like Carol Goodman's brand of literary suspense and I wish this book had kept up with what she does well. Her characters are usually so well-developed, but I found this book had too many to keep up with to really get involved. I don't often struggle to finish a book, but this one was a fight to the finish. It pains me to say so, but I just didn't enjoy this book.
Wonderful finish to the trilogy
Having been a fantasy lover since my teens, I was not bothered by her eclectic writing style, crazy angles and multiple characters. I loved the interesting and varied elements. I fell in love with the incubus, wondered about who the baddies were, and generally thought it was a fun romp.

What I did not like were the constant inconsistencies Imagine a professor being stupid enough to allow a undergraduate to catalog erotica in their house - and the dean of the college agreeing to it! Callie's immature ability to set boundaries and limits, and the obvious conclusions of the various dramas swirling through it are tiring, although not a deal breaker. The fact that Dark basically eliminates Callie's familiar for one third of the book is bizarre, though. The rule of the smoking gun is a hard limit for me. Use it or cut it. I disliked that she introduced a completely new character to do the dirty work - unconnected to anything else in the story. Reintroducing the three women and appearance of the manacles for immediate use without much explanation or context was jarring. Given her undeveloped connections to them, and the mixed evidence presented, I simply don't believe that her even going through the motions of sending her lover to a permanent hell, without more thought, is all that believable.

So here I am frustrated and grouchy - kind of like after being with a date who leads you on all night and then says he suddenly has to go home without even kissing you goodnight. If this book were a man he would have a lot of 'splainin' to do, as Ricky Ricardo would say. At the end, Callie falls completely out of character. Dark already firmly established that she would be neither mature nor heartless enough to endure knowing he is in terrible pain, possibly for eternity, especially if it could be due to her own actions. It is clear by the final scene she is in love with this creature and knows he has a true heart, as she stands by the door with the key to release him hanging from her neck. There is less than nothing to support the idea that she would walk calmly back toward the house.

Honestly, it feels like her editors decided the book was too long and told her to make it into two or three - but she didn't have the skill and they didn't have the back bone to help her rework the story line to accommodate it. The book is terribly marred by this. Yes, I will read the sequel if I notice when it comes out. For all its flaws I did think it was worth reading.

In the meantime, I say Get on it, Dark, and don't disappoint me again.
This book has a great premise, and I was expecting a sort of dark, mystery that was also sexy, since it involves an incubus. Instead I was pretty bored, but somewhat intrigued...but still bored. I'm actually kind of conflicted on my feelings towards this one. I really like some parts, but they were interspersed with a lot of boring parts.

Callie has studied demon lovers in folklore her whole life, and she's also had dreams of her very own demon lover. When she moves into a small college town, the dreams become more frequent, more real, and even more erotic. She believes it's because of the old house she's purchased, where one of her favorite authors once lived and wrote Gothic Romances. Perhaps reading those unedited drafts have gone to her head? I was very intrigued about the connection between Callie's dreams and the house/manuscripts, but everything that happens outside of that was extremely dull. And it took far too long for something exciting to happen!

There are several subplots woven along side with Callie's demon lover, but at some point they almost took over. Despite the title, the demon lover doesn't have that many scenes, but he seems to always be in the background. I would have liked him to be in the forefront more often, since the other plots simply didn't interest me that much. They also seemed to have nothing to do with the demon lover, and sometimes felt like filler until it started to all come together at the end. However, these extra plots certainly showed that Fairwick holds a ton of secrets.

The Demon Lover had a lot of potential, but in the end it fell flat. It had its suspenseful moments, as well as some sexy moments, but those glimpses couldn't overcome the rest of the drab story. In fact, the most interesting parts were the snippets from the Dahlia LaMotte manuscripts; plenty of quivering thighs and pulsing manhoods!