This was pretty good...until it wasn't. This is insta lust/love, so the first chapters are nothing but being crazy into the other stranger. The relationship does grow more slowly, getting to know you, some sexual stuff, and then a few days till actual sex.
Good things: He is a virgin, never even kissed. He is also a bit shy at first, and slowly builds confidence. She is a powerful witch. Watching his progress of accepting his good side. Hellhounds are kind of adorable.
Bad things: Even though she is powerful, she is also clumsy. Some may have a problem with her hitting him; slapping, punching, and kicking. She also enforced magic in the hits which allowed her to actually hurt him. Yes, he did REALLY stupid things while being with the FIRST and only friend/girlfriend. Honestly, she has anger issues, it was supposed to make her more bad like him.
The MOST annoying thing for me was how freaking repetitive this book was. The entire thing was all about how he is evil with a spark of good, but she brings out more good, but he is always going to be mostly bad. I understood the premise, THE FIRST TEN TIMES. Let's put it in perspective.
This is a 200 page book give or take: The amount of times the word was used
Evil- 100 times
Bad- 35
Good-194
Darkness-92
Weak-79
It was overdone. Then after accepting and acknowledging that he was created to be evil, has only been in hell for thousands of years where being evil is a good thing, has killed thousands, has never had a single friend she falls in love. Towards the end of the book, after they have said I love you, after they almost died together, she sees something he did before her and took pride in his evilness. She freaks out and asks him if he really is the monster everyone thinks he is, with no good inside him. This hurts him so much because he already feels like she deserves a much better man, AND he freaking told her he was evil. That bugged me SO much, like don't comfort the evil demon master 90 percent of the way and then turn on him!
The dramatic scenes were okay, like him dealing with a dragon, but kept expecting more with her magic. In the end it leads to an meh ending. Because of his actions before her he has to stay in hell, so she decides to stay with him there. So, a happy for now ending. Also, Apollyon and the devils blood made the hero. He is supposed to be all the evil in both, so Apollyon hates him. He actually is VERY mean in this book. He never wanted to see any good in the hero, so he wrote him off as nothing, not human or demon, just scum. The hero hated being compared to him also. In the end they battle together, but no real conversation about how they will let go of the past happens, and I was bummed.