Rating 4.5 stars
This was a highly enjoyable read. This would probably be best described as a urban fantasy, magical harem adventure. When an author uses all those components together, it sometimes can be a mess. Sometimes the author will add the harem or sex component and it will feel forced, or out of place. Or maybe that part is good, but the magic component is lacking, or the story doesn't make any sense. This author did an excellent job of integrating all those components in this book: the sex, the magic, and the story. There was a lot of sex in this book, and it was well written. Even though there was so much sex written, I didn't feel like it overwhelmed the story or was out of place. The sex scenes were hot, however I also felt there was an emotional component involved in the sex which made it that much more interesting. The main character was a nice guy, yes he finds out that he is a Warlock which means his soul is owned by a demon succubus, but that doesn't really make him evil. He doesn't go out of his way to hurt people, in fact he treats the succubus and vampire he is with very well. There is a tendency for authors to write about the master/slave relationship with too much domination. The character is written as a nice guy but the women he is with want to be dominated, so what's a nice guy supposed to do but demean, dominate and humiliate the women he is with? Not because he wants to - oh no, only because they love it so much. This happens way to often and it sometimes makes me uncomfortable. Shawn wasn't like that though in this story. The sex was somewhat more realistic in that it wasn't the same every time. There were times he was aggressive and times he was gentle. He wasn't trying to "break them in half" like in other stories and I enjoyed it more because of that. The magic system was very interesting as well. The difference between mages, warlocks, vampires, werewolves, and the Fae. The story wasn't super involved but it wasn't lacking much either. At the end I rated this book so high because it was a lot of fun, and I really couldn't come up with anything to really complain about.