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Pleasure Unbound (Demonica, #1)

Larissa Ione

Start date: June 1, 2011

Finish date: July 1, 2011

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Aug 09, 2010 Chelsea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: uf-pnr, smexy, suggested-series-firsts, demons

This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Tayla hunts demons. While out taking out some particular underworld nasties, she’s injured and knocked unconscious. She’s taken to the Underworld General Hospital, where all things underworld are taken to get patched up. She awakens in enemy territory with a super hot doctor taking care of her. She’s all about it until she realizes those taking care of her are the demons, vampires and shifters she kills on sight.

Eidolon built UGH from the gr This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Tayla hunts demons. While out taking out some particular underworld nasties, she’s injured and knocked unconscious. She’s taken to the Underworld General Hospital, where all things underworld are taken to get patched up. She awakens in enemy territory with a super hot doctor taking care of her. She’s all about it until she realizes those taking care of her are the demons, vampires and shifters she kills on sight.

Eidolon built UGH from the ground up, including putting in policies that say no one comes to harm within its walls. And when a slayer comes in, well, that doesn’t make him the most popular guy. A type of incubus, he’s been searching for a mate, because in the near future he’ll come into a new stage of maturity. The new stage will have him trying to procreate constantly, unless he finds someone to bind with for life. And, so far, that hasn’t been going well. He really doesn’t need the drama of saving a slayer and being incredibly attracted to the lethal woman.

Tayla has a false view of demons. Blinded by hatred it’s so hard for her to accept that Eidolon might be doing something for altruistic reasons. As she catches him in moments of care and sincerity, her faith in her demon slaying Order is shaken. She had a dark past that bolster her outlook that all demons are evil. The undeniable sexual chemistry between the two continually brings them back together to help open Tayla’s eyes. I do wish we saw more growth and challenged ideals for Eidolon, but Tayla had enough on her plate to make the Pleasure Unbound a robust tale.

While these two do immediately fall into bed together, there’s still a strong relationship story arc that shows the two slowly — almost begrudgingly on Tayla’s side — learning to trust one another. It’s hard not to enjoy a novel that provides hot bedroom scenes, characters you can care about and relationship growth.

Larissa Ione’s Pleasure Unbound will give you goosebumps and keep you turning pages for more. As we’ve said before, the Demonica series is perfect for fans of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Sexual content: Piles of it.
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Feb 20, 2011 Deea (Andreea) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bbf-recommendation, my-audiobooks, pnr

Well, I'm impressed. For a PNR series, this one is kind of ah-mazing! And I'm ridiculously picky with my PNR books!;) Looking forward to reading the next book!:D (4.5 stars) ...more

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Oct 17, 2010 Book Gremlin Reads rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Pleasure Unbound was a surprise to me. I have had it set aside for some time saying that I would read it later, knowing I might not get around to it. I am really glad I did, I loved Tayla and Eidolon. It kept me hooked and makes me want to read all the books, which I will do starting with the next book!! ...more

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Jan 10, 2011 Dani Quiroz rated it liked it · review of another edition

Seeeeeeeeeeeexy ;)

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Oct 19, 2010 Kaetrin rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook

3.5 stars. Interesting world building, a sexy hero and a kick ass heroine on the plus side. A lot of characters and mythology to keep track of and some forced/dubious seduction at the start and an abrupt end without solving the central suspense plot let the book down a bit but I was nevertheless interested enough to buy and download the reast of the series on the strength of this book.

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