Demonica Series Question *SPOILERS* (don't click if not totally finished)

[Jessica]

Ok....just finished Pleasure Unbound. I enjoyed the ride for the most part. I wasn't a huge fan of Tayla, but the demons were awesome. I had already decided half way through that I would pick up the next few books if they were about Shade and Wraith.

But now I need to know something from someone who has read the next book or so of this series. The thing about Wraith at the end.....what the hell? They just left that completely untouched! It was the whole reason behind EVERYTHING that happened. And it was just left to nothing.

As much fun as the book was, I need to know if it gets resolved or explained. I don't need to know how they explain it. I just need to know if I should spend anymore time with the series. Ending the book with a "this thing happened and that's why everything is messed up! We don't know what it is, and we can't figure it out, so let's move on with life!" just gets to me.

I'm not expecting world class literature, but that seems broken. Unless it gets addressed later.

[Sam]

I've got up to the third book. Don't worry - the whole Wraith thing is covered in the second book.

[Jessica]

Oh yay! Thanks! Really glad to hear that. :)

[Sam]

I know, I finished it and was like "Wait, what?" The organ black market plot felt half solved. Plus they kept mentioning Shade's curse and never explained it. But they clear up both pretty quick in the next one.

[Jessica]

Totally my thoughts. I was ok that they didn't talk about Shade's curse because I knew the next book was about him. But I was really worried about the Wraith double issue. I actually picked up the next book last night and have my delicious answers even just a few chapters in. :)

[Audra]

I can't wait to read books two and three. I've read four and five already cause my library sent them first.

[Jessica]

Now I've finished 2 and have just started 3. I've been pleasantly surprised by the good story telling and how details in book 1 turned into important plot pieces in 2. I quite honestly just expected some fun, fluffy sexy times out of this series, but this is really an enjoyable read.

Wonder if I'll get the the main pick this month. =P

[Tegan]

Honestly, the whole series I just kept wanting some solid time on Ky and Gem and I got rather frustrated in my desire for a solid focus on them. It was a pretty well done tension play and evolution between the two, then all of a sudden *poof* it's perfect and hey she's preggers and they're even more of side characters now. Just something about the two of them I found more compelling than the other relationships.

[Jessica]

Now that I've finished the third book....I kind of agree, Tegan. I was loving how everything in that book was going. But the scene with the angel really kinda threw me off.

Ky and Gem were great to follow and I really wanted to see how that turned out, but it didn't just wrap up. That was literally divine intervention making everything as perfect as it could possibly be. I understand the need to tie it up, but it was off-putting.

3rd book was a great ride though. The overly sappy ending was a bit much, but I saw it coming. I really enjoyed it as a whole.

[Anna]

I've read 1, 2 and 3 now. I liked 1 and 3 the best. I definitely won't read any further in the series, but I thought wraith and Serena's story was the most touching... And sexiest :)

Unlike some of the other comments here, I have to say Gem and Kynan's story was super obnoxious me. I would have preferred not to have that storyline all together, but I thought wraith's personal story arc was good.

I started getting a little irritated with inconsistencies in the story. So, charms can be stolen through sex, but then once someone steels them they can't be stolen anymore? Also, the degree to which the nature of sem demons changed from book to book was irritating. In shade's book he literally MUST fulfill the needs of any woman who strongly needs something, but then both eidolon and wraith could trapes about smelling various people's arousals but not having to do anything about it?

Also, I thought the bad guys in books 2 and 3 were two one-dimensionally bad. The Aegis wasn't given too much dimension in the first book but then both Roag and Bysamoth were basically just pure evil. It started getting old after a while.

Final gripe, having wriath's life force be tied to the hospital and then whoops! Also to the other brothers was irritating.

All that said, some of the sexy times with wraith were some of the sexiest I've read.

[Ariel]

I read all five books. They were such fun quick reads I couldn't stop myself, but really there are a lot of inconsistencies. I just kept in mind that I had willing suspension of disbelief on my side, and they're DEMONS! We, as readers, have no clue what defines and distinguishes the demons so its easier to let that sort of thing slide...

[Jessica]

That's kinda where I was. These aren't supposed to be ground breaking literature. Yea there were some things that were off or didn't work with other statements, but really...it was fun. I got more than I wanted or expected out of this series. And Wraith is just yummy.

Also I would totally buy one of the pendants that the brothers wear with UG's symbol. :p

[Serendi]

The brothers each had an imperative that came from his mother's race and was reflected in a difference in tattoos. So Eidolon, whose mother was a justice demon, cared about that and had a tattoo of, I think, scales. But Shade didn't care about justice. Can't remember offhand why he cared about helping women purge themselves of their angst by means of BDSM (been reading other stuff), but I *think* it related to his mother's race. The notion of BDSM as therapy has turned up in several novels I've read; I'll pass, thanks.

[Cara]

As I recall, his mother was a kind of demon with strong familial attachments and both genders had a need to care for others. As I understood it, BDSM was only a way to give some people what they needed*, not something he practiced with every partner. He straight out told Runa that he disliked it, which suggests it wasn't for his gratification.
*I say "what they needed" because the book told me he had the ability to divine that. Not that he decided what they needed, but that he could actually "read" it from them.

[Tegan]

@Anna - the inconsistency about how the Sem demons could get off annoyed the piss out of me as well. In one book all it requires is a woman's touch, the other all Sem demons must be inside a lady, etc... *grumble* also was a bit annoyed by how it was stated that "all" Sem demons responded to sexual need/attraction one way, then it switches.

@Serendi - read it as slightly different... that he was compelled to to act out his partner's fantasy, and tended to look for sex among a subset that had many masochists. i could be wrong, but that is what i read it as. largely seemed like something that was established as a character trait (that he had kinky sex) early on, then was twisted to make a more interesting character foil (he must beat women who want it) but didn't really work out in the story at all.