Book Review: Demons Prefer Blondes by Sidney Ayers
Demons Prefer Blondes by Sidney Ayers. © 2011 Sourcebooks Casablanca. ISBN 9781402251740. Mass Market Paperback. Paranormal Romance. 391 pages. Source: ARC provided by the publishers.
Synopsis: When beautiful half-succubus Lucy Gregory’s antique chest unleashes a Pandora’s box of demonic activity in a suburban beauty salon, brooding demon Rafe arrives to run damage control.
Review: An ancient chest opens, unleashing the Inferati and summoning an attractive Paladin demon named Rafael, but this didn’t happen just anywhere. It happened in the middle of Lucy Gregory’s beauty shop. Lucy Gregory, the sassy succubus that is. As this novel is centered around a beauty salon, you can bet it includes tons of girly fun, romance, humor and more.
Don’t be turned off by this being a light romantic and sexy romp though, Ayers has some superb world-building skills and her characters are fantastic–her heroine Lucy Gregory being very approachable and easy to like. To counterbalance Lucy’s insouciance and dynamic, Ayers has created all things serious in Rafael–and in turn a classic account of opposites attract.
In Demons Prefer Blondes we are given a complex, multi-dimensional story that somehow amazingly maintains an air of light-heartedness. Demons Prefer Blondes is what happens when a romantic comedy collides with the paranormal, and I rather like it. It has that Whedonesque quality to it: a bit of cheese and humor but still containing strong characterization, is well-written and highly entertaining. Demons Like It Hot, the next in the Demons Unleashed series, is due out in December.
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