Review: Bond of Passion by Larissa Ione

I am so excited to share my review of BOND OF PASSION with you today!

Larissa Ione and Blue Box Press have reissued the Demonica Underworld books (previously published under 1001 Dark Nights) with new covers, bonus material, and updated content previously left on the cutting room floor.

The Demonica Underworld series is a spinoff of the Demonica and Lords of Deliverance series. 

Every book in the Demonica Universe is an exciting, dangerous, sensually provocative and highly seductive grotesquerie with exceptionally clever dialogue and thrilling storylines.

This series is not for the faint of heart, but it is for those who like their romance spicy and supernatural. 

This is a world where demons, werewolves, vampires, and angels exist. Where Heaven and Hell are real places. Where not all demons are bad and not all angels are good. And where there is a demon-run hospital that takes care of all types of demons, angels, and otherworldly beings. 

Oh, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are also real.

Are you excited yet?

BOND OF PASSION
Demonica Book

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About the Book

He was an assassin. She was his lover.

And his victim.

Now, years later, she’s back from the dead and looking for vengeance.

Thanks to an unexpected and fortuitous disaster, Tavin’s contract with the underworld’s Assassin Guild was broken decades early. But instead of freedom, he’s suffocated by guilt and regret. In many ways, he’s more trapped than he was before. In an attempt to numb his pain, he works at Underworld General Hospital, saving people instead of killing them. But nothing can diminish the memory of assassinating the female he loved…not even the knowledge that he’d done it to spare her an even worse fate.

Deja remembers all of her dozens of former lives, and she knows that she only found love in one of them…until her lover murdered her. As a soul locked inside the nightmarish boundaries of demon hell, she stewed in hatred until a single, fateful event gave her one more shot at life.

And at revenge.

Now another specter from the past is threatening them both. Can two damaged people overcome their history to save not only themselves, but a second chance at love?

My Review

I am a sucker for second chance romances but this one was totally bizarre, but actually right in line with the Demonica Underworld feels. 

Tavin is a seminus demon and an assassin. He is charged with killing an unusually empathetic Neethul demon–a violent, nasty breed of demon. But then he falls in love with her and she with him. Tavin does everything he can to prolong this contract being fulfilled. He tries to hide her, make her disappear. He kills another assassin who’s tasked with doing the job he won’t. Tavin is tortured for not completing the contract on time. And waits until finally he has no choice but to kill his love. Oooo I am mad at him! Tavin’s got A LOT of explaining to do!

With the events that happen in REAPER, Sheoul-gra is destroyed by Azagoth and demon souls are released back into the world and put back into the bodies they died in. Thankfully Deja was one of the lucky ones… and she’s ready for vengeance. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And she is VERY scorned.

What a crazy and wild ride this story is! Deja is a complex character with a pocket full of revenge, but I’m not sure she’ll be able to take it when the time is right. She just doesn’t have the killer spirit and I really love that about her. I love her complexities and the feelings she struggles with. Deja is a dynamic character with a lot of heart.

Tavin has been in the series for a while now and has got the shaft a lot. He made a bunch of mistakes when he was younger and ended up beholden to the Assassin's Guild in Sheoul (Hell realm). I loved watching Tavin grow and mature and my heart squeezed as I watched him work as a paramedic for Underworld General (demon hospital) serving his penance. I didn’t want to like this guy but he somehow won me over.

What I really loved about the story was seeing all the guys from the first books in the Demonica Series. Seminus demon brothers Eidolon, Shade, and Wraith along with half-siblings Lore and Sin and a whole bunch of other familiar faces! 

BOND OF PASSION is a freaky second chance romance set against a vibrant hellscape with incredible world building and fascinating characters who tantalize and titillate! 

If you love sci-fi fantasy reads with dynamic world building, vibrant landscapes, irreverent humor, engaging plot twists, plenty of debauchery, and fascinating characters with fully fleshed out storylines, then the Demonica series is exactly what you need.

FTC Disclaimer: I voluntarily read a copy of the book generously provided by Blue Box Press in exchange for an honest review. This in no way influences my thoughts or feelings about the book or the content of my review.

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About the Author

Air Force veteran Larissa Ione traded in a career in meteorology to pursue her passion of writing. She has since published dozens of books, won numerous awards, and hit several bestseller lists, including the New York Times and USA Today. When she isn’t writing, she’s traveling overseas or in her RV, playing on her VR headset, or watching Big Bang Theory reruns. She believes in celebrating everything and would never be caught without a bottle of Champagne chilling in the fridge…just in case. She currently lives in Wisconsin with her retired U.S. Coast Guard husband, her son, and her very own rescued hellhounds, a Belgian Malinois named Duvel, and a Belgian Tervuren named Draak. Learn more at larissaione.com

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