Elven Blood by Debra Dunbar

Elven Blood by Debra Dunbar

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The story of ‘Sam the Imp’ continues . . ..

I started the review for the previous book in the series noting stuff about Demons and family and stuff. And how the book found Sam helping her brother Dar. Well this time we meet sister . . . um, Lethesru . . okay, I can’t recall how her name is spelled but it started with an L. L is a succubus and she’s currently also needing Sam’s help. And/or refuge. Sam allows her sister to stay in her house.

Wise decision or not, but that puts an interesting complication into Sam’s life. Specifically the part where L is a succubus. The kind who naturally, though there is also control involved, inject arousal pheromones everywhere around them. The kind that causes Wyatt to lose his ability to think coherently and wish to hump L, Sam, both, or maybe just the sofa. The kind that has Sam herself desiring to hump L (and before ‘eww, incest’, one of the things I hadn’t mentioned before now is that these demons children in group homes aren’t actually necessarily related to each other). See, I’d noted in the previous or the review before that one that this series isn’t a heterosexual series.

Right, so. Recall how there was this powerful demon who wanted an object, Dar was helping him, Sam was helping Dar, and the powerful demon liked ‘punishing’ those who annoy him? Well, Sam now has a steady stream of demons arriving trying to assassinate her. So, constantly horny with succubus in the house, demons constantly attacking, and lover boy can’t keep it in his pants when in Sam’s house (see, again, succubus).

And so Sam decides to do something about this issue. One of the Elf kings (more of the Orlando Bloom type elf than Keebler elf) has offered a deal to Sam – do him a solid, and he’ll take care of Sam’s demon problems. That ‘solid’? Find either: a) a living demon/elf hybrid (the mere thought of an elf with a parent who isn’t an elf is deeply disturbing to elves) – well, dead or alive, just get the 19/20 year old; b) find the dead baby that had been left on earth. Complicated? Well, I worded it that way. Unwrapping it – one of the joys of demon kind is to try to get an elf to mate with them. Well, appears it has actually happened. An Incubus has mated with an elf, the elf became pregnant. That same elf said that she’d then immediately killed the baby upon delivery (birth), and then sent the baby off to do one of those elf swaps (swapping dead elf baby with life human baby). That’s the story she’s told. She’s sticking to it. But rumors have come out that she’s lying. And the king believes those who say she is lying – or, at the very least, can’t keep it at the rumor level. Needs prove one way or another, then ‘solving’ the problem (killing the living elf/demon; finding dead elf baby). And Sam’s on the case. While dodging demons trying to kill her, interacting with that Gregory angel, interacting with Wyatt, living with a succubus in her house, she’s going to track down this baby and/or living hybrid.

1) Quite fun book;
2) Its good Sam is a demon because, if she were human? There’s no way I’d be able to keep reading this series. Gregory is a really abusive asshole. The kind who thinks the thing to do to stop Sam from talking, is to choke her out. Oh, and he’s verbally abusive (various people have various names for Sam, Gregory’s name for Sam is ‘cockroach’). Complicated situation, though. Wyatt is actually Sam’s boyfriend, not Gregory. And Sam just loves pushing Gregory’s buttons, pushing him into reacting and doing the things he does (she’s a demon, to her pain is pleasure (and pleasure is pleasure)).

Right, where was I? hmmm. Well, that’s probably all I have to say. Another good book in the series.

Rating: 4.43

July 10 2017



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