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However, there were deeper threads woven into the novel that gave it insight into relationships, family dynamics, power, competitiveness, honor, manipulations, prestige, friendship, romance, belittling, and bullying. But Ozroth has a limited amount of time to strike the deal, and if Mariel gives up her soul, she’ll lose all her emotions – including love – which will only spell disaster for them both. Mariel is kind, relatable, and funny, has loyal friends, is good at nature magic, and dreads being around her mother. What if this brooding, charismatic demon is more connected with human feelings and his last chance to stay at his position is luring that powerful witch and taking her soul to prove his value to his mentor!
She explored a sense of strength in sticking up for herself and what she loves alongside many other empathetic topics. Also, the writing felt juvenile sometimes because the author was trying so hard to incorporate pop culture/dad jokes. I wish I had liked it more, but when a book that unalives a chicken that way in the first few pages to be funny(?I think it was a tad long for my tastes just because the third-act breakup was a a dark cloud hanging over the rest.
There were just moments where Mariel was pretty rough on Oz, and it felt a bit like kicking a puppy. This is our first foray into the "witchy romcom" genre, and we think we made a very good choice with our intro, because this was hilarious, funny, and sexy.I felt so much sympathy for Mariel (h) that her family was powerful and therefore so much was expected from her, but she struggled hard with her magic. This did make some of the book a little hard for me because his journey of learning how to feel and Mariel’s journey of gaining confidence overlapped in some kinda harsh ways. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.
But his reputation has suffered ever since a bargain went awry – if he can strike a deal with Mariel, he will earn back his deadly reputation. She accidentally summoned the most vicious demon to her kitchen and she cannot send him till she accepts to give him her soul in exchange a favor! I also wish Mariel would’ve refrained from telling her friends that she was fake dating Oz because it kinda dampened the effect.
It was also poorly paced, boring, and chock full of irritating characters, middling writing, and cliché. I think this book would be perfect for contemporary rom-com readers who are interested in breaking into paranormal romance but don't know where to start. and he falls first and as soon, as he realizes, that he doesn't want her to lose her soul, he becomes one of the best book-bf ever. Because everytime he did any of them things the words 'toxic masculinity' where thrown all over the place and he was shouted at, shot down, emotionally manipulated. The fake dating, opposites attract, paranormal romance is just the book for a fun afternoon of reading.
He likes devouring spaghettis, attending to the protests for safe ecosystem, making jokes, spending time with her besties. Because of their circumstances, Mariel and Oz take time to warm up to each other, starting with friendship and then moving to romance. These two dumdums now have to figure out how to get him back to the demon plane while also coming up with a plausible reason why this hot dude with horns is following Marial around. When she accidentally summons a demon, the two are trapped together until they can figure out a way out of a bargain for her soul. When it came to some of the supporting characters (Mariel's mom, her best friend and her mom as well) the dialogue of those characters distracted me from the parts of the plot that I did enjoy.I would have loved to have seen more of his denial or anger towards having gained emotions/having to deal with a witch with no control of her powers, but instead he was fighting attraction straight away and cleaning up her house. The story is well written with a unique situation that resulted in a funny romance with spells going astray. I found it hard to put down, and as soon as I finished reading I wanted to go back to the start and enjoy it all over again. With a little foray into toxic families, capitalist city councils, and supportive friendships, the book is a delight.
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