cover image Demons Like It Hot

Demons Like It Hot

Sidney Ayers. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $6.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-4022-5177-1

Heaps of flirtatious scenes and supernatural havoc never quite kick-start the low-tension second Demons Unleashed paranormal romance (after June 2011’s Demons Prefer Blondes). Serah SanGermano is a caterer who happens to be a pure-blood, destined to save the world. She has a cat who is really an imp and friends who are a goddess and succubus. When the Fore-Demons assign her a bodyguard, paladin Matthias Ambrose, he quickly turns up the heat. Matthias and Serah share a past, and the present is steaming with chemistry. With humor and wry wit, Ayers offers small servings of romance, demon-slaying excitement, and mythology, but the characters spend far more time preparing for perils and pleasures than engaging in them. Readers will be left wanting less anticipation, more danger, less flirtation, and more sex. Agent: The Knight Agency. (Dec.)