Reviewed by True
TITLE: The Devil’s Boyfriend
SERIES: Hellbound #2
AUTHOR: Alexa Piper
PUBLISHER: Changeling Press
LENGTH: 171 pages
RELEASE DATE: February 11, 2022
BLURB:
Lionel, necromancer and police consultant, finds himself closer to the Devil than he ever wanted to be. But even for a necromancer, life goes on, and murder happens. The next crime scene is just around the corner, and Lionel will do his job… ideally without Lucifer looking over his shoulder.
After a traumatic experience, Lucifer knows he has to protect his necromancer, mostly from the other man’s own stubbornness and ignorance. Lionel is not quite as human as he likes to think, and to Lucifer’s great annoyance, Lionel hasn’t given up on his bad habit of running into situations without thinking.
Lionel doesn’t know how he feels about the Devil, and he doesn’t know what he wants in his life. Lucifer knows what Lionel needs, but getting the necromancer to accept that is the difficult part. And of course, there is murder happening in town, and it is not the boring human-on-human kind of violence. This time around, it looks like immortals are involved. Solving the case will require Lionel to accept who he really is while Lucifer wants his boyfriend to embrace who he truly can be. Lives may depend on it.
REVIEW:
To give you a little introduction… In Lionel’s opinion Lucifer talks with the effect of verbal Viagra, I choked on it, imagine this, so funny.
Lucifer, the Devil himself, insists his necromancer Lionel calls him his Boyfriend, and everyone has to know it! It’s something Lionel can’t get out of his mouth willingly. He knows one day Lucifer will be bored with him, that’s where Lionel will be left alone. To save him from this heartache he’s trying desperately to keep Lucy away from getting too close. He will be strong, he has to, he’s just a toy to the Devil. Little does this little human know.
You have to understand Lionel was abandoned when he was a child, no one ever loved him.
Lionel is challenging Lucifer where possible, even he isn’t always aware of it.
“Maybe I should drop him in the lake, see if the icy water restored him to factory settings.“
Between all the banter and possessiveness, there’s also a case to solve, corpses are found and they can’t be reanimated by Nelly.
Who is behind this? Where Lucifer has a sharp view, Nelly is oblivious about the core of it all.
Everyone who approached his Nelly, human or whoever, Lucifer is in attack mode. It was so adorable.
Lucy is manipulative af, ‘no’ isn’t in his vocabulary, he gets what he wants, poor Nelly never stands a chance.
The author has an amazing captivating, humorous writing style, I love it very much. It’s smooth, fun, strong.
There are a few repetitive things, but who cares when everything else is awesome!
There is a tiny bit of angst, good to handle, it’s more about the big picture without getting too deep into details. Everything about Lucifer and Lionel was detailed, thank you very much.
It was an awesome story, scorching moments, everything was very enjoyable!
Lucifer is my favorite, Lionel’s second-best, Soul ahhh, there are more extraordinary secondary characters.
It’s not over yet, at the end we meet someone and it’s not clear what will happen next.
Very excited for the continuation!
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