Demon At My Door by Michelle A. Valentine starts off with us
meeting Natalie. Natalie is about to turn twenty-one, and on her twenty-first
birthday she will either die or become a soul-collecting demon. When Natalie
was five years old a little demon boy, also about five year old, came to her
while her mother was in the middle of chocking on a hotdog and offered to save
her mother’s life in return for her soul.
“You belong to me now, and I’ll be back to get you after
your twenty-first birthday, when the time is right. No one else can touch you
until then and I’ll be around to make sure.”
Determined not to give up her soul or die she has spent many
years chasing after the little demon boy that has tormented her since she was a
little girl. Everyone in town knows about her crazy demon killing antics and
she has been out casted as the town freak.
Now, days away from either dying or being a demon, she has
not one, but two guys pursuing her. One is the hot new bad boy that doesn’t
care what anyone thinks about him. The other is her neighbor that she had a
summer fling with that wants to continue their relationship, but keep it a
secret from everyone.
“My dad won’t let me see you. You know that. If word got
around campus that we’re together, it’s only a matter of time before he finds
out.”
Michelle A Valentine wrote Demon At My Door so that it had
me going back and forth as to which boy I wanted Natalie to end up with. When
you read the book, it’s really not hard to figure out who she will eventually
end up with, but honestly, my heart got pulled a little bit by both of these
guys. Now that’s not to say I didn’t want to slap both of them around a little
bit at times to for how they were treating poor Natalie.
As I read Natalie’s story surrounding her twenty-first
birthday, my heart broke a little bit for how everyone had treated her up to
that point and she just accepted it. You rarely saw her fight back or even
defend herself, and I always find that side of a character insanely
frustrating. The only people she stands up to are the two guys that are chasing
after her. She even lets her parents treat her badly to some degree.
“Look, I’m not into worshipping the Devil or anything.
Dressing in black has nothing to do with liking evil. It’s a personal choice,
and believe me, befriending demons is the last thing on my mind.”
I really enjoyed the adventure Michelle took me on with
Natalie in her desperation to stay alive and keep her soul. I think this might
be one of the first paranormal demon books I just wasn’t able to put down. I
had to know if Natalie was going to be able to keep herself safe from the demon
that wants her soul, which you find out later in the book, his reason for
wanting her soul are completely different than you would think.
“You don’t have a choice in the matter. Your soul is you,
and I own it. You’ll do whatever I say. This is how it is going to be.”
Michelle A. Valentine leaves the ending with you needing a
sequel. I hope she puts me (and probably everyone else) out of my misery with
continuing to tell us Natalie, Rick and Stew’s stories. So be warned – you will
get attached to these characters and want more!
Michelle A. Valentine is a Central Ohio nurse turned author
of erotic romance, with forthcoming novels ROCK THE HEART (2012) and ROCK MY
BED (2013). Her love of hard-rock music, tattoos, and sexy musicians inspired
her erotic BLACK FALCON series.
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