Synopsis:
Aren’t you tired of doing everything right?
Wouldn’t you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong?
Beth is fifty, dumped by her husband for the babysitter, jobless, skill-less, homeless, cashless. She’s about to jump in front of a bus when she meets Delilah, recruiter for the “Regional Office” and receives an offer she can’t refuse: become a succubus for the Second Circle of Hell. Heartbroken, Beth decides to use the powers of her new sex demon body and the remains of her thrown-away life to track down her ex-husband and find out why he dumped her.
But Beth can’t get any information without help from her team, and she can’t accept their help until she learns something about what she has become—a coed demon slut—about who she’s always really been, and who she wants to be from now on.
The first adventure in the Coed Demons Sluts series!
Review:
One of my friend’s reaction when she noticed my GoodReads mark on this book was: “What the fuck are you reading? 😂” And honestly, that’s probably anyone’s reaction when they’d get to see this book’s title. But really now… can somebody say that it doesn’t sound interesting?
This novel has almost every little detail that makes a great story: (mostly) great characters, mind blowing set-up, puzzling rules, humor, entertainment, few secrets, etc. Unfortunately, the one thing that’s pretty much missing is… the action. Nothing is happening! Or very little things do, but they develop in such a sloooow and boring rhythm that it’s almost guaranteed to throw you in a reading slump.
So Beth, this novel’s heroine is a fifty something ex-rich lady who just got dumped for a much younger chick and was left with nothing after the divorce. Her friends don’t want her, her kids refuse to help, she’s homeless, with no working skills as she was a stay at home wife, unemployed, completely broke and mad with revenge and self pity. Of course she’s going to say a big “yes” when a Hell recruiter comes with an offer to hire her as a sex demon. She already lost everything, so there’s nothing else to lose from now on.
The only thing is that her drunk self who accepted the proposal had no idea how much different her new life will be. And here’s where the story starts. Because despite all the perks that the new job offers, Beth is still incredibly attached to her old self. And her new team of demon friends who got stuck with her have no choice than to help her out of the whole mess.
Beth is the least likeable character of all. She’s miserable and not really willing to let go of her misery and embrace the totally different lifestyle that’s in front of her. I loved how the author emphasizes the human tendency to refuse something better just because they’re used to the bad, while still complaining about how bad things are. Most of the people will do this: complain and complain but always find excuses for not changing a single thing. It drives me crazy. Beth surely did. I hated her and I was sick and tired of her and with every new and wrong step she’d take, I just wanted to enter the book and slap her. I’m truly surprised that none of her new team members didn’t lose their patience and do it, although they were so close for few times.
But other than Beth, all the characters were wonderful. Each of them comes with an intriguing background that I cannot wait to explore more in the future novels, each of them is complex, well built and the relations between them are realistic, without being idealized, with all the ups and downs that you can expect from a group of demons.
But despite loving the interactions between the characters and the funny and original world that the author created, I was sooo bored of how little action there was. I get it, the story rolls mostly around Beth and her deep transformation from who she was into this new being. You cannot expect her to change completely from a day to another. But… nothing else is happening. There’s no plot twist, there’s no mystery, not a single page that would leave you breathless and eager to start the next chapter. You can put the book down at anytime and completely forget about it for weeks in a row. Don’t get me wrong, it was not a bad reading. Just… boring.
However, I’m still very curious to continue the series. Each new novel will be centered around another one of the heroines that we already met in this book. And considering that literally each one of them seemed so much more interesting than Beth, I won’t miss the chance of discovering their own stories.
