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kathydavie's review against another edition
5.0
First in the Demonica paranormal-romance series centered on a demon-run hospital under New York City.
The Story
A Seminus demon and a doctor with a degree from Harvard, Eidolon started up the Underground General Hospital creating a place where demons can safely come and get patched up. No questions. No judgments. That is until he meets Tayla. A Guardian with Aegis whose sole mandate is to kill demons. Eidolon's mission statement comes under the gun when everyone associated with UGH wants to kill Tayla. And that's before Tayla discovers that her own people want her dead too.
Poor Eidolon. He's torn between knowing he and his fellow demons are better off with an Aegis Guardian dead...and Tayla certainly doesn't hesitate to take him on. But he's about to go through his s'genesis when he meets Tayla and the emotional turmoil from that has Eidolon twisting in the wind.
My Take
I like this! Ione certainly provides a whole new look at demons with her characters, their motivations, and their interactions. With no apologies, Ione plunges us into a world of demons exposing us to their particular quirks with a very demonic outlook. It's weird to read of demons casually accepting so much of the behavior that occurs within Pleasure Unbound and yet it gets weirder still when we encounter the demon-doctor Eidolon and his moral certainties. As odd as it is, there is a very real feel to it as it promotes our own idea of how demons would behave while giving it a nicely moral and familial twist.
I do like Ione's insisting upon the Hippocratic oath applying to demons no matter what they did/do on the outside. It provides a nice parallel with the "real" world.
I'm anxious to read more about this demon hospital, how it runs, and how its patients and employees interact out in the "real world".
The Cover
The cover has, I'm assuming, a black-clad Tayla leaning back for a kiss with Eidolon with a blue metallic cast to the whole cover.
I'm not quite sure what the title, Pleasure Unbound, refers to as almost all of the pleasure is not very happy.
The Story
A Seminus demon and a doctor with a degree from Harvard, Eidolon started up the Underground General Hospital creating a place where demons can safely come and get patched up. No questions. No judgments. That is until he meets Tayla. A Guardian with Aegis whose sole mandate is to kill demons. Eidolon's mission statement comes under the gun when everyone associated with UGH wants to kill Tayla. And that's before Tayla discovers that her own people want her dead too.
Poor Eidolon. He's torn between knowing he and his fellow demons are better off with an Aegis Guardian dead...and Tayla certainly doesn't hesitate to take him on. But he's about to go through his s'genesis when he meets Tayla and the emotional turmoil from that has Eidolon twisting in the wind.
My Take
I like this! Ione certainly provides a whole new look at demons with her characters, their motivations, and their interactions. With no apologies, Ione plunges us into a world of demons exposing us to their particular quirks with a very demonic outlook. It's weird to read of demons casually accepting so much of the behavior that occurs within Pleasure Unbound and yet it gets weirder still when we encounter the demon-doctor Eidolon and his moral certainties. As odd as it is, there is a very real feel to it as it promotes our own idea of how demons would behave while giving it a nicely moral and familial twist.
I do like Ione's insisting upon the Hippocratic oath applying to demons no matter what they did/do on the outside. It provides a nice parallel with the "real" world.
I'm anxious to read more about this demon hospital, how it runs, and how its patients and employees interact out in the "real world".
The Cover
The cover has, I'm assuming, a black-clad Tayla leaning back for a kiss with Eidolon with a blue metallic cast to the whole cover.
I'm not quite sure what the title, Pleasure Unbound, refers to as almost all of the pleasure is not very happy.
whimsicalmeerkat's review against another edition
4.0
/fans self
Jeaniene Frost has pink bodily fluids, Larissa Ione has aphrodisiac semen.
Jeaniene Frost has pink bodily fluids, Larissa Ione has aphrodisiac semen.
yodamom's review against another edition
2.0
I just did not relate to the characters. Eidolon is a dream demon, a Dr. too. But, sex inright off the bat, a DR. doing his "druged" patient ? I love to have some romance, but sex with hardly any story to it? At least have some story built up before. Not what I enjoy in a PNR series. I can't believe in the destined for each other slam down sex happening with out a build up. I found this book to be a disappointment. It passed the time with no real flair. I will not continue the series.
maddydactyl's review against another edition
4.0
Pleasure Unbound introduces us to the world of Demonica - Eidolon our MMC is a doctor working in a hospital run by he, his brothers and their rag tag group of demon friends. Eidolon and his brothers are essentially sexy Incubi. Eidolon is the eldest , and approaching Demon Puberty: Stage Two - where he must take a wife, or he will be overcome by his maddening lust and become a sex crazed r@pe monster.
Eidolon's brothers are cool, and fucking frustrating - the both of them - but I can see the potential for growth, which is where it reminded me the most of BDB. The other characters we met were diverse - from slutty demon nurses, to complicated self-loathing paramedics, to psychotic demons and zealous demon hunters.
Through some demon shenanigans and unfortunate circumstances, he ends up entangled with our Demon Hunter FMC Tayla. Tayla's got some hefty trauma which makes her bristly and aggressive as fuck where demons are concerned - but she ends up falling head over for Eidolon.
Look it sounds fucking unhinged, but I swear this shit was actually wholesome as fuck. It reminded me of Black Dagger Brotherhood Series and I really enjoyed it a lot.
When you should or shouldn't read this book:
✔️ If you came here to start a long term series to obsess over
✔️ If you came here wanting to read urban fantasy paranormal romance
✔️ If you came here because you are recovering from reading Black Dagger Brotherhood
✔️ If you love expanded universes with multiple overlapping stories
✔️ If you're sort of hot for Doctors
✔️ If you love the idea of the love interest physically NEEDING the woman they love
✔️ If you like drama, smut and a good dose of funny all mixed together
❌ If you came here for a standard romance
❌ If you don't enjoy smut
❌ If you think female characters should be quiet and obediant
Final Ratings (Out of 5⭐ or 5): 3.6⭐ (Rounded to 4⭐)
FMC: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
MMC's:
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(surviving)Eidolon's brothers are cool, and fucking frustrating - the both of them - but I can see the potential for growth, which is where it reminded me the most of BDB. The other characters we met were diverse - from slutty demon nurses, to complicated self-loathing paramedics, to psychotic demons and zealous demon hunters.
Through some demon shenanigans and unfortunate circumstances, he ends up entangled with our Demon Hunter FMC Tayla. Tayla's got some hefty trauma which makes her bristly and aggressive as fuck where demons are concerned
Spoiler
which makes it a whole ass thing when it turns out she is half-demonLook it sounds fucking unhinged, but I swear this shit was actually wholesome as fuck. It reminded me of Black Dagger Brotherhood Series and I really enjoyed it a lot.
When you should or shouldn't read this book:
✔️ If you came here to start a long term series to obsess over
✔️ If you came here wanting to read urban fantasy paranormal romance
✔️ If you came here because you are recovering from reading Black Dagger Brotherhood
✔️ If you love expanded universes with multiple overlapping stories
✔️ If you're sort of hot for Doctors
✔️ If you love the idea of the love interest physically NEEDING the woman they love
✔️ If you like drama, smut and a good dose of funny all mixed together
❌ If you came here for a standard romance
❌ If you don't enjoy smut
❌ If you think female characters should be quiet and obediant
Final Ratings (Out of 5⭐ or 5): 3.6⭐ (Rounded to 4⭐)
FMC: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
MMC's:
alejandra_guerrero's review against another edition
3.75
I liked it. I wasn’t quite convinced, because, c’mon, the blurb makes it seem cheesy AF. But I think it was good. Tayla’s bigoted attitude toward demons was tiresome, though, and got annoying after a while, especially when she was proven, over and over, that her beliefs were incorrect. But I didn’t find her as irritating as some other characters I’ve read before.
The world is fascinating, though there are a couple of things I didn’t quite get. I guess they will be addressed in later books. The brothers are interesting, but Gem, Kynan (how the hell do you pronounce that?), and the slayers (Sorry, Guardians) in general, aren’t. I’m curious about Shade’s curse, and what the hell do you mean Wraith’s eyes are not his? I need to know. So I’ll keep reading.
Something I didn’t enjoy was the Miriad POVs present here, some of which have events that are tangential to the story at best. And, I don’t know if it was something about the version I got, but they didn’t have any separation, like we were in one character’s POV and the next paragraph was another’s, without a single space between the two to signal a change. Overall, I enjoyed it, though.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Death, Sexual violence, Medical content, Violence, Infidelity, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction
Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, and Chronic illness
Minor: Child abuse
smuttybooklvr90's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
avid_reader_96's review against another edition
5.0
I should have known after reading Azagoth that I was going to fall in love with this series. And I did. I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. I read it in less than 2 days. It was amazing and very well written. I can't wait to start the next book in this series. At first I was comparing this series to the Lords of the Underworld and while they're similar and both good series, this series is clearly not a copycat and I like how unique it is. I'm hooked. I can't wait to start Shade's story.
shawniebooks's review against another edition
3.0
This is a really interesting start to a new world for me.