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Demon's Dream by Elle Kayson

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challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Yes

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I have so many thoughts about Demon's Dream.  First, let me say I liked the story.  First, we have Dream, who comes from an influential family, and when her brother fucks up, she takes it upon herself to fix his fuck up and, as a result, has to belong to Damien "Demon" Montana for a month.  

Dream and Demon's back-and-forth banter is funny when Demon is talking.  Sometimes, the conversation falls flat because of who Demon is supposed to be. Many characters were introduced very abruptly, which almost turned me off from reading this, but I pushed on, and I'm glad I did.  The spicy scenes were steamy, and you can tell the exact moment Demon fell in love with Dream. 

My biggest gripes are the banter falling flat,  the number of characters and how they got introduced, and how fast specific plot points come into place without it being set up in a way where it makes sense. 



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dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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: Yes

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dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to like this book more but, I could not STAND how the MMCs talked to the FMC. I like a dark romance but all that telling them to stfu was too much for me. 

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book got me out of a reading slump! 

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring tense 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: Yes

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dark emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-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: Yes

This book was an emotional roller coaster yet sits so close to my heart. As a person whose childhood was very similar to Damien’s, my heart strings were being burned, pulled, painted, and mended while reading this book. It was such an amazing read that it was so hard to put down. There was a scene that  triggered me a little bit but the grit and spunk and hope that the characters showed overshadowed that. The more I read that more I felt little parts of myself heal from the trauma I’ve experienced in my life. This was a very well-written and down to earth book and I cannot wait to read more!

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challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Baby.... I thought you heffas was lying AGAIN... a 700+ Page book/dictionary/ENCYCLOPEDIA? Ain't no way, my guy... I just KNEW you heffas was llyyyyiinngggg BUT BAAAAEEEBBBBYYYY. Yall told the truth and we will never be SHAMED THE DEMON... This was a wild, fun fantastic voyage and I enjoyed it all. This book is extremely far from my normal favorite black romance genres and SHAME ON ME for not being open to trying books like this... ESPECIALLY  IF THEY COMING WITH THIS. I have a few very slight complaints  or criticisms but NONE of them are even worth mentioning. Reading fiction books  are for entertainment, enjoyment and escapism and baby this was allofem...
I read fast but Freeeennnnnd I read the whole book in less than a day. I ate it right up... The story caught me RIGHT UP from the beginning. Push through the first 2 chapters and suspend your respectability politics and bourgeois BS and enjoy a great book with lovely vibrant characters, crazy love, suspense, trauma, drama, spice, surprises, healing, family, and LOVE.  I really loved it and I'm sooo glad you heffas were NOT lying about this 700 plus page a** dictionary/encyclopedia of a book...lol @SistaTV loves you and Damien, Dream, Smoke and Bestie, Kam and  everryyybody. 

PS. We need an audiobook with amazing voice actors and a movie slash television series  with doubly amazing actors directors cinematography etc... ASAPTUALLY. 

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