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Sweet Vengeance
by Viano Oniomoh
This was...so unexpected.
I went into this eager for a good, smutty, demon romance novella. Something short, sweet, and sultry. Sweet Vengeance checked those boxes, for sure. But it also checked a few more.
The story of Joy and Malachi was moving, insightful, and so, so beautiful. The two character's back stories were complex and dark, painful and residual. The two meet when Joy summons Malachi to help her enact revenge on her rapist-what follows is a journey to get revenge, yes, but also Joy's journey back to herself. She reclaims her life, her sensuality, and her vulnerability. Malachi is shown sweetness, tenderness, and friendship for the first time, and he burns for Joy. Sweet, vengeful, delicious Joy. The two's chemistry was electric. The intimate scenes were spicy as hell. The writing was unique, prose-like at times, and attention-catching. Their journeys, dynamic and winding-but always ending with each other.
I'm not ashamed to say I was in tears at the end. Top-tier erotic fantasy romance, right here, folks. I highly recommend.
"Malachi knew what it was to be hungry; he'd been hungry practically all his life. What was it about her that had his perpetual hunger going from easily ignored to downright unbearable? Almighty, he wanted to feast on her, in every way imaginable."
"Sweet, murderous Joy," Malachi husked, his wings flaring, wanting to wrap around them both, like he could shelter them from the world. "You are exquisite."
"Ready, demon boy?"
"Whenever you are, little tiger."
"At that moment, Malachi knew it like he knew his True Name. There would never be another. Joy was it. Could he let her go now? When there was so much to discover between them?"
I went into this eager for a good, smutty, demon romance novella. Something short, sweet, and sultry. Sweet Vengeance checked those boxes, for sure. But it also checked a few more.
The story of Joy and Malachi was moving, insightful, and so, so beautiful. The two character's back stories were complex and dark, painful and residual. The two meet when Joy summons Malachi to help her enact revenge on her rapist-what follows is a journey to get revenge, yes, but also Joy's journey back to herself. She reclaims her life, her sensuality, and her vulnerability. Malachi is shown sweetness, tenderness, and friendship for the first time, and he burns for Joy. Sweet, vengeful, delicious Joy. The two's chemistry was electric. The intimate scenes were spicy as hell. The writing was unique, prose-like at times, and attention-catching. Their journeys, dynamic and winding-but always ending with each other.
I'm not ashamed to say I was in tears at the end. Top-tier erotic fantasy romance, right here, folks. I highly recommend.
"Malachi knew what it was to be hungry; he'd been hungry practically all his life. What was it about her that had his perpetual hunger going from easily ignored to downright unbearable? Almighty, he wanted to feast on her, in every way imaginable."
"Sweet, murderous Joy," Malachi husked, his wings flaring, wanting to wrap around them both, like he could shelter them from the world. "You are exquisite."
"Ready, demon boy?"
"Whenever you are, little tiger."
"At that moment, Malachi knew it like he knew his True Name. There would never be another. Joy was it. Could he let her go now? When there was so much to discover between them?"