{"id":5721,"date":"2013-12-22T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2021-08-11T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:47:20","slug":"review-of-the-demons-wife-by-rick-hautala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/review-of-the-demons-wife-by-rick-hautala\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of The Demon’s Wife, by Rick Hautala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/span><\/a>I won a paperback copy of Rick Hautala<\/span><\/a>‘s The Demon’s Wife <\/span><\/a>on LibraryThing<\/span><\/a>.com.<\/span><\/p>\n

Description from Goodreads:<\/strong><\/span>
\n Claire McMullen is just an ordinary woman — until you look at her long, beautiful bright-red hair. She has a job she hates, a roommate she tolerates, and she spends her weekend nights bar-hopping, looking for her \u201cMr. Right.\u201d One cold, rainy night she meets Samael — tall, dark, handsome and rich — and a romance blossoms. Claire thinks she may have found her soulmate — until Samael informs Claire that he\u2019s actually a demon.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Can Claire trust a demon\u2019s claims of true love\u2014or is he just plotting after her immortal soul? Can a demon even feel true love, and if so\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What are the consequences of such a love for both Hell and Heaven?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Review:<\/strong><\/span>
\n This was an alright read, but I never really clicked with it. I thought Samael came across as flat and, even though Claire was strong enough to stand by her man, she far too easily accepted the lack of information. I did wonder more than once, ‘why Claire?’ The sudden love was never explained. I also found the narrative repetitive and thought that the ending started to feel very much like a piece of Christian Fiction. There were just too many cautionary passages on the dangers of allowing evil into your life and the power go agape.<\/span><\/p>\n

I did think the idea of demonic redemption was an interesting one and Samael’s tail gave me all sorts of wicked thoughts. I also enjoyed Hautala’s writing style. So, while not one of my favourites, not a bad book either.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I won a paperback copy of Rick Hautala‘s The Demon’s Wife on LibraryThing.com. Description from Goodreads: Claire McMullen is just an ordinary woman — until you look at her long, beautiful bright-red hair. She has a job she hates, a roommate she tolerates, and she spends her weekend nights bar-hopping, looking for her \u201cMr. Right.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[15,231,35,37,1879,118,152],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booksbook-review","category-challenges","tag-indiefever","tag-book-review","tag-challenge-2013","tag-challenges-2","tag-rick-hautala","tag-romance","tag-won"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21364,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions\/21364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}