The Devil’s Beloved: An erotic mm fantasy romance
About
Opposites Attract, Even in Hell
Welcome to Divine Temptations, a series centered around the tantalizing gay fantasy blog of Badinel, a hot but easily distracted goblin king. In this first installment, Satan falls for a dashing, happy-go-lucky angel of wrath named Tzyeriel. Before long, the pair begin a steamy forbidden romance.
Meanwhile, Satan’s vengeful ex, the cunning fallen angel Abaddon, plots to claim Hell’s crown by using the scandalous relationship to his advantage.
Prepare for a tale of passionate encounters, intrigue, and a love both infernal and eternal!
The Devil's Beloved is ideal for fans of spicy MM romance, gay paranormal love stories, and queer supernatural romance.
READER CAUTION ADVISED:
This book is intended for an 18+ audience only. It contains material that may be offensive to some and is made for mature audiences.
Praise for this book
This book was surprisingly delightful! The storytelling is unusual and takes some getting used to. But once I got into it, it felt fun and unique.
The story is told in the format of a blog being written by an exiled goblin king living in a studio apartment in the human world. His blog is primarily the angel erotica he's writing, interspersed with his quest to find the ingredients to make his mother's cookie recipe and other challenges of the mortal world. Sound ridiculous? Absolutely... but the goblin king scenes are hilarious, and a nice comic relief for the heaviness of the angel story.
The angel story starts out relatively tame, but gets steamier as it proceeds - at most it's maybe 3-3.5/5 on the spicy scale. The angel of wrath Tzyeriel travels to hell to punish a fallen angel. While there, he and Satan are drawn to each other. The two are forbidden lovers, as the laws of heaven forbid physical relationships, but they want each other enough to take the risk. Their story is tragic and happy and touching. I would love to see more of their character development in a longer story.
This book starts out a bit shaky, but by the end I was hooked. The world-building (what little is possible in 164 pages) is a bit odd... Satan is the king of hell, Lucifer is a different person from Satan - a fallen angel that led a rebellion in heaven, and then the briefly-mentioned Beelzebub is the "Lord of Rot." The angel Abaddon is next in line for the throne to hell. And they're all angels/archangels (I think?). Also hell has a river that must be crossed in Charon's boat. It's all a bit muddled and could probably use some better editing or direction.
Overall this was an entertaining read.