
Happy Endings
Demon Magic, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Greg Boudreaux
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By:
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Alice Winters
About this listen
Smart men never dabble with demons. I never claimed to be smart, but at least, I’m powerful enough to control them. When I bound Havoc to me nearly 300 years ago, I never realized how difficult he’d make my life, although “accidentally” lighting him on fire every now and then does bring a smile to my face.
Havoc is handsome, mysterious, and somehow, my closest companion, even if we don’t always get along. He’s more interested in bedding attractive women than protecting my life, which defeats the main reason a mage like me would have a demon. I even had to fight off swordsmen alone once because he was too busy betting on who’d survive.
When 15 people are found dead with messages from a long-extinct cult, Havoc and I are forced to face our past and sort through our differences. We start to realize that there’s something more to this relationship, something that has kept us by each other’s sides for so long. Maybe, it took 300 years to finally understand my feelings for Havoc and realize that I can’t imagine being with anyone but him.
Havoc and I will do everything we can to stop the evil that is threatening the lives of the people I care about. Or destroy everything - we haven’t quite figured that out yet.
Happy Endings is a 73K word novel that has an immensely powerful mage, a shapeshifting demon with a strong libido, a dark mage that just won’t stay dead, a spray bottle put to unusual uses, armor that is most definitely not made of dragon skin, blackmail involving an unfortunate slow-mo video, a detective being pursued by a determined minotaur, unprofessional use of illusions, and an epic walk into battle.
Revised and edited.
©2017 Alice Winters (P)2020 Alice WintersFunny with heart
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so much character
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10/10, would recommend
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Unfortunately, while the writing makes the main characters entertaining, there is some really toxic behaviours that get dressed up as “fun”. I get it, it’s a demon, they don’t have human morals. But the story really seems to reward the bad behaviour and focus on the hilarity of it.
It became saddening how a beautifully hearted character is in an abusive relationship. What is supposed to be “banter” quickly starts being revealed as outright psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism.
Spoiler and trigger warning (r*pe): And then of course there’s the flip side where the loveable hero engages in a hot sex scene, which is essentially rape.
First, it glorifies using guilt to pressure someone into sex as a way of getting back at them for wrongs they did. And then, when someone’s basically saying “no I don’t like that, yes you should stop” you don’t say “but your body is clearly saying yes” and keep going.
Really frustrating and I need to do more research on the rest of the books before I decide to give them a go.
Good book except the glamorised toxic main relationship *tw*
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the story is an excellent intro to the series, very captivating and can’t wait to start the next book!
Witty, charming and a little scary
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great fun
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Off to a great start
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I read and listened to this one by the magic that is Kindle Whispersync. The narrator Greg Boudreux is an absolute genius! Every character had a unique voice so you always knew who was speaking, and his comedic timing was on point every single time! I loved how in a frustrating conversation with Havoc he could simultaneously make Miles sound like the extremely powerful mage that he is, but also a bit of a whiner! Now that is talent!
I think Alice Winters is one of those authors were you either enjoy her humour, or you don't. Me, I LOVE it. I love the banter between the straitlaced (or in Havoc's case, just more dead pan humoured) guy and the snarky quirky individual who loves bringing straight guy out of his shell.
This combination worked. Havoc is aptly named, it's easy to see why other mages have had to brutally control him as under them he would have indeed caused havoc! Apart from Miles being incredibly powerful, he also gives Havoc a level of freedom, and in turn Havoc (mostly) does what he is told. Although, he's also independent - hence the opening scene (no spoilers!!)
The whole cast of characters were hilarious, and now that Miles has formed his 'Scooby Gang' I can't wait to see what they get up to in the next book!
I absolutely adored everything about this one, if you enjoy campy, quirky, snarky, madcap, and sometimes OTT humour and action with a HUGE dosing of steam, then I'd highly recommend this one.
You can't beat this narration!!
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Funny, snarky
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Action, comedy, romance, death and a naked Minotaur! What more would you want!
So Good!
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