Title: Double Trouble
Author: R.J. Blain
Series: A Magical romantic Comedy (with a Body Count) #13
Rating Out of 5: 4.5 (Amazing, but not quite perfect)
My Bookshelves: Humour, Paranormal romance, Urban fantasy
Pace: Medium
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2019

When I read the blurb from this book, I had a bit of an idea of what I thought I should expect from this novel. And it turned out that the reality was nothing like what I anticipated. Which was fantastic, because I like being surprised, and this was way better than what was in my imagination. Which is probably why I keep just inhaling R.J. Blain’s Magical Romantic Comedy (with a Body count) series. They’re funny, brilliant and often nothing like what I expect.

Layla’s history was one of those mysteries that is slowly unravelled throughout the novel. I loved finding out bits and pieces of her history. The fact that this also led to some wonderful revenge when all of the truth came out was fantastic. It added another layer to this world that Blain has wonderfully built. And gave me a new insight into the different species that dance around the pages of this series. I kind of loved that, alongside Layla’s history, there is a whole lot of information about unicorns. They’re most definitely not the innocent paragons of virtue that I expected. They’re much more sex fiendish and happy to cause chaos – which I’d honestly rather.

Both of Xena and Dean (the unicorns within this story) are freaking hilarious. You have Xena on the one hand who is determined to take over the world. All of her antics made me smile and giggle, plus, she’s just trouble walking. Honestly, just a story on her would’ve made me happy. But, then you add in Dean. He is just wonderfully determined and set on his future wife. I’m not entirely sure just how he settled on Layla so quickly, it wasn’t quite an instalove idea, but something akin to it. But, I love how he is just… content to keep working at his chosen wife whether anyone else likes it or not.

There was so much that I loved about this story, but I think that one of my favourite aspects is just Layla’s willingness to stab anyone. With anything she can get her hands on. I’m not entirely sure how a handbag can be turned into a shiv, but I loved reading about her trying to do so. She is so damn aggressive and violent, yet innocent and sweet. I may have closed my eyes with laughter every time Layla tried to shiv someone if I’m being honest…

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