Title: Client from Hell
Author: R.J. Blain
Series: Magically Hellish Comedy #1
Rating Out of 5: 5 (I will read this again and again and again)
My Bookshelves: Humour, Paranormal romance, Urban fantasy
Pace: Medium
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2021

Honestly, I’m going to love any story which starts with somebody setting fire to the devil’s home. The convoluted, revenge based reasoning was more than a little questionable, but it was definitely a great start to a story. And a funny one on top of that. Plus, this is a series which  makes Satan kind of adorable and seriously lovely, so the fact that someone is willfully burning down his house to teach him to better mind his manners? Again, a hilarious and wonderful beginning to a story.

As much as I enjoyed reading this novel, cancer is a bit of a touchy subject for me at the moment, so some of that was a little bit difficult. But, I did love that Sandra is able to survive an untreatable cancer through experimental treatments. It’s kind of nice to hope that that sort of thing happens in real life. It also made me feel a little less triggered with a topic that would normally be incredibly triggering for me at the moment.

I love that the partner that Sandra ultimately ends up with is the devil’s brother-in-law. And that, when she decides to take him as her partner, she just kind of… takes charge of the situation. Actually, most of this story is just Sandra taking the insanity around her, and taking charge of it all. She is also able to accept her partner’s kleptomaniac and trouble making ways, just telling him how to limit it to levels that she can handle. She also, frequently, and with great gusto tells Satan to shove off and let her be.

There is a whole lot of drama throughout this story and a little bit of romance, plus Client from Hell follows on beautifully from Catnapped. It also highlights that there is a whole lot more drama and devil machinations of manipulating animals and the lycanthrope virus to be had. I can’t wait for the next story in this spin-off series. Plus, this features a crazy arsonist who is just running free….

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