Title: The Darkest Fire
Author: Gena Showlater
Series: Lords of the Underworld #0.5
Rating Out of 5: 5 (I will read this again and again and again)
My Bookshelves: Demons, Paranormal romance, Urban fantasy
Pace: Fast
Format: eBook, Novella
Year: 2008

For a darkly themed paranormal romance, this was a bit of a cute novella. I mean, the Goddess of Oppression and the Guardian of Hell manage to find their way to one another after crushing on each other for millennia. And then they manage to try and fight all of the evil to stop it from being unleashed on the world. Honestly, everything about this was fun and cute. Even though it was also a little dark with that lovely adult spin that I love so much in the novellas that fill my shelves.

There is so much chaos and mayhem throughout this story. I might have enjoyed the romance aspect of this story, but I mostly just loved the demons, manipulations and violence throughout. Plus, this prequel novella perfectly sets up the rest of the Lords of the Underworld series. Yet another series to add to my shelves that will have me smiling and itching to pick up my ereader again and again and again.

Although I knew that this story was going to end in a happily ever after, because this is why I read paranormal romances or romances of any sort, it definitely wasn’t the ending that I was expecting. In fact, it was probably one of the darker “happily ever after” endings that I’ve read in a long time. But, as a beginning of a new series, I can’t wait to see how their story unfolds. I mean, there is a whole lot of endings to this, but there’s also that sense of a new beginning. And I’m sure that the echoes of this couple are going to be around long into this series.

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