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A choice between Heaven and Hell...
Who, and what, will she choose?

*sighs* Luc. Wow.

Compelling. Addicting. A sexy demon. Heaven and Hell. A special heroine. An angel. What more could you ask for?

Fun, entertaining and pure sexiness.

Full of angels, demons, good versus evil, choices, decisions, forgiveness, second chances, redemption and love.

Perfect for readers of paranormal romance.


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Personal Demons Personal Demons Book 1 Lisa Desrochers Books Reviews

PERSONAL DEMONS is a fun, humorous, exciting, interesting, romantic, hard-to-put-down book. I hated putting it down and couldn't wait to pick it up again to find out where the story was heading. Lisa has created a fascinating backstory of the battle for souls between Heaven and Hell and the angels and demons that are in charge of tagging and protecting those souls. Even the idea of why each side wants Frannie so badly draws the reader into the story even more by feeling the importance of the task. Sarcasm and wittiness abound and make for a more engaging and distinct voice. Because of this, the story provokes some inner-thinking about religious beliefs and what one thinks and feels about both - while also giving a human face to each side. Ultimately, it's a story about love, forgiveness, pure intentions, and redemption and how those can lead to being a "good" person. It looks at the trueness of the soul and what that means for what happens to that soul.

Frannie is a senior in high school, and has her own inner turmoils to deal with, but now she's stuck between Luc (the demon) and Gabe (the angel) as they battle for her soul and she battles to figure out her attraction to each and what's real. The one problem I had with the book was that it's another young adult with a love triangle where the girl seems to instantly fall into crush with the boys involved, but I was okay with it because Frannie is a strong girl who can stand up for herself and fight for what she wants, so I was willing to buy into the attraction - especially because it's hard not to when reading the scenes of the story when she is with Luc. Interestingly enough, I felt the story was really more about Luc's journey than Frannie's. She has her own journey to make to acceptance herself, but it was demon Luc's transformation that I was most intrigued by that made me want to keep reading. That's probably partially due to it being written with alternating perspectives with Luc and Frannie's first person storytelling. I appreciated the way the main characters were written where I was able to discover more about each one as the book went on, and became more invested in what would happen to all of them in this overwhelming holy battle. This is definitely a more mature book in the overall mood of the romance, but is a really good and entertaining read.

Review originally posted on Heise Reads & Recommends
Procurement
I purchased the edition after reading a character interview on Andrea Cremer's blog.

My Grade
Plot 5

Setting 4

Writing 4

Originality 5

Characters 5

Romance 5

Overall 28/30 = 93% A
Cover/Title Bonus 3

Overall
Bada$$ demon boy, soft-hearted angel boy and a Catholic girl who's been kicked out of Catholic school team up in a hilirious, action packed YA urban fantasy unlike any other.

Trailer
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First Line
If there's a Hell on Earth, it's high school.

Plot
I flew through this book! I had to know just what the heck was going on!?! The only thing I can say that I didn't enjoy about the overall theme of the book was that it was very much an adult read, even though it's published by Tor Teen. The only thing that makes this YA/teen is that it's set in a high school and the main character is a high school senior.

Setting
The main setting is the high school that Frannie attends and secondary settings are her home, and the area around her home. While there wasn't anything too awesome going on setting wise, the detail to description was fabulous. I read this book and it unreeled in my head just like a movie. It was a great experience not having any gaps.

Writing
Another book with alternating point of views. This time it's between Frannie and Luc, which was pretty cool being able to see what the demon dude had to say or think. Having both characters narrating helped keep the reader informed about demon happenings but it wasn't completely needed. The only reason I say that is becuase there's another character, Gabe, that doesn't get in on the action of having a POV and I think he really should have had one since Luc was able to have one. It would only have been fair.

Originality
Angels and demons are pretty regular characters in paranormal romance, adult. I haven't read too many demons in YA paranormal but I enjoyed it immensely. His bad attitude was refreshing because you could tell he had a heart inside that thick skinned body. There were several elements that Lisa used throughout that I enjoyed having in the story.

Although Frannie's last name is Cavanaugh, which is the last name that Rachel Vincent uses for her main character, Kaylee, in her Soul Screamers series.

Characters
Frannie and Luc are the primary main characters. There's also Gabe who shows up but he's never given the entire scene. Frannie was kind of a bitch in this. I was a little put off by her attitude at first but I later developed a liking for her and her attitude, especially when she showed it to Luc.

Luc was a badass demon but hilirous and loveable. Gabe is just about the opposite of Luc but such a softy it's not even funny. I'd love to see him with some badass attitude in the follow up.

Romance
There's all kinds of romance going on in this book! Frannie is quite a mess when it comes to guys. Poor thing. And then having a demon and an angel around to make things worse did not help in the least.

The romance in this gets a little hot and heavy but not too much to make it anything to be concerned about. It was very natural for it to get that way.

Cover/Title Bonus
The cover shouts adult urban fantasy to me. I guess because it looks so dark and brooding menish. The models look more adult than teenaged, which is fine because these are high school seniors but you can barely make out the lockers behind Luc so it's hard to tell with a quick glimpse. The models are pretty perfect references to the characters though
A choice between Heaven and Hell...
Who, and what, will she choose?

*sighs* Luc. Wow.

Compelling. Addicting. A sexy demon. Heaven and Hell. A special heroine. An angel. What more could you ask for?

Fun, entertaining and pure sexiness.

Full of angels, demons, good versus evil, choices, decisions, forgiveness, second chances, redemption and love.

Perfect for readers of paranormal romance.