Date published April 2008
ISBN 978-0-553-80661-8
Urban Fantasy
Hardcover
Reviewed by Shaiha
Hope Adams, tabloid reporter and half demon with a taste for chaos, has been asked by the head of the Cortez Cabal to go undercover. There is a gang of supernaturals that need investigating. Should be an easy way to discharge a debt she owes. It doesn’t take long for Hope to discover more than she expected and to get in over her head.
In PERSONAL DEMON by Kelley Armstrong, readers will be reintroduced to Hope Adams, an Expisco half demon and Karl Marsten, her werewolf lover who just happens to be a professional thief. We are also introduced to the internal workings of a Cabal. Ms. Armstrong does her usual superb job with the characters, dialogue and settings. However, PERSONAL DEMON was a slight disappointment to this reviewer.
The eighth book in the Women of the Underworld series, PERSONAL DEMON is the first book that gives the reader an inside view of one of the men of the underworld. However in this reader’s opinion, the split viewpoints robbed the story of a lot of its power. I am not one that tends to read the chapter names, so I had to keep skipping back a few pages just to see if I was seeing the story from Hope or Lucas’s point of view.
Readers that have been following the Women of the Underworld series, be sure to pick up PERSONAL DEMON as it does a great job of continuing the storyline along. However I wouldn’t recommend it as an introduction to this fantastic series.
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