Book Review and ARC Giveaway: A Demon Does it Better by Linda Wisdom

This is fast paced and great fun!

A Demon Does it Better

by Linda Wisdom

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (January 1, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402236727
• ISBN-13: 978-1402236723

      Genre: Paranormal Romance
      My Rating: 4.5 of 5.0
 

Book Description
Publication Date: January 1, 2012
A MADHOUSE IS NO PLACE FOR A CURIOUS WITCH...
After more than a century, Doctor Lili Carter, witch healer extraordinaire, has returned to San Francisco and taken a job at Crying Souls Hospital and Asylum, where something peculiar and wicked his happening. Patients are disappearing, and Lil wants to know why.
AND DOUBLY DANGEROUS FOR A DEMON...
Lili finds herself undeniably attracted to perhaps the most mysterious patient of all-a demented but seriously sexy demon named Jared. What's behind the gorgeous chameleon demon's late-night escapades?
Before long, Lili and Jared are investigating each other-and creating a whole new kind of magic.

Review:
Lili is a lively witch Doctor - as in healer.  She has returned to the San Francisco hospital where she worked years before to try to find out why one of her good friends disappeared. Lili is to work closely with the insane patients in the Asylum. The hospital is designed for supernatural beings and the upper floors are well maintained and bright under the command of a dragon of a nurse - literally - she’s a tough dragon shifter. Unfortunately the wizard doctor in charge of the mental Asylum has left that area like a dungeon. 

Jared is one of the patients kept in the dark. He is a demon who once massacred a pack of vampires, getting him banned from his own clan as too dangerous.  The guard trolls love to rough him up. Lili wants to help all of the patients but especially Jared. There is torture going on and a locked lab that Lili must investigate.

Jared is a shadow demon and uses the shadows to sneak out and visit Lili.  She knows it is unprofessional to date a patient but Lili can’t help but be drawn to Jared. When he visits her he is clean, kind, charming, funny and darkly sexy. And he is astounded that she treats him as 'human.'

These are two really warm and likeable characters.  There’s also a snarky side kick cat, Cleo, and lots of other supernatural beings. There is mystery, tension and courting leading up to a sweet but sexy romance which comes along at an appropriate distance in the book blending into the action of the story.  The writing flow is easy and makes a good package with the fast action, humor and warm romance. I have wanted to read the Hexed series by this author but haven’t had the chance yet. I am so glad I read this and now I want to read her books even more.

Here is an example of the snarky humor:
When staying out of the way of her cat’s claws, Lili says:  “...been there, done that, treated the scratches.”

This book is set in San Francisco, CA  for my Where Are You Reading challenge; it will also go on my New Author and ARC challenge lists.


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* This contest is only open to residents of US and Canada.

* This contest will close 10 PM (Central) on February 3, 2012.
The winner will be randomly selected from all entries.
The WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED on February 4. 
Winners will have 72 hours to respond by email or the winners form linked in the announcement.