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Devouring Flame

Enchanted Occasions, Book 2

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Devouring Flame

By: E.J. Russell
Narrated by: Kirt Graves
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Summary

Can a chance meeting rekindle their incendiary attraction?

While cutting through the Interstices—the post-creation gap between realms—Smith, half-demon tech specialist for Enchanted Occasions Event Planning, spies the person he yearns for daily but dreads ever seeing again: the ifrit, Hashim of the Windrider clan.

On their one literally smoldering night together, Smith, stupidly besotted, revealed his true name—a demon’s greatest vulnerability. When Hashim didn’t return the favor, then split the next morning with no word? Message received, loud and clear: Thanks but no thanks.

Although Hashim had burned to return Smith’s trust, it was impossible. The wizard who conjured him holds his true name in secret, and unless Hashim discovers it, he’ll never be free.

When their attraction sparks once more, the two unite to search for Hashim’s hidden name—which would be a hell of a lot easier if they didn’t have to contend with a convention full of food-crazed vampires on the one day out of the century they can consume something other than blood.

But if they fail, Hashim will be doomed to eternal slavery, and their reignited love will collapse in the ashes.

Luckily Smith is the guy who gets the job done—and Hashim is never afraid to heat things up.

Devouring Flame is a 54,000-word enemies-to-lovers, second-chance paranormal rom-com featuring a down-at-heels carnival with sinister undertones, a minotaur with an affinity for flowers, a prima donna goblin berserker chef with serious knife skills, and a guaranteed HEA.

©2019 E.J. Russell (P)2022 E.J. Russell
Fiction Literature & Fiction Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Science Fiction Fantasy
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After re-reading the synopsis, there’s a lot to unpack with this book. First of all, I loved the main characters. Poor Hashim is a slave to Ringmaster and as long as the man knows Hashim’s real name, he wields all the power. At one point, Hashim believes he’ll be set free. Alas, in heartbreak, that doesn’t happen. He also discovers that the released slaves might not have had happy endings after all.

Smith’s just an ordinary demon. He works for Enchanted Occasions – the event planning organization that caters to the supernatural both above and below. This time, they’re catering a vampire feast. Apparently for one day every 100 years, vampires can eat real food. So in comes the berserker chef to whip up a feast. And it’s Smith’s job to keep everyone on task. Except he’s distracted by the one man he’s never been able to forget.

Things don’t look good for the two men until they are able to use power beyond the human realm to attempt to bring down Ringmaster and his fiendish schemes once and for all.

Anyway, I won’t spoil the exciting ending although I will say I loved the HEA. Also, Kirt Graves did a great job narrating this story and I appreciate how perfect he is for this series.

Oh, and I loved the minotaur. Just saying…

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MM, Paranormal, Comedy, Romance. an intriguing and compelling story with angst, heat, action and drama all with a humourous and witty slant (a fight scene really shouldn't be that funny, lol.) I love that there are so many different paranormals featured in the story. Brilliantly narrated by Kirt Graves and I enjoyed listening to their guaranteed HEA.

A lot To Fight For.

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Loved this. It's book two and makes reference to events in a previous book but I never felt lost or unable to understand what was going on. This is a second chance romance and once the misunderstanding is hashed out they slip quite easily into a relationship. And while the romance is lovely it definitely takes second place to the goings-on around them. The carnival. The slave-trading. The vampire convention.
A brilliant performance by Kirt Graves, with a myriad of accents to embrace.
I'll definitely be checking out the other books in the series.

Brilliant Fun

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EJ. Russell does a great job with the universe building in this series. All the myths and stories you can think of, meeting modern technology in a place in-between.
It makes lots of room for humour, politics, work related shenanigans and life-and-death situations, as well as luuuurv.
I always like it when authors use alternate realities to highlight the weirdness of humanity, and there is a fair bit of that, too, in this series.
Highly recommended, I am going for book three in the series now!

How to build a universe!

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Another brilliant book by EJ Russell and a super addition to the series. Perfect balance of adventure and romance to keep you hooked. Interesting characters to follow. Kirt Graves did a superb job with the narrion. Can not wait for more in the series.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

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