**This blog contains adult language and discussion of....ahem....adult activities.**
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!!! This is a recap blog which means I read the book and tell you everything that happens so you don't have to read it yourself (you're welcome). Do NOT continue to read unless you want to have the story completely and utterly spoiled.
Book Description: It's Christmas, everyone is dead, Reece's headaches are getting worse, and she has nowhere to run, until he steps out of the alley. Reece finds herself torn between hating the virus that claimed everyone she loved and lusting after the companion she's always known, but things are not as they seem. Their passion quickly turns to violence, explosions and a steamy tale of revenge.
The sentence structure in that description made me feel very stabby.We begin with our protagonist Reese walking through an empty, rainy city. It's windy and she tells us that the wind whips her SHIRT up revealing her thong. Um....honey, I don't think you're wearing your thong in the right place. Bless your heart.
The city is decorated for Christmas and everything reminds her of her childhood. Her dad is dead now. She's on the run but she doesn't tells us from what. She collapses against a building and is immediately approached by something she calls the creature. It calls her “sweet girl” and drapes its coat around her because she seems cold. She hasn't seen anyone else in so long that she begs it to talk again just so she can hear another voice. He starts to recite some kind of poem to her and she finishes the stanza which prompts him to declare she's “the one”. She tells us she's been hearing his voice in her head all her life.
He leads her to an old warehouse and she's conflicted about what to do. Part of her is soothed by Creature and she wants to stay with him but the other part of her is screaming that she should run away. She doesn't end up listening to the second one. Creature lights a bunch of candles and she sees that the room has a lot of art work and a huge bed in it. She also gets her first good glimpse of him. She tells us that instead of skin he has a “swirling substance like vapors and oils condensed into beauty”. I can't even imagine that that would look like. Is he not solid? Or is he solid with just bizarre markings?
Reese instantly wants to add his banana to her fruit salad, if you know what I mean, but as she's thinking about it, she gets a really bad migraine. Creature yells at someone to get out but Reese can't see anyone. He warns Reese that “she” will be back and they have to hurry. She has no idea what they're supposed to do. He comes closer and she feels pure lust for him. She knows she loves him even though she just met him, doesn't know his name and he's probably not human.
They go straight to bed even though she just met him, doesn't know his name and he's probably not human. In the middle of the....ahem....dickening, he reveals that he is the virus that killed everyone she loved. She gets angry and then she feels the other, unseen, female force again. The unseen force joins her and they proceed to fuck the virus's brains out because that's good revenge I guess. Reese has some kind of birthmark on her stomach and it begins to glow as she and the force....ahem.....saddle up and ride.
At some point in this smash fest, Reese leans forward and bites his ear hard enough to make him bleed. No big deal, right? Except she tells us that he begins to bleed out – mid sex – on the bed. She feels triumphant because she's craving revenge but she also feels sad because she loves this nameless non-human that she just met. She leans forward to kiss him and then they both....ahem....arrive. As she does, she feels her soul leave her body alone with his and the unseen force's. Her soul crawls back into her mouth but the other two souls change into dragons and crash through the roof into the sky.
Reese goes outside to watch the two souls battle. His is shimmering and light and the unseen female force's is dark and menacing. The dark one grabs the light one and pins him to the ground. Reese throws a rock at the dark soul and hits it right between the eyes, stunning it. The light soul is able to get free and it bites the head off the dark soul.
The light soul comes toward Reese but before he can reach her, the dark soul explodes sending the light soul slamming into the building in a blast of heat and fire. Reese wants to run into the flames to save him but she ends up walking away instead. She tells us her birthmark is gone now and I don't know how she knows this because.......wait a minute. Is she naked? I mean, they were mid-smash when the whole dragon/soul thing happened and it never said she got dressed. Surely she isn't wandering around naked.
Like that's the weirdest part of this story. Sheesh.
She looks down and realizes she's bleeding. From something. I don't know. The blood stretches out in a trail behind her. As she watches, it gathers together and then becomes Creature. He reaches inside her and gathers up the rest of her blood. It doesn't kill her. In fact, it seems to be his blood and not hers??? I have no fucking idea what this book is trying to tell me. Nothing makes any sense.
She tells us she's barely fond of Creature now. She asks him to explain things and I'm grateful because I understand NOTHING.
He says the dark soul was Rosha. They were lovers years ago but she cheated on him with a metric fuck ton of human men. One day she tried to poison him with something that only works on demons (so he's a demon???) but he saw her do it and tried to get revenge. She got away and started hiding in human bodies. I guess she's been hiding in Reese all this time???
Creature-the-demon turned himself into a virus because demons are not affected by viruses and then he decided to infect everyone to weed out where Rosha might be hiding. Because everyone who wasn't inhabited by a demon would die. Except we know that the survivability rate for Covid is actually quite high so this makes no scientific sense. I guess science has no place here.
Creature-the-demon knew he could force the Rosha out of hiding by having sex with Reece. (((There are weird rules in this place.))) He also wanted to impregnate Reese to repopulate the world. As soon as he says the word 'impregnate', Reese can feel the “rapidly developing demon infant hybrid” inside her moving. She tells him they might need some extra practice if they intend to repopulate the world and asks him to nail her in a cafe across the street.
Reese grabs a bottle of dish soap as the demon-creature puts her on the counter to start....ahem....dining south of the border if you know what I mean. She pours the dish soap over his head and he begins to break apart. She covers him with soap and watches him melt into the floor. So....he's dead then.
Suddenly Reese is waking up. She's in a little suburban home with her hunky husband Mark and their kids. It was all a dream. The book ends with this......
“So, remember dear reader. Have fun where you can and don't shame yourself for cracking jokes or having weird steamy dreams during these strange times, but remember to take this virus seriously when it matters and honor those lost by wearing a freaking mask when you go out.”
We're also told that we need this pandemic to end so we can all go out and have freaky consensual sex with whoever we want. Because that's the most pressing issue here.
That was a train wreck. I don't even want to call it a book. I have NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THAT WAS.
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