Review & Giveaway: Demons and Lullabies (The Demons Age #2) by Kallysten

5 Stars
Demons and Lullabies
Series: The Demons Age, #2
Author: Kallysten
Genre: Male/Male, Paranormal Romance,
Publisher: Self-Published
Ebook
Pages: 254

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In Demons and Lullabies by Kallysten we meet Andrew, a father (and vampire) who has just lost his love (human) during the birth of their son. As a vampire it is illegal for him to keep the child and raise him, the baby would be taken away, which is why Andrew decides to move away from the city where he and Cara had met, fallen in love and lived at—away from where everyone knows he is a vampire.

Not long after he moves and begins to set his life up again, including his Special Forces business (which takes care of ‘bad’ vampire who kill humans) Nicholas his wayward Childe (a human that he turned into a vampire) and ex-lover comes back into his life.

Nicholas and Andrew’s relationship starts back again and through the book we see both snap shots of their and their son Jacob’s life.

But at the time Jacob was born—demons started appearing everywhere, the first sighting really close to their old house. The coincidence does not go unnoticed by Andrew and is only highlighted by the fact that it is pretty much impossible for a vampire and human to have a baby. Andrew believes that magic may have had some part in it and that Cara may have unintentionally opened up the way for the demons.

I do not think I have ever read a book like this. Not one that just highlights snapshots of characters life.

Now when I say snapshots you may be thinking really short chapters about random things in one book (kind of like an anthology maybe) but that is not it at all. We start with Jacobs’s birth and have a full chapter on this and then full chapters on each years of his life up until he is seventeen. Of course Jacob is not the sole focus of the book we get both Andrew’s and Nicholas’ point-of-view as well.

I loved how we got everything in the snapshots and though I would have loved to have some of them much longer so I could see what happened afterward I would not have it any other way! We get Jacob growing up, having to hide the fact that his fathers’ are vampires, his fear when they hunt demons and his desire to do the same.

No matter how is fathers’ try to dissuade him he’s determined to follow in their footsteps and help them, especially when he finds out more about how he was conceived and that it may be directly linked to the demons’ appearance in their world.

We also get both Andrew’s and Nicholas’ love for him, their fears and protectiveness of him, disagreements, and fights and then we also get just Nicholas and Andrew… I will only give you one guess as to what they were doing. ;)

Kallysten writes a wonderfully erotic sex scene and those are parts I definitely would not have minded if they had been longer. Lol

After reading this book I am very curious as to what the first book Fangs and Lullabies is about, it seems (from the description) to also be about Jacob’s birth, Andrew and Nicholas. So I am defiantly looking forward to picking it up and seeing what it is about.

Through this is the second book of The Demons Age series I was never once confused or felt like I was missing something, Kallysten’s goal to make this book readable as a stand-alone novel was very successful so don’t fret if you have this book but not the first yet!

Overall I completely loved this book (and desperately hope it is going to be in paperback—I want it on my bookshelf so I can pick it up again!) The character development is smooth and very obvious, the plot both interesting and engaging, it was very fast paced for me; I read it in just one sitting. Seeing Jacob grow and learn from both of his fathers’ POV and Jacob’s well was both very inventive and unique for me and not something I have ever heard (or read) done before. Come to mention it I can not think of one single book that is anything like Demons and Lullabies.

Both unique heartwarming and at times erotic Demons and Lullabies is a keeper, and in my opinion a must read of 2012 for anyone who love both male/male and paranormal romance. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a great male/male read.

*I received a hardcover/paperback/eBook copy/ARC of this book for free to review from the author/publisher/tour site; this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own.

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