Monday, January 6, 2020

#Review - Demon Bound by Chris Cannon #Paranormal #Romance

Series: Standalone
Format: E-Galley, 400 pages
Release Date: January 6th 2020
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Source: Publisher
Genre: Paranormal / Romance

When a summoning goes awry, suddenly booknerd Meena’s summer job becomes something drastically different. Instead of cleaning eccentric Carol’s house, she’s bound to a demon as his soul-collector. Soon Meena discovers that the boring, pageant-obsessed, bonfire-loving town that she’s never fit in to is a hotbed for soul-sucking demons, demon-hunting witches, and vampires who just wanna have fun… And then she comes into her own powers.

Could things get any stranger? Good thing she meets new guy Jake—who gets her and still hangs around.

When Jake’s mom sends him off to his Aunt Zelda’s for the summer, he thought he’d be bored. But nothing is what it seems in this town. His aunt isn’t just odd, she’s a witch who fights demons and tries to maintain the magical balance of the town. Jake should get the hell out of there and, he would leave, except for bad-ass newbie witch Meena, who looks at him like he matters.

He never counted on sticking around, but Meena’s bound to a demon who wants to destroy her soul—and Jake’s finally found someone worth fighting for.






Chris Cannon's Demon Bound is a paranormal romance set in a small town called Crossroads which apparently is somewhere in Southern Illinois. 17-year old Meena Holland calls Crossroads home. Entertainment consists of the diner, library, pageants and bonfires. Meena spends a good portion of her time hiding out in the library. She lives in books and can’t wait to go away to college. But, books cost money, and Meena needs to find a summer job quickly. Meena decides to apply for part-time cleaning lady for Old Lady Winslow aka Wacky Winslow. 

Carol, her real name, warns Meena not to mess with the salt, it's everywhere, and she has a cat named Goblin who we will learn more about shortly. Meena's first job is to pick up a package from a woman named Zelda who is supposed to be a fortune teller. Here is where Meena meets Jake Grant. Jake has just moved to Crossroads and has been told that working for Zelda will build character. Jake and his mother have moved from town to town while his mother moved from one man to another. What Jake doesn't know, is that Witches, demons, ghosts, and vampires also make Crossroads their home, which makes for some interesting dynamics.

The story actually alternates between Meena and Jake. Almost immediately after meeting, Meena and Jake are practically fawning over the other and quickly begin an interesting dynamic that is filled with insecurity and jealousy when Meena learns that a sexy vampire named Sybil is pining after his body. The trouble begins in earnest when Carol tries to summon a minor demon and ends up summoning Bane instead which ends up with Carol being collared. Carol has been a torn in Bane's side by attempting to convince people not to make deals with him. 

Bane has a monopoly of collecting the souls of the fine folk of Crossroads. With Carol and Zelda in a time out, as it were, Meena who works for Carol, now has to work for Bane collecting souls. She gets a shiny new bracelet that calls her every time that Bane needs her for a job. Becoming Bane's human relations person isn't all that it's cracked up to be. In the meantime, Meena tries to find a way to break the contract so that she doesn't have to waste her summer working for Bane. She also decides to try to find a way to save her mother who was bipolar and tried to commit suicide. Her mother has been in a coma for 3 years. 

Meena also learns that her father has avoided Bane for half his life. Bane tried to offer him a remedy of saving her mother, but the risk of his own soul, no way. Meena also learns that she may be a witch after Sage appears and claims her. Oh, and Sage can also take human form and is something of an Italian hottie with his own credit card and money. Carol also has a familiar named Goblin who can also take human form. He is very protective of Carol who seems almost clueless as to how she can regain her freedom from Bane. 

This is my first Cannon novel. I did not read the authors previous series Going Down in Flames. The ending is perhaps the story could do. The resolution to Meena's issue with Bane is pretty extreme but not going to be all judgy about it. I also didn't like Jake all that much towards the ending. He finds himself on a separate crusade when he spent much of the book trying to protect Meena. There needs to be more said about the Father as well. He accepted things all too easily once Meena started digging into her heritage. I will give him prop for refusing Bane's numerous offers, however.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48985284-demon-bound



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