Bewitching Sloth (Seven Deadly #1) by Michelle Gross

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Title: Bewitching Sloth (Seven Deadly, #1)
Author: Michelle Gross, Shantella Benson
Series: Seven Deadly #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Pages: 307
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:

Blurb:

Reapers are the peacekeepers—the balancers of life and death, good and evil. They’re the police of the Underworld in a way. They keep both worlds balanced just enough so that the King of the Underworld can never escape his prison. For the day his reign stretches into the human world, all things good will come to an end. This is the story of a dark king who cursed seven siblings with sins, and how far those seven went to protect both worlds from the end of days when an old entity challenged the Dark One’s very reign.

Isabella Wen has spent the last decade in the human world hiding from the one that turned her touch deadly, made her body a weapon for his own gain.Sebastian Reaper—bearer of the sin of sloth and the eldest son of the revered Grim Reaper—has spent his entire life fighting to stay awake because of his curse.When the witch finds the sleepy sloth passed out in the human hospital, they touch and sparks fly. Her touch should have hurt him. Instead, it’s the one thing he’s after.She thinks her darkness is her undoing. He thinks she’s his cure.When her past and her future collide, he must choose between duty and heart.The world or her?

Each book in the series is about a different sibling and their sin, so the romance has an ending in each book. As for the storyline, it’s just getting started.

My Review:

This was a cool take on the seven deadly sins.  A real cool take, I have never even read a book with the seven deadly sins and it was exciting.

Sebastian is an easy going kind of reaper.  He seems like a normal guy, except the whole undead thing, and the reaper thing, and his uncontrollable sleeping habits.  But other than that…..LOL.  He is not a super dominant guy, more into using honey to attract Isabella instead of some alpha doucheness.  His sweet demeanor towards her is a nice change from the alpha’s that I usually read.  He seems to be always smiling and taking everything in stride, even his attraction towards Isabella and her deadly touch.  He doesn’t pressure her to do or give more than she is ready for.  His patience was something that attracted me to him. Which I found weird but whatever.

Isabella is a bit of a scatterbrain, a fact I really can’t blame her for since she was basically experimented on at a young age and has mad trauma accompanying it.  But she doesn’t shut down right away when something doesn’t go the way she is expecting it to go.  She issn’t rigid in her personality. Sure, she cautious at first, who can blame her, but she deals and moves past it fairly quickly and with the help of Sebastian and his rationality. The romance thing moved a bit fast for me but the sub plot was excellent.

I will be reading more from this author.