Lucifer’s Daughter by Kel Carpenter

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Title: Lucifer's Daughter
Author: Kel Carpenter
Series: Queen of the Damned #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 178
Genres: Paranormal Romance
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Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Reading Assignment Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Summer Hunt
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My rating:

Blurb:

We’ve all heard the story of the Four Horsemen. Harbingers of the apocalypse. Destruction given form. Four of the sexiest—wait no—forget that. You get my point.

So imagine my surprise when I find out everything I’ve ever been told, is a lie.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here. Let’s start from the beginning.

My name is Ruby Morningstar. I run a tattoo parlor in Portland with my bestfriend, have a pet raccoon, a crazy ex that stalks me, not to mention this one little thing… I’m a demon. Half-succubus, to be exact. For the last twenty-three years of my life, that’s the story I believed, but on the day a handsome stranger bails me out of jail my world is turned upside down, and suddenly I don’t know who I am anymore.

Because the Four Horsemen aren’t the bringers of the apocalypse.

I am.

Talk about never catching a break.

My Review:

3.5 stars — Dudes, this cover is one of the major reasons why I wanted to give this book a try.  It truly is amazeballs.  And the blurb is hella intriguing too!!  I haven’t read a lot of reverse harems, and so why not start with the four horsemen of the apocalypse?  😉  And it was good, it just didn’t blow me away.  Part of that is that it’s pretty short, and while I was intrigued by where the plot was going, I apparently wasn’t intrigued enough to want to continue.  And because it was shorter, it was a lot of introduction, and not a lot of connection for me.

Ruby was hella snarky, and I thoroughly enjoyed that.  I thought the moral conundrums she faced made for some depth to her character, and was definitely unexpected and appreciated.  I will admit the bits we learn about her past in the end caught me by surprise.  I wouldn’t have minded if the foreshadowing had been a bit more obvious or something…but maybe that was just me and I was reading distracted.

As for the four horsemen?  I didn’t really feel like I had enough time to get to know them that well…I wasn’t really attached to any of them.  I thought they were intriguing, for sure, and it was an interesting concept…but I just…  I don’t know.  Maybe it was just me.  But not only did *I* not connect with them, I also didn’t see much of a connection between any of them with Ruby.  Sure, attraction for sure, but what beyond that?  It might come in the next books, but I needed more in this book for me to be invested.

I was also not a huge fan of Moira…I don’t know why, but I felt reservations about her.  Bandit on the other hand was spectacular.

And since I don’t read a lot of paranormal, I felt like while the world was intriguing, I was a bit lost with it all.  So many creatures, and not all of the names familiar.

So I think the theme for me was a lack of connection.  I did connect and enjoy Ruby, but that was about it.  I’m sure it’ll be a hit for others, it just didn’t have enough of what I was looking for for me to check out the rest.

COYER Summer Hunt: Read a book with a traditionally evil character as main character. (ex. murderer, devil) — 4 points.