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Bound to the Incubus: A Paranormal Villain Romance by Nyla Clarke

Series:
N/A

Genre:
Romance, Paranormal, Incubus/Succubus, Dark, Romantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, Urban Fantasy, Standalone, Novella, Beauty and the Beast Retelling

Publication Date:
January 9, 2024

Pages Numbers:
319

Read Date:
January 17th, 2024

Date Finished:
January 17th, 2024

Rating:
3/5

Blurb:

Hunted, claimed, consumed...and he'll make her enjoy it.

Mal
Ghost stories aren’t real, right? So renovating a haunted house shouldn’t be a problem. Occult symbols, creepy noises, flashes of something watching me from the forest—ignore it all, finish the project and move on.Except now I’m trapped with a demon. The same demon at the center of the dark rumors I should have heeded. Now an old spellbook is my only hope of escape from the incubus who insists I belong to him. It’s difficult to decipher, though, when that incubus won’t stop flirting with me. He’s mischievous, irrepressible, charming—and dangerous. I have to keep reminding myself that his only goal is extracting my soul—because his advances are devilishly hard to resist.

Vane
Fear and pleasure, I crave them alike. It’s my nature to feed off screams and sighs, to wring them out, to drink every drop. Forced to go without and I’m practically feral with hunger. I was starting to think I was doomed to this fate.Then the perfect prey wandered in to the trap—of her own volition, no less.She’s too delicious for her own good. After decades of deprivation I can hardly restrain myself. And others are all too eager to snap her up if she slips the snare.But that’s not going to happen. My new pet is exactly what I’ve been missing. A delightful enigma, a beautiful puzzle, a knot of self-control I can’t wait to unravel. Mine alone to savor. And I’m determined to take my time.

This is a standalone steamy gothic romance with a happy ending.

Review:

Mal inherits a home from her aunt. What she does not expect is that it comes with its monster, an incubus named Vane, who has been deprived of food - fear, lust, etc. - for nearly 150 years. When Mal drops blood onto a seal it binds the two of them together. Now Mal and Vane will need to find a solution that will break the bond that tethers them together.

I had this on my radar since December and I was excited to get it. I love it when the villain is the one who always gets the girl. In this case, it is an incubus. Nevertheless, I wish I could say that this book passed all of my feelings but I could not find the connection that should have been there for both Mal and Vane. It just seemed so empty.

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