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For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hell's Belles #1) by Jaysea Lynn

Genre:
Fantasy, Romantasy, Humor, Fantasy Romance, Demons, Adult, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Magic, Sci-Fic, Spicy

Publication Date:
January 28, 2025

Page Numbers:
695

Read/Finished Date:
September 10th, 2025 - September 11th, 2025

Rating:
5/5

Premise:

They told her to go to Hell.
She’ll go on her own terms.

Lily is less than thrilled about her arrival to the Afterlife, but what awaits her is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined. Deities wait in line at the coffee shop. Fae flit between realms. Souls find ways to make death a beginning. As Lily explores everything the Afterlife has to offer, she finds herself drawn to a place most people would rather avoid at all costs: Hell.

What she discovers there subverts everything she’s ever learned, and Lily realizes the demons working at the gate to guide souls need help—badly. Armed with years of customer service experience and pent-up sarcasm, Lily carves out a place for herself among the demons, confronting, sassing, and aiding the spectrum of humanity to redefine justice and redemption.

A chance meeting with Bel, a demon general with a distractingly sexy voice, sparks an immediate and deeply healing friendship. However, the undeniable heat between them simmers, and it’s only a matter of time before it combusts.

Meanwhile, something stirs beyond the boundaries of their world, threatening to destroy everything they’ve ever known and everything that could be… unless they fight like Hell to stop it.

Review:

I had been hearing a lot of good things about this novel. Everything from the hilarity of the afterlife to the realism one feels about their own mortality when faced with the knowledge that their life is about to end to the fact that this had once been a fanfic (?). So, I decided that I would give this a chance. I mean, it has been on my TBR for quite some time and Kindle Unlimited had it.

I wasn't disappointed. The characters were intriguing. The world-building was wonderful. And our main couple was everything. They grew on you quickly from the first moment they both arrived on the pages. This book was fun. It kept you wanting more and held you until the final page of the novel.

I cannot wait to read the next book in the series.