Title: Where There’s Smoke
Author: Karen Kelley
Genre: Adult, Paranormal romance, Supernatural, Erotica
Expected Publication May 1st 2012 by Sourcebooks Casablanca
My Rating 2.5/5
*The publisher provided me with this book for review, via Netgalley.*
Blurb: When sexy wannabe-demon, Destiny Carter, is kicked out of Hell, she lands in Ft. Worth, Texas with one week to corrupt a soul. Or else. She slips into a slinky red dress, and heads straight for the delicious, corruptible looking cowboy at the bar. But Chance Bellew has his own agenda-saving souls. He’s not your typical angel. He’s a nephilim, to be exact. Centuries ago, angels came down from Heaven and mated with mortal women. When the women bore children, a new race was created. Immortals with powers—demigods, nephilim. But the children don’t live by the same rules as mortals, or that of the typical, robe-wearing, bright light-surrounding-them angels. Hell, most of the time the nephilim are breaking the rules, and making up new ones as they go. As long as they don’t cross over to the dark side, everyone pretty much stays out of their way.
But sometimes a demon-in-training, who looks like Destiny, comes along and all Hell breaks loose.
Where there’s smoke by Karen Kelley is one of those weird ones to review. I really, really struggled with it; I lost interest I found myself skimming a lot but not because the book was bad.
This book had everything that a book like this should have. It had an ok story line, a female lead character that you could relate to and a male character that makes you a little weak in the knees.
The sex scenes are just right, they are not overdone and they are not under done. In fact some of them are top-notch.
So why did I struggle so much? I did find it a little far-fetched and a little repetitive but that is something I am used to when reading Paranormal Romance.
At the end of the day I think that this book just wasn’t for me. For some reason I just didn’t connect with it. I just found it all a little flat. There was just something missing.
Despite the sex I think this is supposed to be a love story more than anything else and I didn’t feel the burning romance as much as I think I should have. I think that is where my problems came from. I wanted more.
Despite that I would recommend this book to fans of the genre. I think people will like it.
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