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Snowballs in Hell
by
Eve Langlais
erotica in a Kindle edition that was published by the author on October 31, 2015 and has 230 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Lucifer's Daughter", Delicate Freakn' Flower, A Demon and His Witch
Second in the Princess of Hell erotica urban fantasy romance series and revolving around Muriel, Lucifer’s goody-two-shoes daughter.
My Take
I thought I’d enjoy this with all the snark and topsy-turvy viewpoints, but Muriel was such a whiner!! She truly is out of step with Hell.
Muriel’s relationship with her dad is a crack-up. He’s always urging her to sin, and she has a hard time of it. I wish my dad had gotten excited about my overusing his credit card, lol. We do get a few anecdotes about Muriel’s time in Hell as a child. Hoo, boy. Naughty girl, lol. Her complaints about her succubi sisters getting straight As too had an unexpected response from her dad.
It is funny to think of a demon being all business-like.
I’m confused as to why mention or thought of Muriel’s mother would trigger spells that hurt Muriel. Oh, sure, I get that the spell’s purpose is to force Muriel to not remember her mom, but . . . why? And, yeah, this is where we do meet her mom.
Bambi and her relationship with her sister cracks me up as well. Sigh, all those classes.
Hell doesn’t sound, quite, so bad. There’s no grass or white picket fences, and the air is filled with ash, otherwise it’s ramshackle housing and people working jobs. Only the really, really bad get punishments. It certainly sounds more interesting than Auric’s description of Heaven.
The old crone whom Muriel consults has a straightforward assessment of how Muriel can crack that spell that’s hindering her. This is when Muriel gets so whiny!! She also learns that angels can have sex outside of marriage . . . that rule was never meant for them.
As for the very wounded Bambi, at the end, she manages to recover by having marathon sex with a football team. *I’m still laughing*
Langlais uses a first person protagonist point-of-view from Muriel’s perspective, so everything is seen, heard, and felt through her.
Snowballs in Hell is mostly thought with Muriel obsessing over having to have a threesome. Naturally there’s action with battles with demons and others. Most of the humor is in Muriel’s interactions with Lucifer.
The Story
Last time, everyone in Hell went to sleep, this time Hell has frozen over. The implications of all those promises to do something “when Hell froze over” is terrifying!
There’s only one thing Muriel can do to help her father: Sex. Have lots and lots of sex with more than one person. Horrors!
The Characters
Satana Muriel Baphomet is the twenty-three-year-old no-longer-a-virgin bastard daughter of Lucifer. Auric, a fallen angel who regained wings in Lucifer’s Daughter, 1, is her live-in boyfriend. David, a panther shifter, and Christopher, a wizard, are Auric’s best friends.
Lucifer, a.k.a. Satan, actually does love his daughter, he simply can’t show it. Bambi, one of Muriel’s sisters, is a succubus who works as an exotic dancer. Remy, a fire demon, and Xaphan are part of the demonic guard. Philokrates “Polkie” is Lucifer’s squat major domo. Charon, the ferryman of death, is having family problems. That kid of his . . .
Nexus is . . .
. . . the tavern Muriel owns that’s set up for magical and special beings. It only plays hits from the eighties. Staff includes dryads for barmaids and Percy, a half-giant, who is the barman and bouncer.
The hooded one has left Muriel in fear after events in Lucifer’s Daughter. Azazel had been a major demon, Lucifer’s now-former second-in-command, and still has fantasies about courting Muriel.
The Cover and Title
The cover is chilly with blues and whites. In the foreground, we see Muriel with her long dark red hair in a black bustier holding a flaming sword inside a gazebo-like room decorated with pillars and Celtic knotwork. Its large windows show us a landscape of snow covering trees and the grounds. Just under Muriel’s chin is the author’s name in a chilly black-shadowed pale blue with an info blurb underneath it in a pale pink. Then there’s the title with the first word in a frosty gradient of white to a colonial blue with the last two words in a frosty gradient of pale turquoise to black. At the bottom is the series info in white.
The title is about Hell freezing over, for there are Snowballs in Hell.
