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That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Mead Mishaps · Book 1
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Cinnamon would like to stay home and sell spices. Instead, a drunken good deed leaves her traveling with Fallon, a demon determined to free his people from a witch. Her attraction to him makes an already inconvenient quest harder to keep at arm’s length.
From the publisher’s blurb
“On the bright side, at least he keeps burning off his shirt.”Read the full description at Orbit publisher description
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What makes it funny?
Cinnamon brings a homebody’s priorities to a fantasy adventure that expects heroism. The flirting keeps interrupting the grand mission, while casual, modern-sounding exchanges take the ceremony out of demons and destiny.
The comedy at work
The jokes draw on a reluctant heroine, playful romantic sparring and anachronisms that puncture the fantasy setting’s solemnity.
Try this if…
A choice for readers who want explicit romantic fantasy with cheeky dialogue and little reverence for heroic conventions.
Good to know
This opens the Mead Mishaps series. The romance develops quickly and includes explicit sex.
A few distinguishing details
- A spice trader dragged away from her preferred quiet life
- A drunken rescue that becomes a demon’s liberation quest
- Modern banter inside a magical adventure
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