Play the Demon

Deals with Demons, Book 6

By: Stacia Stark

Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb

What do you do when the demon you’re reluctantly obsessed with knows your deepest darkest secret?

Every. Excruciating. Detail.

If you’re smart, you push him away and bury yourself in work.

Except that Vas isn’t the kind of guy who’ll allow me to hide from my feelings for long. Even if he did return from the underworld…different.

Meanwhile, I’ve been ignoring all my instincts to hide my tech magic. Instead, I’m using it to help Evie and Kyla solve a high-profile kidnapping case. Not only is it the right thing to do, but the reward money will also allow me to make a fresh start.

But now, my bar is being targeted by my enemies. And Vas insists on shoving his body between mine and any kind of danger. Even though he has his own vengeance to plan. But by choosing to shield me, Vas may have switched from the hunter...to the hunted.

Now it's my turn to protect him.

If you like K.F Breene, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Faith Hunter, Laurell K. Hamilton, Jennifer Estep, Shannon Mayer, Kim Harrison, and Dannika Dark, you’ll love this series.

Listen to it now.

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Great Great Great

I thoroughly enjoyed this entire series. Great storyline and the characters development was just amazing. There were some got ole steamy parts and some wholesome tear jerkers.

Meredith and Vas

While this is the 6th books in this particular series, it is actually more like the 1st book in a new spin off. The overarching story arc of the first 5 books was concluded in the last book and this book has the main focus on 2 new MC's - from the same world though as before.

In this book, the storyline revolves around the female MC Meridith. We don't know too much about Meridith when this begins other than she is a friend of Danica's and she owns a bar that is a kind of neutral gathering place for any type of paranormal. We are told in snippets that Mer has some type of "tech magic" and that she does not belong to a coven.

We DO know the other MC....... it is VAS! Vas was Danica's best male bud or a better term is probably her demon side kick. His job had been to stick close to Danica as everything was unfolding with her and Samael. I absolutely fell in love with Vas over the course of this series, so I was thrilled to have the storyline revolve around him.

Apparently, he was born in the Underworld, where his parents were assassinated by another demon assassin when he was a child. He escaped through a portal during the war with his Uncle Ag (can't remember how to spell his long name) and he grew up topside. His Uncle Ag was Samael's second in command, so he is part of Samael's inner circle. Vas is about 70 years old (which is a total baby in demon years) and is one of the youngest demons. Since he was raised topside, he is also the demon with probably the most human traits.

One of Vasago's gifts was the ability to see someone's most inner secrets and when Meridith realized that Vas knew hers - that was it for her. We were told previously that Vas had a thing for Meridith, but that's why she wanted nothing to do with him. When this book starts, he had pretty much given up on her, but then had a change of mind after the latest war (where his powers that shouldn't have arrived for centuries suddenly appeared). Vas decided that he was tired of letting Meridith push him away.

After the war, Danica and Samael are staying in the Underworld to rule now that they are the King and Queen. That leaves Evie and Kyla to jump in and fill the space of the business that Danica had started as private investigators. They seem to have included Meridith in their group. Their first case is to find a missing pregnant light fae who has been kidnapped. Somehow, things seem to spiral from there.

Vas is also sticking around because he is getting some interest from Meridith and he also becomes wrapped up in everything going on. There is way too much to go into plot wise other than to say that Vas is trying to find and kill the demon who killed his parents, and who just also killed his Uncle Ag in the war. He is single mindedly focused on that, while at the same time realizing that the girls are getting into their fair shar of trouble with this case.

There are also the deals that Danica had to make in order to save Samael when he was sick and some of those deals are now coming due. One of these involve Kyla and a sword that needs to be stolen....twice.... so I think she might be the focus of the next book....maybe?

Anyway, this was another fun book with lots of action, a couple of unexpected happenings and something that had me tear up (that actually surprised me). While it wasn't as exciting as the previous book, it was still nice to be back in that world with characters that we already know and love.

It is pretty obvious that Ms. Stark has plans for Evie and Nathanial, as well as Kyla and Finvarre so I'll be on the look out for upcoming books. This book has a completed story arc and a pretty nice HEA.

Play the demon

Welllll. Again just fabulous. Loved every moment of this book. Now I have to set tight for the next adventure to come out

Exceptional characters

The story line and how it unfolded so well. Outstanding author, can’t wait to read more!!!

Loved this book

This series is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend reading it in order so it all makes more sense.