Review Demon Crossings by Eleri Stone
Private investigator Grace tracks a kidnapped child to middle-of-nowhere Iowa. Encountering a strange creature she knows can’t be a local animal, she doesn’t need her psychic abilities to figure out the sleepy town is not what it seems. When she meets the intriguing Aiden, she’s plunged into a world of Norse gods and fire demons where the Wild Hunt still rides the night.
Aiden needs Grace’s help to cross the portal between worlds and rescue his daughter. Grace is unlike any woman he’s ever met. He’s drawn to her courage, distressed by her vulnerability and doubtful of her motives. But he knows that her visions are the key to defeating the enemy and bringing everyone home alive.
Grace wants a future with Aiden, even if it means she’ll never have a normal life. When a test run to the portal takes a terrifying turn, they must learn to finally trust each other or Aiden’s daughter, and their chance at love, will be lost forever…
So I don’t think I’ve ever started a novel before where the main character was abandoned at a mental institute as a child for hearing voices. Thats a new one for me. Whats also new, is the essential premise which combines Norse Gods, Fae legends, and demonic demons. At times the mix of so many mythologies became overwhelming, particularly when you are familiar with the legends themselves and you’re a little thrown by how they’ve been changed to suit the authors purposes but then it does make some sense. And in the end its the last thing you’re worried about.
The hotness of the romance between Grace and Aiden is so distracting that it literally makes all of the problems with the plot, mixing of mythologies, the action becoming a bit predictable and stale, but the romance is intense, and emotional, and it supersedes everything else that is going on. They are such great characters, detailed complex, intense, romantic, and I simply loved seeing them end up together, fighting for Aiden’s daughter, fighting to make their lives come together, and fighting for love.
Even as the book became somewhat mundane and predictable you are so entranced by passion between Grace and Aiden that it doesn’t seem to matter overly much.
Overall Rating: C+
