Jilly's Reviews > Covet

When you start this book you are thinking it will be a paranormal romance with this Jim guy as the hero, but no. He actually ends up being a side-guy, even though the book is about him. Kinda.
See? I really know how to clear things up.
Jim is given a mission to save seven souls to determine if all of humanity will get to go to heaven and experience its heavenly wonders - I'm thinking a Chocolate Buffet - which by the way, they had on the cruise we went on over Christmas.


This is what I did for Christmas.

Except, the heavenly chocolate buffet will have servers that look like Hemsworths and Skarsgaards.

OR, if he fails, and 4 out of 7 pick the Highway to Hell, all of humanity will burn forever in agony and wear ragged clothing while being poked by pitchforks. All while standing in line for some reason.


You think that's bad, you should see the line for the ladies restroom. The men's restroom doesn't have a line. Some things never change.

This is a description of Jim:
A member of the Spare Club for Men, a guy who never used a word when a nod or a shake of the head could get his point across.

Oh, you mean Southern?
I swear, the men down here act like they would have to give up their guns if they spoke more than three words together.


Those are the three words.

Jim's first mission is to save the soul of a guy named Vin. Vin is about to marry a beautiful model, but then he sees a prostitute and rethinks everything. Because, she's not just a prostitute, y'all. She's a prostitute with a heart of gold who looks like Julia Roberts and really hates her job. I'm thinking, look girl, everyone hates their job. We all have to work with more dicks than we would like, and there's always an asshole boss who makes more money off of your work. But, at least she doesn't have to type. It almost makes up for the raging Syphilis.

So, girlfriend works at Trez's club - you know, the guy with one of the worst books in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series? And, guess who else shows up in this book? The guy with the second worse book - Phury. Although, his was a cameo. Trez had an actual side part in this one.

Needless to say, this book had the J.R. Ward feel to it. Tons of references and the lingo that she always uses. I loved this description of a cage-dancer girl at the club, totally cracked me up:

the cages, where a woman was aglow in blue light, writing as if she'd lost a cold penny down the front of her thong and wasn't allowed to use her hands to get it out.

Isn't that the best?

To wrap up my rambling, this book will be fun for lovers of the BDB, but I doubt you will like it if you don't like that series. It has the same feel, but the vampires are not revealed to be there, so you feel like you know a secret that the characters don't know.