Much darker than her other series, Damian made a deal with a Gregori demon to become immortal and tries to minimize the damage he does in their service. Marley is very innocent and sometimes naive woman, searching for her missing sister. Along the way she learns passion and falls in love with Damian. It's hard to watch our loved ones making mistakes but Marley has to learn when to let go and when to hold on.
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My Immortal
3 Stars

An intriguing premise and quite steamy - the main characters have great chemistry and the hero is of the tortured kind.

I also enjoyed the flashbacks told through a character's letters. My one issue with the book is that the development of the paranormal mythology is lacking and the resolution of this aspect of the story is lackluster. ( )

The heroine and her sister couldn't be any more different. The sister is careless, spontaneous but selfish and ignorant to the cares of others. The heroine is entirely too selfless. She's so wrapped up in helping others that she's never stopped to consider herself. But the heroine admits to herself a dark a festering jealousy towards her sister. She's envious of the other woman wild abandon but most of all, she's jealous of the fact that the other woman has the one thing the heroine craves above all things; a child. But despite this secret hatred, the heroine still risks everything to save her sister from every situation she finds herself in. So when the sister goes missing for 8 weeks down in New Orleans, the heroine doesn't hesitate to jump in the car and search for her. There, at the property where her sister was last seen at a sex party, she meets the hero. He is beautiful in a dark and dangerous way and in his eyes she can see plainly the pain and suffering he's endured. The hero lived the life of a selfish spoiled and all together evil young man. He made his young wife's life a living hell, torturing her with multiple affairs that succeeded in drawing her to suicide. Arrogant and proud, the hero accepted the gift of immortality but almost immediately he realized the magnitude of the error he had made. Cursed to live for lust and insight mindless sexual needs in others, he's lived in a hollow shell, longing for the death that can never be granted to him. In his life there have been 3 woman whom shaped who and what he is as a man. First his wife whom he didn't realize he loved until it was too late. The half black woman whom he took as a lover in the early stage of his curse and whom he grew a sick and twisted sexual affair with be sacrificing her to the demon in a bid to free himself. And the daughter of the demon whom he's enslaved, creating a strange and complicated bond with over the years. Then he meets the heroine. Prudish, self-conscious and selfless to a fault, she is like no other female he has meet. And the fact that she actually manages to turn down his demonic sexual pull in the factor that seems to make him want her above all others. Despite the fact that he is first betrayed as a bad guy and that reading about his past actions through the pages of his dead wife, he is actually a decent person deep down. In repentance for what he's done, he withdrawn from the pleasures of a woman, instead he only gives pleasure. He is beyond tortured with guilt yet he helps the heroine as much as she helps him. He shows her a whole other world, opens her up to indulgence and in turn, she shows him how to feel love for a woman. I liked the fact that this book had a message and wasn't just a mindless romance. It gave the warning that over indulgence and zero indulgence were equally unhealthy. It portrayed the main characters as coming from opposite ends of the spectrum and through understanding, meeting somewhere in the middle. I loved the hero and the heroine in equally measure but for different reasons. I thought they developed a slow and real love affair despite their refusal to allow their affair to become anything over than sexual. ( )

Good read overall, but I think I found the sub-story with Marie's letters more intriguing than the actual story. ( )

Damien du Bourgh, a spoiled and selfish rich boy, bargains with a demon for immortality. The price? He's now a demon's servant, charged with provoking humans into lust and sin.

Marly Turner is the quintessential good girl. She's spent her whole life taking care of others, being responsible, and erring on the side of moderation. When Marly's sister goes missing, her only clue is an e-mail that leads to Damien's New Orleans plantation. In order to find her sister, Marly must pit herself against Damien and all the temptations he brings.

This is decidedly darker and more sexual than other works by the author, like "Heiress for Hire". Surprisingly, though, the story is more about character development than it would originally seem. The paranormal aspect is rather weak, more of a vehicle than a significant feature of the story. As for the smut factor...yes, sex is a major theme, but I wouldn't consider the book all that smuttier than you're typical bodice ripper. Much is left to the imagination.

Marly and Damien make interesting if predictable characters. The embedded back story of Marie, Damien's deceased wife, is the best part of the story. If McCarthy had written more about that, I think this would have been a great book. Sadly, she didn't. So it isn't.

Read this if you're bored. Skip it if you've got better things to read. ( )