These Innocent Demons by Alex KingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wow! This was fcuked up on a level that I wasn’t expecting from a debut!
These Innocent Demons is the story of the unhinged Unholy Trinity, focusing primarily on Vane Wolfgang and Holmes Beckford.
When Holmes leaves her hometown to attend Trinity College, she finds Vane in a dark corner of campus, literally.
Groomed through childhood to cultivate his demons, Vane eventually began leaning into the darkness. When he meets Holmes, he immediately feels a kinship, sensing her darkness that lives just underneath the surface.
“Holmes had become my blind spot, gasoline to the fire inside me. She was my weakness, when I went my whole life without one. I felt nothing, still numb to pesky feelings, yet when I looked down at her, she was full of possibilities.”
This first book of the series really throws all but the kitchen sink at you. Alex did a great job of developing the characters’ back stories and balancing the heavy and dark with fiery scenes. You’ll see my note below, but it bears repeating: TID is trigger heavy and, although not pitch black, definitely on the darker end of the scale. Keep that in mind before diving into this one blind.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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