A review by bookdragonheart
The Demon Kiss by Juliana Haygert

4.0

Audiobook review: 3.75 stars. I think there’s a lot of potential in this story. The shift into the academy world happens very quickly, and the love interest/romance is almost a secondary storyline, but the overall story is interesting. During a dare to go into a haunted house for money, Erin is quickly thrust into a world of demons and demon hunters, learning that her aunt was a demon hunter, and it looks like she is too. Of course, there is much more to her story, and we are slowly fed the bits and pieces, the world building being a little choppy and sparse at times. Rey is a half-demon, masquerading as a demon hunter, but the head of the academy knows this - it’s a bit of a strange situation, one that I feel like would have to be made clearer in later books, because it’s never quite clear why he is accepting of the situation, but that can be overlooked for now. There is some pretty significant and obvious foreshadowing early on in the book that comes to fruition at the end, so when it’s revealed, it’s not a shock or surprise at all, but it’s a decent set up for the next book.

The female narrator is a bit hard in her delivery - choppy and staccato, seems to be trying a bit too hard to annunciate everything that the emotion is taken down to a very low level. It wasn’t enough to completely take away from the story, but it was distracting at times. The male narrator is much better, and does a good job, providing an acceptable voice to Rey.