This is my favorite book by Juliette Cross. It was much better than I thought it would be. I love angels and demons stories. Anya was an angel on a mission to find the archangel Uriel. She couldn't do it alone. She was paired with an unlikely ally, the demon Dommiel. They were very different but worked well together. Opposites attract and all that.

Anya was pretty straightforward. She was a super goody two shoes even for an angel. However she was a warrior. It does seem rather contradictory to me that killing is okay when it's for the right reasons. She did have her own personal plight to deal with wondering if she would overcome succumbing to evil.

Dommiel was complex with an interesting past. An angel who fell. A traitor to the demons. All around an anomaly. He was the perfect man: just enough bad to be enticing but overall a decent guy. I wish more of his past had been explored about his fall. Even the cause of that didn't seem horrible. Heaven is unbending on its standards of good and bad to the degree that it unfairly punishes some. From what was portrayed in this he never did anything despicable. His days of debauchery were long over. He did evolve the most as a character.

Oh my gosh, this book was so freaking good!!! Dommiel just topped my list of all time favorite male leads! He’s sharply intelligent, borderline arrogant, and has this intensely sensuous personality that just pulled me in... I mean seriously, his opening line alone told me I was in for a freaking fantastic ride and his reluctant hero status turned out to be icing on the cake!

Have you ever picked up a book and found yourself mesmerized? Darkest Heart was more than your typical battle of angels and demons, good versus evil. (Although the battles were well done and satisfied the action junkie in me.) It was an intensely sensuous love story of redemption and salvation that literally swept me off my feet! Dommiel’s dark intensity paired beautifully with Anya’s light, but they weren’t simple black and white characters. There was a deceptive complexity to their creation that captured my attention and held me captivated until the very. last. word.

I’ve yet to read the Vessel series (something I need to rectify immediately!) and had no trouble following the story. I’m doubly thrilled I have a new world to delve into!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Whew-ey Juliette Cross penned the most juicy PNR I've read in ages. Anya and Damiel have a smoldering chemistry from moment one that steams into some scorching scenes that'll keep you turning the pages for more. We've got two lonely opposites, the demon who's done all the sins (and then some) and the virgin angel, who team up to find a lost archangel. There are a lot of twists and turns in the mystery of what happened to their query that push these two characters together. The story was action packed and loaded your emotions up and shot them out. Can't even imagine what the next book in the series will be like, but I can't wait to pick it up.
Dommiel is a book boyfriend I wish I could keep. I might be convinced to share him but I just want to savor this character and never let him go.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Well who doesn’t love a bad boy ? Dommiel is everything you want in an antihero as for a start he’s a demon , he’s considered to be a traitor as he dances to his own tune and his cocky attitude belies just how jaded by life he is. So pairing him up with a sunny, do goody angel really sets the stage for sparks to fly.
Anya has a secret that could see her become the mindless creature she fears the most. Getting Dommiel to help her rescue the one angel who can save her is easy but what Anya hadn’t expected was the pull of someone she should loathe. Dommiel is snarky, corrupt and yet strangely sad but no matter what so very protective of “his”angel.
With Darkest Heart the author has captured the very essence of a romance that for hundreds of years readers have clamoured for. It’s no accident that her hero is well read and his literary bent and poetic nature tugs on the heartstrings showing that this demon is no degenerate. Dommiel isn’t typical, he is his own man and whether fierce or slyly loving his goodness is so very tangible.
So if the hero is all sorts of shades of grey where does Anya fit in? Once she fought as a warrior but at heart she’s the one who wants nothing else then to be the guardian of those lost children who need light shining on their lives. Yes she is good, yes she is a pure being but Dommiel makes her ache for things she never knew she could want. Their journey sees them getting closer and slowly but surely guards begin to drop although Dommiel knows they can never have a happy ending. Anya might prove that she’s no shrinking violet but it’s Dommiel who made me catch my breath as he became everything I want to dream of and if there’s more to come in this world I can’t wait to read it.
A fabulous paranormal romance about redemption that had me glued to the page, recommended.
This voluntary take is of a copy I requested from Netgalley and my thoughts and comments are honest and I believe fair

Dommiel is not a bashful man, "...straining as he dipped his head under the steaming water. His eyes still closed, his action-rough voice startled me from my shameful ogling. “You can join me if you like.” Dommiel is like a protective/possessive man he doesn't like when he knows others are going to ogling his woman, “***l. I’m going to lose my godda*n mind with those horny-as-eff demons watching you.” Dommiel doesn't mind voicing his wants, “that depends on the needs. I’m hoping she will have lots and lots of sexual needs. Those, I can tend to all night long.” I liked this book, I loved Dommiel the man was just sexy.