✨Read our review of Aurora Ascher’s ‘My Funny Demon Valentine’, where she introduces you to a quartet of hilarious blood-brother demons determined to find a fresh start on Earth. This paranormal rom-com focused on Asmodaeus blends monster-fudging with insta-lust, delivering a spicy and laugh-out-loud journey of self-discovery and unexpected love. ✨
Eva: “So, what’s your number?”
Ash: “My what?”
Eva: “Your number? So I can text you and plan when we go to the club?”
Ash: “I don’t have one.”
Eva: “You don’t have one?” It was her turn to stare.
Ash: “I just escaped Hell— I mean, I’m new here. Haven’t had a chance to get a phone yet.”
Eva: “Oh.” He’d just escaped what now?
– Ash and Eva
✨Book Blurb for “My Funny Demon Valentine” by Aurora Ascher✨
Asmodeus, Prince of Hell, just wants to make music. Jazz, specifically. Unfortunately, he’s a demon. And he’s supposed to be evil.
Clearly, for Ash, a career as a musician isn’t exactly an option. Plus, he’s cursed. Sick of playing by the rules, Ash and his three brothers escape Hell in search of freedom on Earth. But it’s harder than they thought to keep their enemies off their tails . . .
Yet everything changes for Ash when he meets a beautiful violinist who can see through his curse. No matter the risk, he has to have her.
Evangeline Gregory is just your average human. She works at a jazz bar, plays gigs on weekends . . . and, apparently, hallucinates demons.
At least that’s what Eva tells herself when, moments after she meets the man of her dreams, she sees him shift into a 7-foot-tall monster. Not believing her own eyes, Eva decides to investigate and soon finds herself in the middle of a supernatural clusterf**k.. But Ash isn’t the only one keeping secrets, and the search for answers reveals a shocking truth that will change Eva’s life forever. Or maybe just doom it. The path to love can be complete Hell.
💌Bloggers note: This book review and summary will be unhinged with profanity, sexual content, and spoilers. Turn back now to shield your eyes from all the things if you’re not down for that! 💌
This was a part of our Valentines Day reading goals this year and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT! I inhaled this book and loved that was KU friendly. Let’s introduce the “My Funny Demon Valentine” cast first, shall we?
✨Meet the Cast of “My Funny Demon Valentine”✨
Evangeline “Eva” – FMC, Jazz musician plays the flute, piano, and violin, has a cat who hates demons, hates Ash’s driving, has a great ass
Asmodaeus “Ash” – MMC, Demoted Prince of Lust, cursed, plays piano but doesn’t think he’s a real musician, has love handle horns, hasn’t had good sex in over 3,000 years
Belial “Bel” – Fallen Angel and Escaped King of Hell, is a gourmet chef, likes to set stuff on fire during temper tantrums, makes a no sex for 6 months pact with Eva’s best friend Skye
Raum – Earl of Hell that can turn into a crow, animal whisperer, Mephs #1 gym partner, broody with a dark past, hates doing dishes
Mephistopheles “Meph” – Demon form unknown but is said to be terrifying, baby of the family, loves tats and piercings, hits quick with one liners, Jacqui’s favorite
Mishetsumephtai “Mist” – Hells best hunter, can literally turn into mist, cleans up after himself, has a mistress, wants a human pet
Jacqui – Eva’s mom, hippy artist, married and insanely in love with Dan for 27 years, has taken karate lessons, rocks dreadlocks, likes Demon cuddle piles
Dan – Eva’s dad, also an artist, overprotective of his family, studies the paranormal and occult, has access to a Grimoire, knows his way around assorted weaponry, deeply in love with Jacqui
Skye – Eva’s best friend, dates and sleeps with terrible men, has a huge crush on Bel, walks in on Eva just finishing phone sex with Ash
✨Lit Breakdown of “My Funny Demon Valentine”✨
✨Book Review of “My Funny Demon Valentine” by Aurora Ascher✨
Once upon a time, 4 blood brother Demons named Asmodaeus, Belial, Meph, and Raum escaped Hell and decided to celebrate their newfound freedom by getting shit-faced and fucking anything with legs. Except for Ash – no one wants to fuck him at all. He’s been cursed for the past 3,000 years by Raphael, an Angel who punished him for stealing a young virgins innocence and then killing an entire village when they came for him with pitchforks for stealing her virtue. Side effects of Ash’s curse include:
- Can’t feel pain
- Loss of sense of smell
- Loss of sense of taste
- Loss of color vision, can only see the world in black and white
- Is relatively invisible for physical attraction
Obviously, that last one lost him the ability to be a Prince of Lust (tough break man). That night at the club while he’s genuinely enjoying the gorgeous violinist on stage, Eva, he realizes that she SEES him, the REAL him, and is genuinely interested and undeniably attracted. Poor Ash doesn’t know what to do with himself. While trying to have a make-out session of a lifetime, a deranged Gargoyle attacks the club with a public shooting to injure the brothers and bring them back to Hell. That was completely unexpected and a full-blown WTF moment. Ash saves Eva and safely deposits her outside, but she’s so worried she goes back in to try to save him and that’s when she sees it – A crazy tall man with red skin, claws, black orbs for eyes, bat-like wings, and long curled horns. Just in case that’s hard to picture, Google says it looks a little something like this:
Asmodeus I (DnD) by EnergyJones, www.deviantart.com/energyjones/art
Eva thinks she’s hallucinating and goes on a mission to interrogate Ash the next time she sees him but gets dickmatized with the sex marathon that ends up happening instead. And it is HAWWTTTTTT. Here’s a more PG snippet so we don’t get flagged by the interwebs.
– Ash and Eva, My Funny Demon Valentine, Chapter 6
We, the dear readers, are fortunately graced with more steamy spicy scenes. We also discover whenever Ash plays the piano, his curse seems to temporarily lift. And now that women and men can notice him again, they throw themselves at him at any chance.
-Ash, My Funny Demon Valentine, Chapter 13
SWOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN. Eva still wants the answers from Ash, but when she talks to him about the night of the club shooting, he agrees she must have hallucinated what happened and perhaps she has some other supernatural forces in her family. Hello gaslighting. But we do understand where Ash is coming from to an extent. He wants to protect her.
When we aren’t focused on Ash and Eva, we are focused on the four brothers I am henceforth referring to as the D-Squad. I’ll take name suggestions in the comments because, yeah, I agree, it’s not the best.
Not every female author can write a great monologue between men but Aurora Ascher SLAPS. Their internal banter is fun, snarky, and purely male.
Back to our demonic duo. During one of the sexcapades of Ash and Eva, they are thwarted by Mist, who has been sent to track down all four demons as the gargoyles just aren’t cutting it. Ash transforms into his demon form to protect Eva, she freaks the fuck out that holy shit he’s a DEMON and then they get into a huge fight on the car ride over to the dingy rundown apartment the guys have been living in, with walls richly decorated in blood dipped protective sigils. Eva reacts as greatly to this as one would expect.
-Eva, My Funny Demon Valentine, Chapter 15
In an effort for everybody to escape, Eva puts her drama with Ash to the side and they all decide on taking a Hell gate to safety and Bel convinces Eva’s mom to draw the sigil on the other side so they can escape. Eva also has to drink Ash’s blood to travel safely and confirms to the rest of us Vampire simps that it is, in fact, absolutely disgusting – shame. Damon from Vampire Diaries always looked like a hell of a snack. Eva and the guys show up and instantly charm Jacqui, especially Meph. I love Meph. I always fall for the funny guys. Since Jacqui isn’t thrilled with the idea of her daughter dating a Demon, Meph tries to help in his Mephy like way.
-Meph, Ash, and Raum, My Funny Demon Valentine, Chapter 21
Simultaneously we discover that Eva’s dad who has desperately been trying to get ahold of her, has gone to her apartment to save her, and conveniently traps Mist because he’s a FREAKING FALLEN ANGEL (we learn later the appropriate term specific to him is called a Grigori). Then Dan discovers that his daughter and D-Squad are actually at his house, loses his mind, shows up, and ruins EVERYTHING. Thanks asshole. When he threw the knife at poor Meph who was trying to keep the peace and wave the white flag I RAGED – because while I understand feeling like you need to protect your family YOU WERE NOT LISTENING TO THEM but also MEPHHH!
And lastly, we realize with all of our new information that Eva does not just possess “The Sight”, but that she is the species of Nephilim – half Angel and half human – which means she will now, unfortunately, be hunted for the rest of her life. Luckily her blood will keep the brothers invisible so they can help protect her.
Poor Jacqui. In a single day she hosts four demons in her home, discovers she has a magical book her husband shouldn’t possess, watches her new friends get stabbed, learns her daughter is a Nephilim, and that the foundation of her marriage wasn’t honest. She is such a great mom, wife, and genuinely good human so it sucks to watch her go through that. BUT HOLD THE PHONE. We also know that when Jacqui meets Ash, she can also SEE him. Is she human after all?
We end with Dan leaving to give Jacqui some time, Meph not dying, and Ash finally admitting his feelings to Eva because he is starting to understand what they are. For him it’s difficult to comprehend that he has them in the first place. Honestly watching him go through these throughout the book was so entertaining. That Ash. We love him. Especially when he says things like:
-Ash, My Funny Demon Valentine, Chapter 23
Then the four of them return to Eva’s apartment only to find Mist has been living there instead of hunting them while they have been gone. He has also decided that he wants to try this new lifestyle out and that he too “wants a human pet”. I died☠️. Mist is the MMC of next book in the series, “My Demon Hunter” by Aurora Ascher.
✨Side Quest POV’s in “My Funny Demon Valentine” by Aurora Ascher✨
Up above you read that in this book we’re getting multiple POV’s and let me tell you Lit Lovers, you are SO going be here for Belial. Your lady, or man bits, will get all tingly and want MORE. The only Demon King strong enough to fight off Lucifer? Check. Gourmet chef? Check. Would burn heaven and earth, literally, for the people he cares for? FREAKING CHECK. We discover he made a deal with a succubus called Naiamah, and she owes him 1,000 favors and he’s down to his last 100. In an effort to continue keeping his three brothers safe, he summons her for information, and she convinces him to instead sleep with her. This is where we get to the sexual manipulation of the story, and we can’t help but feel for Bel.
-Bel and Naiamah, My Funny Demon Valentine, Chapter 11
On top of Bel, we also get Jacqui, Dan, and Mist, who I found as the most interesting (second to Bel). He admits that a Duke of Hell named Eligos was murdered for escaping- but plot twist – Mist chose not to kill and instead let him live with his human. We see him struggle internally with trying to understand why the other Demons also want to live with humans and I couldn’t help but think “DAWWW. Poor lonely Demon”. The build-up to his backstory is real and I’m intrigued to find out what makes him feel so desolate. This is also the second time the Eligos has been mentioned so we’re making a mental note of that.
-Mist, “My Funny Demon Valentine”, Chapter 19
And, lastly, if you’re thinking “How many different species are we going to meet in this series and how the hell are we going to keep all the info and world-building straight?” Don’t worry Lit Lovers – we’ve got your Lit Field Guide here!
✨Book Rating for “My Funny Demon Valentine” by Aurora Ascher✨
All things considered, we have rated this book 4.25 stars and 2.5 spicy hearts. My emojis don’t let me type that so instead you’ll get:
Official Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spicy Scale:❤️🔥❤️🔥
Would I re-read this book again? YES. Would I recommend it for a sweet and spicy paranormal rom-com for Valentines Day? YES. Does that mean it will work for you? I think that depends on if you are you into monsterfudging because Eva absolutely gets down and dirty by Ash in his Demon form. If you give it a try, or have already read this book, leave us a comment below and tell us what you think! Until next time Lit Lovers – Abby 💌
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