California Demon

Written by Debra Dunbar

Narrated by Aida Reluzco

In New Hell, only the monsters survive.

Eden Alvaro is a licensed Vulture, picking through the aftermath of violence in demon-plagued LA, and fencing her finds to help support her family. But when a crooked cop reports her for a salvage she didn’t take, all hell breaks loose.

Stripped of her license, Eden finds herself with a price on her head. When the mercenaries hunting her raid her home, brutalize her family and abduct one of her sisters, Eden turns to the enigmatic Bishop—a man with a reputation for violence who, for the right price, can find just about anything or anyone.

With time running out to find her sister before she’s sold into slavery, Eden is determined to get her back—even if she has to slaughter her way through a gang affiliated with the traffickers and face down one of the powerful demons in control of the city.

She’ll need every bit of her burgeoning magical powers to bring her sister back alive—and she’ll need to put herself in debt to Bishop. But when it comes to her family, no price is too high for Eden to pay.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debra Dunbar LLC
• Release date: Feb 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781662248573

Debra Dunbar

After majoring in English Literature with a concentration in Medieval and Folklore studies, Debra promptly sold out to the corporate world, occasionally dabbling in writing marketing copy and op/ed articles for a local city paper. By day, she designs compensation programs, after dark she stuffs her nose into obscure mythology, and feverishly writes her novels. A DEMON BOUND is her debut novel. Debra lives on a farm in Maryland with Sweetie, three sons, and a Noah’s ark of four legged family members. Unlike her protagonist, she drives an old PT Cruiser, couldn’t carry a tune if you duct taped it to her back, and enjoys an occasional cosmopolitan (heavy on the vodka). On a good day, she jogs and horseback rides, hopefully managing to keep the horse between herself and the ground. Her only known super power is ‘Identify Roadkill’.

Reviews for California Demon

[Caroline Foster · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I could not get into the characters. The book spends most of the time trying to establish the main character. By the end of the book , I really did not care if she lived or died. I listened to the end of the book, hoping to get to the interesting part...alas I never found it.

[carlie carson · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The book seems good, but the narration is not. The narrator puts emphasis on odd worlds in some sentences leaving me trying to figure out if that word was italicized, if that word is a foreshadowing the narrator accidentally made, if the narrator just has different speech patterns than I am used to, if I am thinking to much about what the words meaning is, then I realize that I missed a bunch of the book.
It often sounded like the narrator had never read the book before and was trying to just read it out loud on their first read through. It felt off.
So did the accent for the main character. Granted that may have just been the narrators accent, if so that’s a problem because I shouldn’t be wondering about the characters origin based upon an accent.
I had a very hard time listening to this book on tape as I either was getting annoyed with how the narrator was reading or while listening I found my mind wandering off because they were not holding my attention.
The narrator did….okay….with the voices for other characters (those who are not the main character) but again the narrators inflections seems wrong.
I recommend reading this book, not listening to it.