He Loves Me, He Loves Me Hot (Warner Forever) by Stephanie Rowe

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Hot is the third in a series about various Hellish minions dealing with misadventures and plots to overthrow Hell itself.

Becca Gibbs is a Rivka, and Satan’s right hand woman. She’s also the only one that can get away with not doing his orders (or following them as she sees fit) and doing all sorts of research on the side how to sever her link with Satan and still survive. She also has to guard herself from having friends and caring about other people besides Satan, ’cause he’s a jealous boss and wants all her devotion for himself.

Nick Rawlings is a Markku, a race that busted out of hell and became independent a hundred years ago. That made Satan mad and he had all the Markku killed off by his new minions, the Rivka, and that makes Nick the last of his kind.

Nick and Becca meet when he tracks her down to help him with a problem. His sister is in serious trouble and involved in a plot to kill Satan so Satan Jr. can become the leader of Hell. After trudging through various trials they save Satan as well as other secondary characters and fall in love.

First off, this book is hilarious. Some of the things that happen, Satan, Paige Darlington (Becca’s Rivka apprentice) are just so funny. Not funny ha-ha, or slapstick funny, but witty, sly, sarcastic funny. Satan is egotisical, jealous, and speaks with some sort of (to me) bad Italian accent, but it works. He actually cares about Becca, in a weird, twisted sort of way, but he is the king of Hell and he’s trying to get a woman named Iris to love him for who he is and not try to change him.

Rowe doesn’t let Satan overwhelm the story of Nick and Becca and the story is about them and realizing what independence and being alive is really like. The only issue is that the action takes place over about two or three days, but people in heightened circumstances react in different ways and Nick and Becca take out of the experience the good things and not the bad. And the chemistry and sexual tension between Nick and Becca works really well and is believable. And steamy.

After reading this I want to go get the first two books in the series Date Me, Baby, One More time and Must Love Dragons. A couple of the characters from these two books pop up in He Loves Me and I have a feeling they will be as entertaining, witty, action packed, and steamy as this one.

Grade: B+