Spoilers for Game of Thrones and That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon in this review.
I wanted to like That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming, I really did. When I checked it out of the library the librarian raved about it. She told me, "This is a book that knows what it is and doesn't take itself seriously."
It started off just like the librarian said. Closely following the title, one night heroine Cinnamon, a cinnamon farmer who tries to keep her head low so she won't get chosen for a quest, gets drunk. While she is walking home she saves a demon and/or releases him from a spell that is keeping him under an evil witch's enchantment (it's not really clear exactly which). The demon, hero, er, "hero," Fallon, corrals her into a quest in which she has to journey with him over several continents to destroy four chalices (or boxes? something) in which the evil witch keeps her hearts.
In the opening chapters of the book, Fallon is about to kill an annoying human acquaintance because he is harassing Cinnamon. Cinnamon tells Fallon in no uncertain terms that killing people is not okay. He agrees to abide by that.
Until a couple of chapters later: We are now in a city where demons are enslaved. Cinnamon explains to the first person they meet that demons are intelligent beings who are under the spell of the evil witch. This person immediately feels terrible for having unwittingly enslaved people, frees her demons, and joins the quest.
Yet, after they have destroyed the chalice in that city, Fallon, who is a dragon when he's not in human form, goes all Daenerys Targaryen and burns down the city, killing countless people. Cinnamon shrugs. The residents of the city are enslavers, after all, and Fallon is so hot! The guy literally just firebombed a city full of people who did not know that they were doing wrong and, based on their sample of one, would have felt terrible if they had known, and Cinnamon shrugs.
The killing continues. When Fallon is jealous of Cinnamon's ex-boyfriend, he rips a guy (not the ex-boyfriend) in half. Fallon, again, shrugs.
I wrote a review here about a mafia romance where the heroes kill without remorse, but this book takes that to the next level. Several levels higher.
Sorry librarian, you are very nice, but I say skip this book.
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