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Touch of the Demon (Kara Gillian, #5) - Diana Rowland 1.5 starsEven now, hours after I read it, and I already slept on it, I still felt VERY BITTER about this book. So forgive me, because this is not going to be a proper review. This is going to be A RANT. Plain and simple. It is also VERY SPOILERY. You've been warned.----Three words: Frustrated. Disappointed. Pissed-off.HATED IT. HATED IT. HATED IT.Those are the feelings I have for this book. I have never been this pissed off and annoyed with a PNF/UF series before. Even the ones I gave up (because I can't remember giving any of those books below 2-stars). BUT, it must be done. I can't even force myself clicking the 2-stars (my standard rating for books I dislike). Oh, book, how I hate thee? Let me count the ways:+ The combination of well-grounded police procedural and urban fantasy that I love from previous 4 books? GONE. Instead, this book is switched into high fantasy in the demon realm. Do I care about the castles, the courtyards, the sigils, the grove, etc, etc. NO! Do I care about all those demons with hard-to-pronounce names? NO! Do I care about the ryeza, the syraza, the faas, or whatever bloody level of demons they are?! FRICKING NO! I love Kara when she is among his team: Jill, Ryan, Zack, Cory... and they are nowhere to be seen, except for what, the last one chapter?!+ Kara, the level-headed female detective from the previous 4 books? GONE. So yeah, I know that Kara has the seed of being horny woman (she did have sex immediately with Rhyzkahl the first time she summoned him)... but OMG, here, instead of using her head to be in the game (you have been KIDNAPPED, WOMAN!) she uses her vagina to make her decisions. Seriously, Kara, SERIOUSLY? So Mzatal tortures her, she runs away to Rhyzkahl and have sex with him (Yep, that is what Kara is thinking, and I quote "I wanted to have sex not watch lords, Chapter 13"), then Rhyzkahl betrays her, and she goes back to Mzatal. Let's have fight because Rhyzkahl is evil. OOOh, we win!! Oh, Mzatal, you look handsome. So let's do celebration with sex. YAY! WTF!! + The slow friendship with Ryan and the possibility with that kiss in the last book? GONE. Ryan is just an after-thought here. Kara thinks, "Oh Ryan kissed me and I kissed him, he said he loved me, what did I feel about him?" ... but then OOPS, there goes that handsome demon lord. I better have sex with him, because hey, that's the only way I can get laid in this demon realm, isn't it?? F*CKERY!+ Not impressed with all the past-life-what-evers-sequence of it about Elinor too. Don't bloody care.And considering the ending here I can say that I am done with this series. DONE. Because yeah, after being kidnapped and tortured, Kara thinks it's a FANTASTIC idea to return to demon realm, to experience TRAINING for 6 months and to resign from the police force. Bye bye Ryan, Zack, Jill, Tessa, I'm off to another SEX sessions with the demon lords!!Sorry, I can't take another 5 books planned for this kind of wtf-ery. I regret that I didn't 'read' this fast enough so I can return the Kindle content back to Amazon (within 7 days) and demand a refund.Adios, Kara Gillian!! It's been a nice beginning, wonderful middle-part, and such cr*ppy ending of our relationship.PS: The only reason I can still give an extra 0.5 stars? Some of the secondary characters are still fun to read. Like Idris, the human summoner, and of course Kehlirik the popcorn-loving demon from book #2 makes an appearance. But since they're "secondary" and the whole issue I have is with the main character, they cannot save the book.