Summoned LGBTQ Paranormal Romance/Witches/Shifters/Multicultural/Interracial
NineStar Press
April 19, 2021
343
Devid Khandelwal desperately wants to experience the supernatural. After years of studying everything from crystals to tarot to spellcasting, nothing has happened that would tell him the Shadow Realm is real. And that kills Dev. As a last-ditch resort, he purchases a summoning board, an occult tool that will grant him his ultimate desires.
Cameron Habersham is Dev’s best friend. Cam loves Dev like a brother and will do anything for him, as long as he looks good doing it. So when Dev asks him to perform the summoning board’s ritual, he reluctantly agrees, but he knows nothing will come of it. Nothing ever does.
However, within a day, Dev and Cam’s lives are turned upside down as wishes begin to come true. They discover the existence of a supernatural world beyond their imagination, but peace between the species is tenuous at best.
Dev finally gets to see the Shadow Realm, meets the man of his dreams, and is inducted into the local male coven. But for all the desires that were summoned into existence, Dev soon realizes the magical community dances the line between good and evil, and Cam ends up on the wrong side of everything.
The old adage is true: Be careful what you wish for.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Devid Khandelwal is obsessed with magic and dreams of one day entering the Shadow Realm but all the books, all the magical objects have left him with no sign of magic. His last attempt is a summoning board, a board that allows you to summon your desires. He is convinced that if nothing happens this will be his last try but he believes wholeheartedly that the Shadow Realm exists and prays this board will finally bring him closer to his dream.
Dev brings along his best friend Cameron (Cam) Habersham to attempt the summoning board with him, a big mistake because Cam takes very little seriously especially Dev’s obsession with magic. Unfortunately, Dev had no way of knowing that someone was working behind the scenes to ensure Dev finds his magic since the rules state no one can do anything to help. Of course, where there is a will there’s a way.
Professor Bryron Radcliff is Dev’s Sociology teacher and a man he has crushed over for the past four years. His choice to major in Sociology was so it would ensure he would be in Professor Radcliff’s classes. What he doesn’t know is that Radcliff is the high priest of the Coven of the Night Grove and he is the one behind the summoning board. He never doubted that Dev’s desires would be about magic, he also never expected that Cam’s desires would cause major problems for him and the coven. What happens when someone desires “Make me the fairy I truly am”. Well, you will have to find out for yourself.
When the professor sends Tully to watch over Dev waiting for his magical awakening it happens at a coffee shop while they are talking. Chairs move, his spoon stirs his coffee by itself, Dev’s magic has erupted and Bryron will have his new coven member. All is well in Dev’s world, or is it. Radcliff is nothing like he presents himself to others and that isn’t a good thing. Dev will discover that his idol and the man who introduced him to the Shadow Realm is a monster.
This book has sex, sex with hairy, hairy men, magic, violence, torture, kidnapping, secrets and surprises. I felt the book was too long and dragged on sometimes but my favorite character and the one that brought a smile to my face was Cam.