Happy Endings

Demon Magic, Book 1

By: Alice Winters

Narrated by: Greg Boudreaux

Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's Summary

Smart men never dabble with demons. I never claimed to be smart, but at least, I’m powerful enough to control them. When I bound Havoc to me nearly 300 years ago, I never realized how difficult he’d make my life, although “accidentally” lighting him on fire every now and then does bring a smile to my face.

Havoc is handsome, mysterious, and somehow, my closest companion, even if we don’t always get along. He’s more interested in bedding attractive women than protecting my life, which defeats the main reason a mage like me would have a demon. I even had to fight off swordsmen alone once because he was too busy betting on who’d survive. 

When 15 people are found dead with messages from a long-extinct cult, Havoc and I are forced to face our past and sort through our differences. We start to realize that there’s something more to this relationship, something that has kept us by each other’s sides for so long. Maybe, it took 300 years to finally understand my feelings for Havoc and realize that I can’t imagine being with anyone but him.

Havoc and I will do everything we can to stop the evil that is threatening the lives of the people I care about. Or destroy everything - we haven’t quite figured that out yet. 

Happy Endings is a 73K word novel that has an immensely powerful mage, a shapeshifting demon with a strong libido, a dark mage that just won’t stay dead, a spray bottle put to unusual uses, armor that is most definitely not made of dragon skin, blackmail involving an unfortunate slow-mo video, a detective being pursued by a determined minotaur, unprofessional use of illusions, and an epic walk into battle.

Revised and edited.

©2017 Alice Winters (P)2020 Alice Winters

incredible as always.

It's review time 🎧 Warning ⚠️: mm romance, fantasy, comedy, banter, sass. Narrator score🎧 ; Wow! How i love Greg Boudreaux I really do! And as always he didn't disappoint, he just did an incredible job with Havoc and Miles. I loved the voice he gave Iya it was hilarious! Level of steam🔥: well, only in alice winters land, the steamy moments were hot and funny! The banter and the games between the two 🤣🤣😍😍 i loved it soooo much! Level of anxiety and sadness0😱😢: well, it is a comedy it really is.... but, we do have some flashbacks to the past of Miles that are sad indeed. And of course we have the drama of the story. The book itself📖: I wait for Alice Winters books with bated breath, and no book if hers disappointed me. This book was sooooo good. I loved everything about it. The details, the world that was crafted so carefully and with care. Even if its a comedy, the story is smart, we have a very unclear goal that we want to get to. Havoc is the most sassy demon in the world of demons!!!! Iya is a perfect character. And apparently the keeper of the woods loved coffee and he is the most adorable creature in the whole world!!!!!!!!!

Beyond ecstatic!

I loved the book when it came out - everything about it was unique, hilarious, magical and totally brilliant! I became an Alice Winters fan immediately. The book doesn't really end on a cliffhanger per se, there is an unresolved issue but I was quite happy with the way it ended. I was happy to hear that there would be a sequel (loved it, by the way!). Then I heard rumors of audiobook and then that Greg Boudreaux would be narrating, I held my breath because 2020... When it came out, I didn't hesitate to use a credit to get it! Great story, world building accompanied by excellent narration 😍 So I wrote all of this to say one of the best credits EVER spent, period!❤❤❤

Yes yes yes yes yes

Incredible, amazing, loved every second. I burst out laughing several times which is highly unusual for me. If you are reading this review Go a head and download it now.

Loved it!

I really like this book! Great narration! Funny with a good story line and cute romance! Immediately sea h for other books by this author.

A match made in......

This was the first book I read by Alice Winters and have since devoured anything with her name on it. Miles and Havoc are a great partnership lots of laughs and snark. The secondary characters were just as good!

Miles and Havoc - who cares!

Ridiculous arguments between miles and havoc dominate the plot. Who really cares about what else is happening because it is drowned out by their trivial relationship spats.

Hysterical!

This book had me laughing out loud! The combination of the authors writing and the narrator’s portrayal of the characters is perfect. The humor and the ridiculousness carries across so well in this narration. I look forward to more books by this author.

"Mine!"

Hehehe! I love Alice Winters's books! The snark and the action abounds as Miles and Havoc take on the bad guys. I love Greg Boudreaux as well. He is an amazing narrator. I love his voices and I especially had to laugh at Iya. Amazing work and I highly recommend it. I can't wait to hear book 2 Familiar Beginnings.

Like a bubbly refreshing cider

Laughed so much while falling in love with this book, it will go to my folder with favourites directly! Love, friends and adventure narrated by Greg Bourdreaux who make all characters come to life without any necromancy but sheer skill. Thank you!

Great story. Great narration.

As usual, Winters' books are a fascinating combination of romance, adventure, and comedy. I am feeling sad for the characters one moment, and the next I want to smack them. This series is definitely worth the read and the listen because the narrator is always amazing.

can't decide if it's really awful or nice

The narration is good. The plot has great potential, but some really off-putting moments like, a terrible attack happened as a plot device to bring main characters closer, but straight after, the main character just sits there drinking tea chilling, never giving a thought to whoever tried to kill him. These moments ruined the flow for me. The characters feel very hollow and undeveloped, with very shallow emotional connection - would have been great if the emotions were developed a bit more. Intimate scenes felt empty and boring. The only thing that kept me going to the end was the banter, sarcasm and humour, I LOLd many times.

Alice winters as always writing is impeccable

read both bks and the audio of this is brilliant and Greg boudreaux as always was sensational

Enjoyable Story

A well written story with and interesting  concept.  The characters are likeable and the narration is very good.

Fantastic!

This was the first book I read by Alice Winters and I'm so glad it's finally available on audio. As you'd expect from Alice, it's hilarious and has a fantastic story line, the characters are amazing and I never wanted it to end. Greg Boudreaux did a fantastic job bringing these characters to live, definitely looking forward to the second part Worth the wait!

Great!!

This audiobook by Alice Winters was hysterically funny, well written and great storyline. I love the dynamic between Miles and his demon Havoc - so well suited 😁 Hope book 2 won’t be too long in release as can’t wait to hear what happens next!😊 Greg Boudreaux narrates excellently as usual 😁 Definitely worth the 5🌟’s

Enjoyable, quirky and fun

Miles is the strongest mage alive, his familiar is a demon named Havoc together they have to solve a mystery of deaths that is tied to their pasts. If they don't they could be next. I liked listening to this book, the narrator did a fine job of portraying the characters. Miles and Havoc are op'ed characters( overpowered) and i found that to be okay in the context of the book because its meant to be action-comedy. Sometimes i felt that the humour was not needed and that could make readers get tired of the book. The secondary characters were interesting and added more fun to the book. Just a tiny bit of forgetting who is who sometimes. Overall though i recommend the audio book its a good listen. Just make sure you have your headphones on because it does get hot and heavy in some scenes.

Hilarious!

I read this book a while ago and loved it so when I saw it was on audible o thought I would give it a go and it didn't disappoint! The story is hilarious and the narrator brings the characters to life excellently. Loved this book and can't wait for the next one