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After finishing Demon Angel I was very surprised. I hadn't expected something like that from a debut novel in the paranormal romance genre, but Brook kicked ass. Considering that this story is spanning over 800 years it shouldn't have surprised me that the book feels like a whole lifespan, but it did. The hero and heroine were so unique! So much has happened to them, they did so many things – together, seperately, to eachother, to others, with others – and these things left a mark. They have some epic moments and while in other novels the hero and heroine fall in love but as a reader you don't get at all what connects them or why they feel the way they feel, Demon Angel made it absolutely clear. Lilith and Hugh's relationship can't be explained with simply nouns like friendship or love, because it's more. After 800 years, after death and sacrifices it's more than that. They both saw the best and worst in others, they're companions, fighting for different sides and they simply know eachother so well.. It's not just the delusional love you get to read about in most of the pnr novels. Not in the least. Hugh and Lilith see eachother, their flaws, their imperfections, their good and bad sides, their best and worst and while I hate the cover and title and didn't love the whole novel, this made Demon Angel one of the reads I don't want to forget anytime soon!Another example for the uniqueness:Lilith says in one scene that because they both are so old and because they are who they are they can't be measured by normal, human standards. I usually hate stuff like that. If for example a shapeshifter is uber-possessive and they say: "Well, he is a dog.. It's his nature" I just want to bitchslap the heroine into sense. But in this novel it made sense, it felt right and having read some of the stuff that they've gone through it didn't bother me in the least, where it usually doesn't just bother me but can even keep me from finishing a novel. Hugh was.. cute. He was funny, especially in the beginning, when he was just a young boy and confronted with Lilith's boldness. Also later. He's shy but.. he isn't. He's honest and wouldn't shy away from saying something just because it could embarrass him. It's a unique trait.But it's hard to rate the novel by any standards. I can't give it more than 3.5 stars, because the romance wasn't that good in itself. It was more what you carry away from the book that makes Demon Angel better than the average. The writing style,t he story of them as two human (or non-human) beings and the love. Not the fucking or lust or passion, the love.Sometimes the pacing or atmosphere felt a little off, for example the one time where Lilith said she hadn't seen Hugh laugh in a long time. I'm happy it didn't take more pages, but it came too abruptly.There was much happening in the story and while the plot wasn't too thick, the sheer amount of things taking place were something I hadn't expected. That isn't to say Brook overnarrated anything. She didn't. The things she's written were important, they made the story what it is and created the uniqueness I was talking about earlier. It needed to be said and I suppose everything else would have let me to complaining about her skipping.. (skating? Geez, English, why you no like me?) over the background XD