The Demon's Lexicon 1

Habe gerade folgende Rezension bei amazon D/GB/US eingestellt und bin nun mal gespannt, ob sie auch irgendwo veröffentlicht wird. Meine letzten drei one star reviews sind alle irgendwo in den Weiten des www verschwunden.

Hat's schon wer gelesen und stimmt zu/ist anderer Meinung?

This story has so many inconsistencies, it's hard to count them all. The biggest thing for me was though that the author states that souls fight demonic invasions, which in the end destroys the body, and then she has a demon invade a fetus without any resistance. I mean what did the unborn child's soul do? It just jumped ship? Just because the unborn child is small, doesn't mean its soul is also.

Then there's the problem of four teenagers - two of them without fighting experience - going for a whole coven of magicians in their lair. Did anyone really think that was a good idea? And when the whole thing goes pear-shaped, the elder brother saves the day by short-wiring the fuse box? I mean what kind of magicians are those who are lost without electricity and cannot even conjure up some lighting? Not very professional ones, I fear.

Of course then there's the inevitable "I'm your father"-moment which no YA novel can do without, even if it's slightly modified in this case.

I had no problem with the main character's "unlikeability" others have bemourned. In fact I did like him best because of his immensely practical approach to problems and his unsentimentality. Please never get "nice", Nick!

Sadly the other characters were cardboard cut-outs one has read in other incarnations several times already. The philantropic nerd, the baby-goth, the fashionable gay guy - hello, there you are again!

And well, Alan, I would have preferred you not setting a demon able to destroy the world free just because *you* trust him. I mean it's a bit presumptuous for a nineteen year old to decide the fate of the world apparently without giving any thought to the possibility that he could be totally wrong.

The dialogue consists mainly of "witty" oneliners quipped at each other - which is getting more and more troublesome, because every YA author seems to try this now. Yes, I get you find witticism utterly cool - sadly it's not enough to carry a story.

So, I really can't recommend to buy this book - go borrow it, if you must - because you can find the same quality of writing for free on the net.