Oh, the demons. The
demons! I’m not sure if this is a
coming-of-age story, mean girl story, boy-meets-girl story, teenage angst
story, or demon/angel story. I think
it’s all of them. That’s right; you get
five distinct categories of story in one book. Aren’t you lucky? ...Not really. There is just too much going on all the
time. ALL THE TIME. You get to hear the happenings as you
ping-pong between the POV of Aaron and Quinn (aka – the angst-y musician and
the girl who sees demons) as things fall apart.
Quinn is quite literally going insane as she is hunted and tormented by
evil, scaly demons who materialize at the most inconvenient times. She’s pining after her ex-boyfriend and has
started sucking at life. Aaron was in a
car wreck, oh wait, SPOILER ALERT, that killed his mom and sister. Or was he?
Dum-dum-DUM! We’ll leave it at
that. Well, he also has some nasty scars
and personal issues stacked higher than Kilimanjaro. Sounds like a real catch, no? So, can Aaron save Quinn from the demons, and,
quite possibly, herself? Don’t plan too
much on finding out. Quinn is such a
train wreck, which in all fairness is the point, that nothing ever seems to
really get resolved. The end of this book, which I suppose is meant as a
cliffhanger to the next installment, left me annoyed, but not trolling the
internet wildly searching for leaked editions of the next book. One thing that I do give the author high
props for is finding sneaky spots to include some interesting vocabulary which
can introduce readers to some words that actually may make them grab a
dictionary…or at least Google it.
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