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3.11 AVERAGE
3.11 AVERAGE
This book has a great first act. David Ullman, a literature professor specializing in Paradise Lost, receives an invitation to Venice for a consultation, all expenses paid. He doesn't yet know what he's going to find there, so he brings his 11 year-old daughter Tess along for the trip. They have a wonderful time, but then David has a disturbing supernatural encounter, and Tess vanishes, is possibly dead.
It's at this point the book starts to go downhill. Following an increasingly tenuous series of clues, David travels across the U.S and back in search of his daughter. How tenuous? In one instance he's given a quote from Milton that references sun and a "state." From this he guesses he's supposed to go to the "sunshine state," Florida. I started to think David was mad from grief and desperately creating a mission to give himself something to live for, but no, it's all real and David's interpretation turns out to be correct.
He runs around like this for a while, only to end up back where he started. A literal deus ex machina, or something close to it, resolves the story but not really, because it isn't satisfying in any way and comes off like the author didn't know how else to conclude it.
It's at this point the book starts to go downhill. Following an increasingly tenuous series of clues, David travels across the U.S and back in search of his daughter. How tenuous? In one instance he's given a quote from Milton that references sun and a "state." From this he guesses he's supposed to go to the "sunshine state," Florida. I started to think David was mad from grief and desperately creating a mission to give himself something to live for, but no, it's all real and David's interpretation turns out to be correct.
He runs around like this for a while, only to end up back where he started. A literal deus ex machina, or something close to it, resolves the story but not really, because it isn't satisfying in any way and comes off like the author didn't know how else to conclude it.
An enjoyable, fast paced yet creepy ride through Paradise Lost and temptation! I think I will have to read Dan Brown's Inferno next for a literary comparison!
WOW!!! Me encantó!!! Lo que al principio son coincidencias luego no lo son tanto. Y lo que antes tenía una explicación racional debe verse desde otro punto de vista.
En realidad estoy siendo generosa al darle 5 estrellas, en realidad se merece 4.5 (o 4.1). No le pondría un puntaje completo por el final tan abrupto: es como si vinieramos corriendo, con el corazón tan acelerado como el del protagonista, y de repente nos encontramos con una pared con la cual nos terminamos chocando (mientras lo leía, casi llegando al final, pensaba "tengo que terminarlo"; hasta que, de golpe y porrazo, terminó y tuve que volver a ver esa página para confirmar que era cierto).
En realidad estoy siendo generosa al darle 5 estrellas, en realidad se merece 4.5 (o 4.1). No le pondría un puntaje completo por el final tan abrupto: es como si vinieramos corriendo, con el corazón tan acelerado como el del protagonista, y de repente nos encontramos con una pared con la cual nos terminamos chocando (mientras lo leía, casi llegando al final, pensaba "tengo que terminarlo"; hasta que, de golpe y porrazo, terminó y tuve que volver a ver esa página para confirmar que era cierto).
this...this book...the way mr. pyper paints his bustling, haunting, creeping, “melancholic” story is sheer beauty, the biblical mythology and chase sewed into this book had me at the edge of my seat i was literally shook y’all
Was a really good read, but I was kind of disappointed in the ending. Not enough closure for me.
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Demonologist tells the story of David Ullman. A university professor whose lectures dwells on Satan's rebellion against God. This of course is backed by the writings of John Milton in his poem, Paradise Lost. David is a non believer. But his views are challenged when he was deceitfully lured in Venice to examine an unusual "phenomena".
I have no clue on what to expect, except of course that it may or may have some similarities with Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series...all in all I felt like the author was trying to do copy job of Dan Browns style.That said, the author does an pretty good job creating sequences that are incredibly haunting. However the book references a lot from John Milton's Paradise Lost which I was not familiar with.
All in all the book is average. The pace does quicken upon entering the third act of the book. But even the third act was met with a disappointing climax. The ending seemed rushed.
I have no clue on what to expect, except of course that it may or may have some similarities with Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series...all in all I felt like the author was trying to do copy job of Dan Browns style.That said, the author does an pretty good job creating sequences that are incredibly haunting. However the book references a lot from John Milton's Paradise Lost which I was not familiar with.
All in all the book is average. The pace does quicken upon entering the third act of the book. But even the third act was met with a disappointing climax. The ending seemed rushed.