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3.11 AVERAGE
3.11 AVERAGE
I really wanted to like this book as it combines two of my favourite things, academics and the supernatural. The book was fast paced and I was able to read it in a few hours. Tess's diary was an interesting piece of the plot. Other than that the book was predictable and the ending was so disappointing. It felt abrupt and unfinished.
Holy crap! I'm on the second disk, and I'm so irked by the bad grammar. The main character is a tenured English professor, but he doesn't grasp basic grammar.
"O'Brien is better at ... that me." "I attempted to be the best guide I can."
May he be tortured by a demon with a deep love for the nominative case and parallel construction.
"O'Brien is better at ... that me." "I attempted to be the best guide I can."
May he be tortured by a demon with a deep love for the nominative case and parallel construction.
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wish I could write a review that would really do this equally frightening and entrancing novel it's due diligence, but here we go: The Demonologist is best book I've read this year, and one of the best books I've read in years. No question about it. It's is the perfect marriage between the supernatural and the literary. With his ruthlessly gripping writing, Andrew Pyper takes the reader to the teetering edge of the Abyss... Then pushes you over. The perfectly paced unfolding of the mythology, the backbone of Paradise Lost to anchor his story, the delicate and precise characterization of characters, this book has everything I could possibly wish for in a novel. This book was so thrilling and tantalizing that I wanted this book to last forever... But simultaneously couldn't help myself from devouring it. It's one of those cases where you wish this was only the start of a series, but knowing that continuing the story would only tarnish it. So, so, so good. I can't recommend it enough, especially to anybody who shares my love and fascination with monsters, demons, and ghost stories. A+, Andrew Pyper!
THE DEMONOLOGIST by Andrew Pyper
Meh. I was expecting a scary horror, but this is more of a supernatural/psychological thriller (and I use the world thriller loosely).
When authorities cannot locate the body of David Ullman’s daughter Tess, he believes she has been abducted by a minion of the Devil. Powered by his own demons, guilt and overwhelming grief, David goes on a meandering road trip up and down the eastern US and Canada following riddles and clues in hopes of saving his daughter.
While the premise of real demons being everywhere and can *be* anyone is compelling, the execution and ending left much to be desired.
Rating: 2.5/5 ⭐️
Meh. I was expecting a scary horror, but this is more of a supernatural/psychological thriller (and I use the world thriller loosely).
When authorities cannot locate the body of David Ullman’s daughter Tess, he believes she has been abducted by a minion of the Devil. Powered by his own demons, guilt and overwhelming grief, David goes on a meandering road trip up and down the eastern US and Canada following riddles and clues in hopes of saving his daughter.
While the premise of real demons being everywhere and can *be* anyone is compelling, the execution and ending left much to be desired.
Rating: 2.5/5 ⭐️
Imagine the experience you had watching National Treasure. You thought, "Well! This looks like it might be an entertaining adventure." Now, imagine that same experience with a few substitutions: instead of the Constitution of the United States, it's Paradise Lost. Instead of Nicholas Cage, it's an Ivy League professor. And instead of a fairly improbable plot that takes a single clever idea and builds it into a mildly entertaining adventure, imagine it's a worthlessly vague grasp at imitating Dan Brown that devolves into ever more pointless nonsense until they end of the book arrives and you realize that there were three individual nonplots, none of which was resolved.
There is no single part of this book that was in any way good, entertaining or even fully thought through, as far as I can tell. I have no idea who Andrew Pyper is or what he did to be forced to write this, but it is crap. Anybody who's actually read Paradise Lost (I think Pyper probably didn't) could spend years with a red pen going through this drivel, page by page, actually writing the story Pyper (or his cabal of publishers) tried to make it seem like he was going to write.
And this is me not even getting started on the idea that, if a demon is going to possess you or someone you love, it's not going to make all literary and give you the chance to get your kid back by the new moon.
I don't even want to give this one star. I want to give it negative infinity stars. I don't want to stand around thinking about whether or not this is actually, honestly, truly the worst book I have ever read. Recommended only for those who need to torture people and cannot be fussed with the Geneva convention.
There is no single part of this book that was in any way good, entertaining or even fully thought through, as far as I can tell. I have no idea who Andrew Pyper is or what he did to be forced to write this, but it is crap. Anybody who's actually read Paradise Lost (I think Pyper probably didn't) could spend years with a red pen going through this drivel, page by page, actually writing the story Pyper (or his cabal of publishers) tried to make it seem like he was going to write.
And this is me not even getting started on the idea that, if a demon is going to possess you or someone you love, it's not going to make all literary and give you the chance to get your kid back by the new moon.
I don't even want to give this one star. I want to give it negative infinity stars. I don't want to stand around thinking about whether or not this is actually, honestly, truly the worst book I have ever read. Recommended only for those who need to torture people and cannot be fussed with the Geneva convention.
