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A review by storyorc
7 Deadly Habits of the Modern Demon Summoner by K.L. Somniate
Heartfelt, imaginative, and zany, this book is someone's next favourite wild ride, just not mine. Fun action too. Very cinematic writing style.
I started skimming at the 50% mark due to the lack of narrative focus. I appreciate that the author cares enough to humanise each evil ex but all of them getting POV chapters and constant flashbacks slowed the story too much for me. I would have preferred hints about them through behaviour and dialogue (and fewer of them).
The further along the book gets, the more it feels like the author is fighting a losing battle against how much more interesting the Hayward family is. Castro especially is fucked up in a very entertaining way. The two 'main' characters were shockingly irrelevant to the climax (anti-climax?) and by the end I was dreaming of a version of this story centering the Haywards and Oaklands: Gossip Girl with demons.
My copy had a few self-publishing format quirks like overlarge tabs, a special font showing up as ?s and an inexplicable link to a Wikipedia entry but nothing that detracted from the story. I suggest less epithets next book though; "the CEO" was particularly jarring.
Pulling weapons out of tattoos is SICK tho, 5/5 stars for that.
I started skimming at the 50% mark due to the lack of narrative focus. I appreciate that the author cares enough to humanise each evil ex but all of them getting POV chapters and constant flashbacks slowed the story too much for me. I would have preferred hints about them through behaviour and dialogue (and fewer of them).
The further along the book gets, the more it feels like the author is fighting a losing battle against how much more interesting the Hayward family is. Castro especially is fucked up in a very entertaining way. The two 'main' characters were shockingly irrelevant to the climax (anti-climax?) and by the end I was dreaming of a version of this story centering the Haywards and Oaklands: Gossip Girl with demons.
My copy had a few self-publishing format quirks like overlarge tabs, a special font showing up as ?s and an inexplicable link to a Wikipedia entry but nothing that detracted from the story. I suggest less epithets next book though; "the CEO" was particularly jarring.
Pulling weapons out of tattoos is SICK tho, 5/5 stars for that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pedophilia, Violence, Kidnapping, and Racism
Moderate: Transphobia and Misogyny
The narrative does not paint these subjects in a good light.