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| Title | : | The Demon's Lexicon (The Demon's Lexicon #1) |
| Author | : | Sarah Rees Brennan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | June 2nd 2009 by Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Demons. Magic |
Sarah Rees Brennan
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.72 | 9979 Users | 1301 Reviews
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Sixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy—she screams if Nick gets near her. She’s no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. The magicians want a charm that Nick’s mother stole—and they want it badly enough to kill. Alan is Nick’s partner in demon slaying and the only person he trusts in the world. So things get very scary and very complicated when Nick begins to suspect that everything Alan has told him about their father, their mother, their past, and what they are doing is a complete lie. . . .
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| Original Title: | The Demon's Lexicon |
| ISBN: | 1416963790 (ISBN13: 9781416963790) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Demon's Lexicon #1 |
| Characters: | Nick Ryves, Alan Ryves, Mae Crawford, Jamie Crawford |
| Literary Awards: | Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2009), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2010) |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 9979 Users | 1301 ReviewsCriticize About Books The Demon's Lexicon (The Demon's Lexicon #1)
Young adult urban fantasy with teenaged brothers running from evil magicians and demons.All right, this impressed me. I classified it in the first chapter as 'YA urban fantasy with demons: species generic,' but then the protagonist just kept happening. He's fifteen and a sociopath, not to put too fine a point on it, who would see the whole world burn without a qualm as long as his brother is safe. The close POV on him in all his disfunction, and the emotional nuances he does and doesn't get, is
The Demons Lexicon tells the story of 16-year-old half-orphan Nick who is on the run from a circle of evil magicians. He lives with his older brother Alan, who practically had to raise him all by himself due to the fact that 1) their father has been killed by said evil magicians and 2) their mothers deep dislike of Nick. She resents him and makes it perfectly clear that she has absolutely no love for him. She doesnt want to see him or talk to him and so she hides out in her room basically 24/7.
I am plodding through this book because I spent money on it. The scenario facing the main characters is at first very, very similar to some others I know and love (namely Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural), only this book is set in England and there are occasionally swords.I figured, hey, cool, let's see how she does with making her book stand apart.First, let me say that there are some interesting aspects to the book. The dialogue is primarily good and I enjoy the interactions between
Well.. It took me forever to finish this book but I liked it a lot! But I never had this much trouble to keep reading something that's interesting.Nick is all kinds of awesome, his brother Alan is a little bit too emo for my taste, but I guess it's normal how protective he feels of Nick.I can't wait to see what happens between Nick and Mae ^^It's too damn hot today to come up with a decent review, so this will have to do.
I did not set out to love this book; the bar was too high. The word Demon itself, to me, is owned by Jonathan Stroud and Cassandra Clare. Even the main character, Nick, was about as grouchy about starring in the story as I was reading it. (I had half a mind to suggest to him that we both go our separate ways except for the inclination that he would probably have said it to me first) And then we found each other, Nick and I, and though we were both cross, there was the matter of good-natured Alan
Wow. This book really snuck up on me. I wasn't sure at first, because the writing seemed as though a lot had been cut out initially. I didn't think I was getting the whole picture. I honestly think that this book was not written for the YA market, but it ended up as one because of the younger aged characters. I felt as though the author might have been asked to edit some parts out to make it more 'suitable' for younger readers, and I felt that initially. As CS Lewis has expressed, I think that a
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