YA)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. This volume is the first in a new series, The Demonata. Details tend to be graphic and gruesome, and not for the faint of heart. Will he be next? Will Dervish? The pace is non-stop, keeping the reader turning pages at a breathtaking rate. It is clear that the Grady family suffers from a long-term curse, one that has already struck down Grubbs’s parents and sister. He is helped by his uncle Dervish, a magician, and his new best friend in the village, Bill-E. Pushed violently into a macabre world of multiple dimensions, Grubbs must struggle to deal with a new vision of reality and his own potential future trials at the hands of the demon lord. Shan, author of the successful Cirque du Freak series, introduces Grubitsch (“Call me Grubbs!”) Grady, a youngster who loses his immediate family to gruesome death at the hands of the demon Lord Loss and his two familiars, Vein and Artery. If you are expecting this to be like Cirque Du Freak you are going to be a little disappointed but if you are into horror and darker reads then this should be right up your alley.Any kid who has teased younger siblings with chants of “greasy, grimy, gopher guts” will feel right at home in this horror tale. That might sound completely confusing but I am using that as an example - Shan puts a lot of detail into his books - things that might seem rather irrelevant at the time but a few chapters later, you understand why something was said or done in a certain manner.”Demonata I: Lord Loss”“Lord Loss” is the first book in the Shan “Demonata” series and just like ”The Saga of Darren Shan”, the first book of the Cirque Du Freak series, it gives you a lot of the background that you will need when later volumes are released. One thing that drove me insane with the Cirque series was the grammar mistake of “She and me went to the store” instead of “She and I” that was cleared up somewhere around book five or six when Darren met up with his first love Debbie who was now a teacher. One of the things that I love about Shan’s writing is that it doesn’t get clouded with a lot of verbosity there is a ton of detail to his writing but you don’t have to drag out the dictionary in order to understand what he is saying. At the end of ”The Lake of Souls” there was a twenty four page teaser that really got me interested in learning more about the series. * * * * *After getting into the insanely popular ‘Cirque Du Freak” series by Darren Shan I was dead set on getting my hands on the first book in “The Demonata” series.
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