"Retro Demonology" (The Demon Trapper's, #0.5)
by Jana Oliver
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Reading Grade: Young
Adult (short story)
Publishing Type:
traditional
Publication Date:
December 13, 2010
Source: Kindle store
(freebie)
Age Rating: 13+
Before
Riley Blackthorne can take on Grade Five demons, she has to trap her
very first. Her debut solo trapping experience should be a breeze,
just a harmless Grade One after all. But throw in some dippy hippies
(whose peace signs and Patchouli really aren’t driving any demons
away), one
mischievous demon, and a run-in with the police, and Riley might not
be able to pull it off...
My Review
This is another of
many ebook-only prequels to a novel series meant to get you to read
the first book's preview. Well, I don't mind if that's the only
purpose of the story, but I'd like an interesting story that gets me
… well, interested in reading further material. I think this very
short story (which took up only 33 percent of my Kindle file) is
actually funny, but there isn't much conflict.
Riley Blackthorne is a
teenage demon trapper in a near-future Atlanta, Georgia that is aware
of its demon population. She is sent to the house of a client in need
of her demon trapping abilities. The demon is the most innocuous kind
and really just looks like a Brownie, in faerie terms. It pees
everywhere, curses, and she does something to make it sleepy, then
takes off with it. Then, it wakes, gets free of its confines, and
nearly causes Riley to crash her car.
The plot is rather
mundane, although a couple of characters, the retro-hippie clients,
were hilarious. Seriously channeling The Grateful Dead. That alone
kind of saves me from giving this a lesser star rating. Still, I'm
most likely going to pass on this novel series (The Demon
Trappers) because I need something more intriguing to entice me
to read it.
My score: 2.5 out
of 5 stars.
* This goes toward
my 2011 Spooktacular October Paranormal Reading Challenge!
