Title: The Demon Trapper’s Daughter
Author: Jana Oliver
Pages: 355
Release: February 1st, 2011
Synopsis:(from Goodreads) It’s the year 2018, and with human society seriously disrupted by the economic upheavals of the previous decade, Lucifer has increased the number of demons in all major cities. Atlanta is no exception. Fortunately, humans are protected by Demon Trappers, who work to keep homes and streets safe from the things that go bump in the night. Seventeen-year-old Riley, only daughter of legendary Demon Trapper Paul Blackthorne, has always dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps. When she’s not keeping up with her homework or trying to manage her growing attraction to fellow Trapper apprentice, Simon, Riley’s out saving citizens from Grade One Hellspawn. Business as usual, really, for a demon-trapping teen. When a Grade Five Geo-Fiend crashes Riley’s routine assignment at a library, jeopardizing her life and her chosen livelihood, she realizes that she’s caught in the middle of a battle between Heaven and Hell.
My Thoughts:
This book really had all the outwardly appeal to draw me
to it. The cover was pretty cool looking, the title seemed interesting enough,
and my best friend had previously recommended I read it so I figured it had to
be good.
Well, boy was I right! I gobbled up this book within
about 2 days and was eager to buy the sequel “Soul Thief” almost as quickly.
My only real qualm with this book is…Where is the
backstory? We get set up in this (slightly) futuristic world and it hints that
the economy had something to do with the downfall of society as we know it, but
there is never really any explanation and that was something I was looking
forward to but unfortunately, never got.
I must say a couple other quirks that I didn’t like but
that I don’t feel had a huge impact on my feelings of the book:
1.) It
was also a little slow, but the ending brings it together so well that I could
easily overlook the slow parts.
2.) Beck
is supposed to be country, but I found a lot of his dialogue really unrealistic
and hard to mentally digest what/how he would speak. Although that was kind of
something that I found “different” it didn’t bug me too much and a lot of the
time I didn’t get hung up on it.
Other than that, I loved the book, characters, setting,
and plot. I found Riley to be a relatable character and I enjoyed that she had
a best friend, Peter, who was not a part of the love triangle? Square? Heck…it
will just qualify as some sort of polygon. I felt like Oliver’s version of
Atlanta was easy to imagine and had some really cool locations in it. So, it
was a good book and I enjoyed it.
In Short:
Rating: 4/5
Purchase or Check Out? Purchase, for sure! It’s a book
worth having on your shelf.
Would I read it again?: Maybe.
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