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The second book
in
Darren Shan’s
series The
Demonata is
out: Demon
Thief, and
it seriously
dishes up some
Hellish scares!
Growing up
"different" is
never easy even
in the best of
circumstances.
But young Kernel
Fleck has more
than an unusual
name to worry
about with his
peers – he has
an unusual
psychic ability
to see "lights"
in geometric
shapes. He
thinks this is
normal, until he
says something
about it in
class, and
discovers this
sets him apart
from his peers,
who shun him.
He can move
these lights
around with his
mind and when
alone, does so
like others
would work a
jigsaw puzzle.
Until one
fateful night –
they come
together and
create a portal
to another world
– a window in
which a demon
appears!
Not
remembering what
happened after
seeing the
demonic visage,
he awakens in
his room,
holding his
little brother,
with his parents
in hysterics. He
had been gone
for days;
vanished,
disappeared,
with police
looking for him.
Kernel is unable
to answer his
parents’ or
official’s
questions about
his whereabouts
during the
disappearance.
Because of the
trauma of the
event, the
parents pack up
the family and
move to an
idyllic small
town.
But trouble
soon follows. A
witch living in
the town also
has the power to
open the same
portals made of
the astral
lights, and
unleashes a
murderous demon
onto a group of
schoolchildren.
Four demon
hunters also
come through the
portal as the
horrific
slaughter is in
progress. The
demon grabs
Kernel’s baby
brother, and
dives back into
the portal with
him!
Kernel has no
choice but to
join the demon
hunters and go
back through the
portal with them
– into
other-dimensional
worlds where
time runs
differently than
our own plane of
existence. They
hunt this demon,
Cadaver, through
world after
world, each more
nightmarish than
the previous.
Can they save
Kernel’s baby
brother? What
devilish designs
does Cadaver
have in mind for
the child? And
more
importantly, can
Kernel and his
cohorts even
survive the
frightening
dimensions they
find themselves
in?
This tome
stands
independently of
the first
installment in
the series,
Lord Loss,
but as the
reader gets
deeper into the
story, they’ll
find elements
that do indeed
tie the two
together.
Fiendishly fun.
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