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The Love-Loss of a Demon…
The demon paused. ”Ah-ha!
That’s it! You lost your magic because you didn’t use
it! You worked so hard at hoarding it, you grew old and tired
and lost it completely! That’s why you haven’t come
after me. That’s why you’ve waited for me to come to
you. Oh, dear! Poor Evelyn!”
”Poor you,” she
replied, snapping the gun stock to her shoulder, and blew a hole
right through his chest. The whole front of his shirt exploded
in a gruesome red shower and the demon was knocked backward onto
the shadow-streaked lawn.
Except that a moment later,
he wasn’t there at all. He simply disappeared, fading away
into the ether. Then abruptly he reappeared six feet farther
to the right, unharmed, standing there looking at her, laughing
softly.
”Your aim was a little
off.” He smirked.
Feeders raced back and forth,
darting toward her with lightning-quick rushes, frantic with
hunger. She realized at once what had happened. It wasn’t
the demon she had fired at. It was an illusion he had created
to fool her.
”Good-bye, Evelyn,”
he whispered.
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Set in the town of Hopewell,
Illinois, a young girl of fourteen, Nest Freemark, following
in the footsteps of five generations, is guardian of Sinnissippi
Park. Only she can see the Feeders, evil beings that thrive off
of emotions like terror and pain. With the help of Pick, a sylvan,
and Wraith, a monstrous dog-like being that watches over her,
she patrols the park protecting the innocent.
But things are
changing . . . a tree that houses a mysterious evil is dying.
The Feeders are growing bolder. And a demon is stirring up trouble.
John Ross, a Knight of the Word, arrives in Hopewell, drawn to
the town because of his nightmares that show him a grim and dead
future because of the events unfolding in this town.
He has to
stop the demon to ensure that the future that he dreams about
every time he sleeps will not come to pass. The only question
is, will Nest trust him and help him fight the demon, because
he is unsure whether he can defeat the demon alone.
Running with the Demon
is the first book in The Word and the Void Trilogy by Terry Brooks. It is a
fictional story set our time, or the very near future.
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Unlike most books by Terry Brooks,
this story takes place in our reality. It is about two people
caught up in events that were set in motion before either of
them were born. A demon has come back to Hopewell to claim something
that he believes belongs to him. John Ross is there to stop him.
This is mostly a story of Nest and her struggle to understand
what is going in her town and park. The book does not move very
fast, but the characters are believable. Now, here is where I
get a little preachy. At the bottom of the cover of the book
are the words “A Novel of Good and Evil.”
I just want
to warn you, this is NOT a book of Horror. It is Fiction. The
“evil” in this book runs more along the line of the
Devil, rather then something in a Horror book. He is subtle in
the things he does and is very good at manipulating people. But
he is not something that I would consider really scary.
I found that that this book was
an okay read. Maybe I expected more because of the two other
series that I have read by this author. I have only ever rated
three other books a 10, and two of them are by Terry Brooks;
being The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, which
I have yet to review.
Running with the Demon
was a little slow for me and
the ending did not seem very climactic. But it is good writing
and the story is told well…it just isn’t what I wanted. I look
forward to seeing what happens next in A
Knight of the Word.
I rated this book a 6½
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