| Title | : | The Accidental Demon Slayer (Demon Slayer, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0505527693 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780505527691 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 292 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2008 |
Of course, that's not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you've never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn't work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?
The Accidental Demon Slayer (Demon Slayer, #1) Reviews
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Newly anointed with demon-fighting powers and suddenly able to hear the thoughts of her hilarious Jack Russell terrier, a preschool teacher finds a whole new world of dark and dangerous, including a sexy shape-shifting griffin she’s not entirely sure she can trust.
Yes, I'm a dork for adding my own book to my shelf, but it was a blast to write and I'm just so glad to have had the opportunity. -
OK. Well, let's see if I can find something positive to say about this book. Ummm, hmmm, oh yeah! The dog is hilarious and the cover is kind of cute. That's it. Now I'll try to explain why I didn't like or enjoy this book.
I don't mind occasionally suspending reality. I do mind a total absence of reality, page after page after page. The entire story takes place in 3 or 4 days and in that time span, the heroine does a 180 on every character trait and behavior. Uh, huh. The sex in this 'paranormal romance' consisted of one scene that didn't even register on the heat scale. I truly couldn't follow their relationship because it was so chaotically written I was actually surprised that they even HAD sex. And the supporting cast...ok, I was born and raised in the south, so don't jump on me for this comment, BUT...would you believe a Harley-riding, skinny jeans wearing, overly made-up witch of a Grandma whose coven consists of biker grandmas who use 'roadkill' in their magic, their safehouses are an abandoned Shoney's, a roadside biker bar, and a deserted riverboat? Um, me neither. It sounds like it should be really funny...but I just found it ridiculous. Bummer. -
The Accidental Demon Slayer
(Demon Slayer #1)
by Angie Fox
This is a fun read about a gal turning 30 when her biological grandmother she never knew shows up and locks her in the bathroom. She tells her she will turn into a demon slayer in a few minutes, at the time of her birth, and demons are going to try to steal her soul and power before she learns to use it. Our gal thinks the old lady who pulled up on a Harley is crazy! But when she starts feeling weird and a creature pops into her locked bathroom, well, she begins to listen.
Its a fun story about this prim gal learning to be something she is totally opposite! Great characters with action, fantasy, humor, and romance. -
A fun start to a 30th birthday to find out that your a demon slayer from a grandmother you never met and also that your dog is such a chatterbox.
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Lizzie, a young school teacher discovers she's from a line of witches and that she's the latest "demon slayer" and has a destiny she's never known about. One minutes she's teaching little kids, the next her little doggie is talking to her and she's plopped on a Harley with a grandma she's only known for minutes and is expected to slay demons with next to no training and, of course, there's a hunky guy thrown in to save the day.
This book started out cutesy enough but devolved into a crazy, unexplained mess. Grandma is dragged into the second layer of hell and Lizzie must rescue her. Why? Don't ask me, I still can't make sense of it. And when the dog starts talking we are told by way of the dog as a way of explanation something along the lines of: "Oh he's been talking all along, Lizzie just now started listening." Sorry, not buying that lame explanation. There are many other issues such as this that make the book feel like it's mid series when in actuality it's the first in a new series. Not helping matters is the problem of Lizzie ineptness and dependence on others to bail her out, she's also boring and constantly bad mouths her adoptive parents for silly reasons that make her sound like a spoiled, ungrateful brat. It gets old fast and is so frustrating.
This is not a book for those who like things to make sense but I guess it's a decent enough of a read if you don't think too hard on any of it. I doubt I'll go out of my way to find the later books that complete the series. -
I did not really enjoy the majority of this book, I found it all a bit scattered, disjointed, unbelievable and at times even down right silly. I realize the story is a fantasy, so it is allowed to be rather farcical but there were times when I actually shook my head, put the book down and considered not continuing at all. Lizzie is not even an interesting or funny character instead I just found her very annoying.
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I love the Southern Ghost Hunter series and was excited to pick up the first book of the author's Demon Slayer series.
The Accidental Demon Slayer started off rocky for me, but I can handle not getting connected with a story right away so I pressed on. I've been at this book for nearly a month off and on and I just can't seem to make a connection. Now, not a complete disconnect. No, I loved the overall story, exciting and mysterious happenings, comedic moments, and the building tension of the story which is why I pressed forward hoping to get past my issue.
There is really only one glaring issue for me. I can't stand the heroine. The clueless stubbornness that caused fumbling and bumbling around was probably supposed to be cute and maybe I was supposed to admire her independent spirit that never seemed to listen to anybody, but I found it grating.
At 40%, I called it quits. For a gal who can read one- or many times two- books a day, taking a month and only getting to that point should tell you something. Not the book for me, apparently. I know it is a favorite of others so I'm pretty sure its just me and Urban Fantasy or Paranormal Mystery fans should check it out for themselves. -
While the book is well-enough written, I just couldn’t get past the protagonist, Lizzie. Okay, I take that back, part of what I didn’t like is that Lizzie is really all over the place with no consistency and little to pin anything so sophisticated as a personality on. And it didn’t help that the events, at least in the first quarter or so I read, were rather random as well. Things that appeared out of nowhere: a griffin, demons, pixies, oh, and a lake. No to mention a long-lost grandmother and her band of biker witches. So if quirky is your thing, then you might like this book a whole lot better than I did. Don't get me wrong, I like quirky. But I felt that was the only thing recommending it against the disjointed mess I otherwise found.
And don’t get me started on the stupid yap-dog. I couldn’t help picturing him as an over-caffeinated Chihuahua rather than the Jack Russell Terrier the book claims him to be. He’s a spastic pain in the buttocks whose speech Lizzie can now understand—meaning we now get ridiculous commentary in addition to the other nonsense.
I think my last straw came when Lizzie faked drinking the coven brew that was supposed to “bind them together” so they could protect her—all because it had chunks in that she couldn’t identify. Drama ensued, but mostly because the author contrived circumstances to ratchet it up. And that’s the key to why I just couldn’t continue—everything felt so contrived I just couldn’t get into the book. -
Ok, this is one of the few cases in which you're standing in the middle of the road, trying to decide whether to go left or right. Ladies and gentlemen, let's see our choices!
On the left, we have the too-used scenario of a girly girl, destined to be this awesome, kickass heroine who fights against all evil creatures and gets to sleep with the hottest hunk in the book. Note to self, STOP trying to compare Mac and Lizzie! Ok, I stopped - well, not really, there's honestly no comparison here, but that's a story for another time.
On the right, we have the hilariousness. We have the good research. We have... oh, screw it, we have Pirate! And Dimitri!
Choices, choices...
Crazy, I know. But it turns out that I had to turn right in the end. See, the story goes like this: Lizzie is a preschool teacher, a damn near perfectionist that plans everything in her life in complete detail - even her taking a dump, as her Grandma so... tactfully pointed out. So when her crazy ass biker granny who claims to be a witch comes and locks her in her bathroom, helps her fend off a demon, and then proceeds to tell her she's destined to be a kickass, tough demon slayer, Lizzie knows she must be going crazy, too. Add in her dog that she can suddenly hear, a sexy griffin shifter who says he's her protector, and a famous demon an ancestor of hers once sealed that wants to use her powers, and you see why this particular girl isn't exactly thrilled to be who she is...
Poor Lizzie... Can't say I blame her. Even if accepting what and who she is was necessary, all those responsibilities thrust upon her don't make it any easier. The girl can't even cuss properly, how is she supposed to fight all those things that go bump in the night?!
Still, while this type of heroine is pretty much taken from Moning's Mac, I have to admit I enjoyed Lizzie. She was hilarious in her attempts to adjust one minute, and try to escape all this the next. Since the book was from her POV, her comments and thoughts were pretty obvious all the time, and that made the narration even funnier!
The downpoint of the story - though not bad enough to lower the rating - was the witch gang. Especially Ant Eater. Ok, at some points they were hilarious, but there were some major faults in the way they treated Lizzie. Ladies, if you wish for the girl to save your asses and the world, don't threaten her or try to kick her sorry butt! One would think they would treat her as a Queen - but nooo, instead they always tried to solve problems with their fists. Damn grannies and their fucked up minds...
Now, back to the bright side. Like I said, tons of laughs. And Pirate. Ah, yes, the motormouth of a dog. Pirate was able to start talking about canned dog food, then instantly switch to where he hid Lizzie's shoes and then finish with something about the creatures after her. His bravado whenever they faced a paranormal being managed to keep my attention much more than Lizzie's cowering or bravery in each case.
And of course Dimitri! I don't know what is going on through Angie Fox's mind, but if she knows a Greek guy like him, she should introduce him to me at the very least! Because guys like him are nowhere to be found in this damn country! I wanted to rip his clothes off and lick that damn trail that showed the way to the "promised land" - no wonder Lizzie found it hard to concentrate whenever he was walking around shirtless (which was more often than not, and I still call bullshit and support the theory he was doing it on purpose). Not that I minded...
With Fox's refreshing writing voice, and with the story picking up the pace again right after it seemed to calm down at the end, one can only imagine what the second book has in store for Lizzie - and, as a result, the reader. (pretty please make that even more hot scenes with Dimitri!)
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Okay so you think this is going to be pretty weird and wacky from first glance, and you'd be right. This book is awesomely crazy and wacky I'm actually contemplating creating a bookshelf just for that. Okay, done it :)
Lizzie, the MC is a hilarious character without even trying. Her narrative and dialogue never fail to have me in fits of giggles and she becomes stronger as a person as the novel progresses so if you didn't love her before, you will by the end.
The hot male protagonist, Dimitri is just... yum. And though you may be thinking, oh god not another cliched romance, you'd be wrong there. It is very different and fun. The feelings progress a little quicker than I'd have thought natural but then again, because of everything that goes on, which brings them closer together, it's not really that fast. People get a little sentimental when the possible End Of The World card is about to be played.
The characters are brilliant thoughout and very original. Ant Eater, Frieda and Grandma are hilarious in their own way. I mean they're geriatric biker witches for goodness sake. Come ON! How cool is that?
Pirate, Lizzie's dog who she begins to hear when her powers are unlocked is the cutest, funniest little thing I've ever read. Angie Fox manages to really get inside the head of a dog and captures what we would imagine a dog to be saying beautifully. You never forget he's a dog which is not easy to do. I've read books with talking animals before but she knocks it out of the park effortlessly.
My main criticism is there is more than enough grammar mistakes to be noticed. In even a well edited novel I would expect at least two or three minor errors. This book had at a guess, about ten, which is nothing really but I did notice it even when I was so happily absorbed in the novel. I get what it is like as an indie author, a lot of us tend to do most of the editing ourselves so I'm also anxious if my novel has the same amount of errors, but like this book was so good that minor detail didn't affect my enjoyment of it, I hope my book will do the same for my readers. She's such a great writer and has a flavour and style that cannot be forged.
I'm so looking forward to reading the next in the series.
So to sum up...
Pros:
* hilarious one liners
* creative, lovable characters
* well balanced plot line
* originality
* saucy romance
* mythical creatures galore
* great description that's easy to imagine
* did I say hilarious one liners? You can see some of the ones I picked in my status updates for the novel.
Cons:
* slightly fast-paced romance
* minor grammar errors
* don't have the next books yet! Aghhhh!
This novel is actually getting a 4 3/4 stars out of 5. I wanted to give it 5 (though it looks like I have) but there was something that didn't quite get it there. I loved it though. I would read it again. Just for shits and giggles.
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2.5
Meh. I've seen it done before and done better. Mechanically the writing was fine, as was the editing but the story itself and the plotting...disastrous. It's a longish book. There should have been ample time to develop characters, a world and relationships However, Ms. Fox appears to have not bothered.
If this book was a cake, the eggs would still be in the shells (maybe even still in the container), the flour in its bag, the butter in the dish, the milk in the jug, etc, all tossed in a bowl to sit next to each other. All the ingredients are there (a hunky love interest, an unavoidable destiny, an evil antagonist, a spunky side-kick, etc), but not mixed, measured or cooked.
There is no depth to any of the characters and some, most notably Dimitri, are wildly inconsistent, as is the plot. Time is indeterminate. The whole book takes place in 2 or 3 days (not sure which), but characters talk about things happening days ago that appear to have happened hours earlier, at most. And at one point someone goes on what must have been an extended adventure in the time it takes Dimitri and Lizzie to sit up and say, 'hi.'
A shirt is ripped open a page after it was slowly unbuttoned. Dimitri admits to a lie that couldn't have held water with the rest of the knowledgeable coven. Plus, he talks like he just showed up but is also supposed to have been hanging out with the witches and werewolves for a while. The antagonist, who has been killing and absorbing the power of all the witches in America for a hundred plus years (so, you know strong and skilled), is somehow easily defeated by a slayer with two days of "training." Honestly, how believable is that? I could go on, but you get the point, I imagine.
The book's one real redeeming quality is the humour, but even it's so over the top and ridiculous it can't carry the load. No doubt, this will appeal to some. I'm just not one of those people. Too bad too, I spent forever deciding to read it.
Edit: Why the hell is she holding a sword on the cover? She uses a "switch star" (think Xena's....round thing...with points). Not once does she use a sword. What's more, the ONE TIME anyone does, it's a katana. -
Woman finds out that the supernatural exists and that she is an especially strong and gifted demon hunter, when her Harley-driving granny shows up to save her from evil. Demons chase them, they survive and meet tall, dark and handsome. Who is mysterious and a great kisser. And not entirely human. Potential love-interest. There is also a talking Jack Russel terrier, who doesn't seem to serve any purpose. Maybe comic relief, but not.
They escape to some bar, meet all the other biker witches, drink lots of alcohol, have a magic ceremony, have some not-quite-road-kill food, and 30% of the book are over without much happening, despite all the action.
Characters are supposed to be weird and quirky, I guess. The various witches were confusing, as they all come across alike. Not a lot of world building, no explanations about the main character and her powers. I felt like watching the Halloween episode of Golden Girls.
Bored and glad that I got this for free from Amazon. DNF at 32%
I was going to have a go at the seventh book of this series, as I received it as a free copy from NetGalley, but I guess I won't. -
While I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I found myself not itching to pick it up to read it. The storyline is great...organized, accountable, boring Lizzie finds out she is a slayer of demons from her Harley riding grandmother after she unexpectedly shows up at the same time that a menacing demon arises from Lizzie's toilet (that's what I said...toilet). Then Grandma proceeds to take Lizzie on the ride of her life with the other "biker witches" and one sexy griffin and, we can't forget, Lizzie's talking Jack Russell terrier, Pirate. While there is very little, if any, cursing in the story there is a hot scene between the hero/heroine that is not for the teens that might pick up this book. I don't really think there was anything wrong with the storyline that turned me off. I think the book just didn't appeal to me at the time. Still, I would recommend the book to others. As I said before, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Proof positive of that statement is that I'm currently reading the follow up book, The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers.
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I was lucky enough to win an ARC of this book by ANGIE FOX, and am I ever happy that I did! I believe that this is a debut novel from this author, and she comes into the paranormal romance writing arena with a bang.
This story is so chock full of wonderful, quirky, funny, sexy and scary characters that come to life and the wacky roller-coaster ride goes from start to finish. I LOVED it and hope that there will be more books about Lizzie, Dimitri, and Pirate along with all the other lively characters Ms. Fox has created.
I also have to mention that it was really great to have a 30 year old protagonist for a change, instead of a twnty-something year old. This book is like Bridget Jones mixed in to Buffy The vampire Slayer. Great, great paranormal fun as well as romance, some butt-kicking tension and danger. -
I struggled to rate this one. There was part of the story I enjoyed especially the Dimitri character but there was a lot that got on my nerves - some of the expressions, names of characters, how I had to keep going back in the story because I thought I had missed pages out - the narrative didn't flow very well. Also the final "battle", too quickly and easily wrapped up. On the plus side I enjoyed some of the humour and I did have the odd chuckle!
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I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this book, initially I thought it was a YA book and was about to pawn it off to my daughter, and then the sex seen was so intense I quickly told my daughter she wasn't able to read it!
I can't wait for the rest of the books to come out in audible, though I might just read them on my kindle too. They are hilarious and serious at the same time. -
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What is the book about?
Lizzie Brown is just about to turn thirty when her biological Grandmother shows up on her hog warning her of a change she's about to go through. Following Grandma's arrival, a demon erupts out of her toilet and Lizzie somehow manages to blast the demon into pieces.
Grandma throws her and her Jack Russel, Pirate on the back of the hog. Lizzie has no idea what is in store for her but she does know she's not cut out for this. She is a preschool teacher, incapable of fitting in with these granny bikers who play, and make concoctions out of roadkill. Gross.
She is thrown into the witch world without any warning and is having difficulty following orders, staying on the Red Skulls good side, and keeping her pants on around sexy men.
What did I think of the book?
Grandmas riding around on hogs, wearing roadkill skins, thongs, and leather pants is just a hilarious image. Pirate the talking Jack Russel who is Lizzie's best friend. The fact that Lizzie is a preschool teacher with no sex life is suddenly thrown into the Red Skulls who are the complete opposite of everything she knows. It's a great story that shows just what a crazy road it is to become a demon slayer. -
Okay, I'm sorry. I should have known I suppose but I thought I'd try it. It's a PNR (ParaNormal Romance). No problem there if that's what you're looking for. I'm not really a fan of PNR. I just couldn't get past the hot bodyguard dragging her against himself...his chest whatever. About the third time I gave up and returned the book to Audible.
I know a lot like these and they do have a bit of humor (the talking dog especially). So, not for me but still I'm sure some will like it. -
I have to agree that this book was sillier than watching paint dry on a long hot summer day. I skipped a bunch of pages while Lizzie and her protector decide whether or not to have sex. :::sigh::: Do I want to read the next book? ::shrug:: Time to go and watch that paint drying I guess!
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1.5 stars
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Lizzie's adoptive parents were decent enough but never very loving, so she's thrilled when her biological grandmother contacts her out of the blue and wants to meet. Her dreams of warm hugs are ruined when her grandmother locks her in her own bathroom, just in time for a demon to appear and try to kill her. Once that's been dealt with, her grandmother explains that she's a witch and Lizzie is a demon slayer, and they have to get moving before more demons arrive. Lizzie is a preschool teacher who carefully plans everything, so this is very much outside her comfort zone, but she eventually grabs her dog Pirate (who can now talk) and reluctantly gets on her grandmother's motorcycle.
Lizzie's grandmother takes her to the Red Skulls coven, where she's supposed to gain the coven's protection and begin learning to use her powers. These plans are complicated by imps, more demons, a sexy shape-shifting griffin named Dimitri, werewolves, and no one being willing to tell Lizzie anything about what's going on.
If I hadn't been reading this for my Booklikesopoly game, I might have DNFed it early on and added it to my offload pile. I wouldn't have missed out on much. This was an incredibly frustrating read. Pretty much the only things I liked were Lizzie's talking dog, who was a bit much at first but eventually grew on me, and maybe Lizzie, although I did think she was way too forgiving.
Lizzie barely got a chance to speak to her grandmother for the first time before she was dragged into a world of magic and supernatural creatures. With no time to get her bearings, she was taken to her grandmother's coven, where she was told nothing important and immediately made to take part in a protection spell that wasn't fully explained to her. She was rightfully worried about drinking something that might have bits of roadkill in it, and that potion turned out to be the most important part of the spell. She then blamed herself for screwing up, even though it was due to the coven not explaining anything to her, and the coven had the gall to get mad at her when they found out.
And it kept happening - everyone either lied to Lizzie, expected her to do as she was told without even a basic explanation, or deliberately withheld information from her. Most of the characters in this book sucked, and I wouldn't have blamed Lizzie for leaving them behind to deal with their problems on their own. Dimitri, Ant Eater (a member of the coven), and Lizzie's grandmother were the biggest offenders.
There was no magical system as far as I could see. If the author wanted a spell to exist, it probably did (there were giggle, dance, and transportation spells), and Lizzie eventually learned how to use these things called switch stars that were basically magical ninja stars. The ending was a mess - Lizzie and her grandmother did things more because the story called for it than because it fit anything that had previously been established about how magic and demons worked.
The "paranormal romance" label on the book's spine wasn't very accurate. Lizzie thought Dimitri was hot, and they eventually had sex, but there wasn't much of what I'd call romance and the story was more focused on the whole demon thing than on Lizzie and Dimitri's relationship. "Urban fantasy with romantic aspects" might be a more accurate label.
Anyway, I don't intend to read any more of this series. The dog was sweet, but the magical aspects were very weak, and Lizzie deciding to stay with people who'd spent the whole book lying to her or refusing to tell her anything she needed to know honestly made me think less of her.
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A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) -
Like John Connolly's
The Gates, The Accidental Demon Slayer made me think a lot about my preferred ratio of novelty and familiarity in straightforward escapist genre fiction. The Accidental Demon Slayer's mix is a bit too calculated for my taste -- Lizzie's struggle with her suddenly revealed identity as a chosen "slayer" and its accompanying unfamiliar powers seems to owe more than a small debt to a certain Joss Whedon-helmed franchise, while the target reader-identification demographic skews a bit older, a la Sookie Stackhouse.
The Accidental Demon Slayer delivered barely enough novelty to keep me reading through its first half, but I thought it picked up significantly when it got around to dealing with the main plot arc. Kudos are also due to Fox for writing an actual self-contained novel; I feared at one point that she was setting up a quest that would take several episodic-encounter-filled novels to resolve, but The Accidental Demons Slayer delivers a reasonable amount of closure.
I suspect that some of the authors with carefully generic, low-on-identifiable-ethnicity names churning out "paranormal romance" by the reamful will eventually be revealed to be stables of ghost writers in the "Victor Appleton" mode. But I don't think Angie Fox is one of those, primarily because The Accidental Demon Slayer had a few howlers that I wouldn't expect from a professional ghost writer (or a semi-conscious copy editor), like this description of an "industrial shower": "It didn't have a curtain, no real floor even. The water drained into a metal pipe that pushed up about an inch out of the concrete floor." I also noticed a continuity problem in the novel's obligatory sex scene. First there's, "I stared at him, unable to speak, as he slowly unfastened each white button on my blouse," followed in two pages by, "He yanked my shirt open, sending buttons flying."
But despite its flaws, there's some spark here. I have the sense that Fox was writing exactly the type of book that she really wanted to read as much as writing a book filling rigid marketability requirements. And even if it's not exactly the type of book I want to read, I liked it well enough that I'll probably read more from Fox. -
This is one of the three worst books I've ever finished. I've probably started worse books, but I was smart enough not to finish them. I cannot even explain why I finished it... probably a cross between the horror of watching a train wreck and having nothing else in the flat that I wanted to start.
The premise may have been reasonable, but honestly I couldn't tell. I'm usually pretty forgiving of weak writing; I prefer good writing, of course, but I can still enjoy something that's not as well written. This thing was a whole new level of "seriously??"
There's literally NO world building. Not just not enough, but none at all. We're barely told where we are, and we're never told when. People from the protagonist's life are given names but no history or connection to the protagonist - you just have to guess. I could see jumping into the action with little or no explanation, to make the reader feel the panic and confusion that the protagonist feels when her life is turned 180 degrees by the arrival of a grandmother she didn't know she had, and the simultaneous arrival of a demon (which she didn't know existed), and the development of her Super Powers at the exact moment of her birth 31 years ago. Yes, 31. Ms. Fox has apparently over-looked the fact that a birthday marks the end of the year of life, not its start.
Aaaand, the mistakes and confusion and lazy, sloppy writing just keep coming, folks! None of it makes sense, none of it is consistent with itself, there are too many characters, and they're pretty flat. But it was really the writing that wrecked this thing for me. Here's an example. There's a character, a female werewolf whose name I have forgotten, whom our protagonist meets for a few moments. The werewolf is rude and catty. A few scenes later, the werewolf is back and still rude. The protagonist thinks that the werewolf has gotten the last word, "as usual." As usual? How would she know?? If it had been "again," or even "once again," it would have made sense. This may seem like a minute detail over which to be fussing, but the entire fecking thing is like that. The. Entire. Thing.
I cannot imagine any force on earth making me read another of these things, even for free. I'd rather watch paint chip. -
On her 30th Birthday, Lizzie (Elizabeth Gertrude Brown) expected a hot night at a local bar with her friends and a guy she's been crushing on., what else would a preschool teacher expect..what she gets is mystical demon slaying powers, meeting her Harley riding grandmother and the ability to hear her dog talk. If that isn't bad enough, a demon shows up on her toilet and tries to kill her. Nope definitely not the night she had planned.
Pulled into a world she never new existed, Lizzie must decide who she can trust in this new and precarious world. Complicating the matter, a hot griffin has his sights on Lizzie and fuddles her every chance he gets.
The Accidental Demon Slayer is a humor filled adventure. With road kill banquets, sequenced clothing, peculiar witch rau motor cycle gang and a magical shield that turns into unusual protection garments, The Accidental Demon Slayer provided an original fun read.
I received this copy of The Accidental Demon Slayer from Season Publishing - Angie Fox in exchange for a honest review.
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Oh my God! I loved, loved, loved it!
The story is fun and hot. The main characters amazing. Some scenes hot as Hell (pun intended).
When I started reading this book I thought it was interesting but didn't think I would have liked it so much. It was very, very, very good!
I liked Lizzie, except for some of her reasonings. I loved Dimitri, except for the lies. He reminded me a little of Quinn of the Riley Jenson Guardian books by Keri Arthur (and it's a good thing, because I totally worship that guy!). He is so hot I risked instant combustion. And that scene in Motel 6. Oh my God! My blood burned in my veins! And he's also so sexy and kind of sweet with that protective instinct. Mmmm, total deliciousness!
Pirate cracked me up and he was cute although a little annoying at times.
The old ladies were weird, to say the least.
Vlad was crazy as Hell.
The werewolves were even crazier than Vlad. I liked JR though. I'd like to see more of him in the next books.
What else..?
Only that you MUST read this book, and be warned: it'll melt your insides and make your blood boil with crazy hormones! -
For those of you who know me well.... you are aware that "Charmed" wanna-be type reads.
This one was ok but leaned towards absurd (of course they all do). I guess I should say silly is what it was. Here is the story line... Lizzy was adpoted as a baby by a fairly straigh laced family. She is now a grown woman and has embarked on a career as a preschool teacher at the Happy Hands Preschool. While she hasn't had a date in awhile... she is a happy camper. it is now her 30th birthday and all Hell breaks loose. Hher biological/ Harley riding grandma shows up at her door on the evening of ther big 30th birthday party and nothing is ever the same. Turns out.... Lizzie is a Demon Slayer and not just any either.... she is THE Demon Slayer of the supernatural world. Her job is to put 5th level demon Vald away for good. Accompanied by a madcap coven of elderly witches (red skulls VS. red hats ;) she does and sees things she never dreamed of in a million years. In the process she finds out why she was put up for adoption. -
This was a cute somewhat interesting story I think it just didn't flow that well, kind of felt all over the place. It kind of reminded me of the Sookie Stackhouse books for some reason but not quite as well written and instead of vampires there are demons. Maybe because Lizzie and Sookie are both learning how to come into their own..not sure but I kept thinking about that series as I was reading.
I like Lizzie but sometimes she gets a little too syrupy sweet for my tastes. And her OCD gets on my nerves. But she is loyal and steps up when the going gets tough.
Now Dimtri the hot Greek shape shifting Griffin I definitely liked. ;) Lizzie and Dimitri's chemistry was pretty hot but it stayed PG-13 for the most part. Which was good, it built up the anticipation if they were ever going to get together.
This was Angie Fox's first novel so I'm going to cut her some slack and hope the series keeps getting better. I am looking forward to more of Lizzie's demon slaying adventures and I want to see what happens between her and the hot Griffin. -
Okay so I read this book for one of my bookclub reads for October. It was a fun and easy read. It was a bit silly in places, but what would you expect from a book titled The Accidental Demon Slayer. Despite that though, I really liked it. It was very funny and I love it when a book makes me laugh out loud and this one did. It had some romance, humor, action, etc. A little bit of everything basically. I normally don't even venture to the romance section of my happy place, ie: Barnes & Noble, but that's where this one was so it was a new experience for me. I would suggest it if you're looking for something light and fun.
