Review: DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2011
I think Beautiful Demons is the epitome of not judging a book by its cover. As soon as I saw the bleach-blonde bronze girl, I reduced this book to being about a superficial demon girl whose life is rife with cliches. I imagined the plastic-perfect girl with the perfect spoiled life, and no concern whatsoever for reality. Well, I was wrong. Harper, our protagonist, is not that at all. While she does have "perfect skin and blonde wavy hair", she is a character that we can empathize with. She has a certain amount of depth and vulnerability that makes her understandable and relatable.The story's premise is pretty captivating; although, somewhat typical: Girl with inexplicable powers comes to town that is seemingly odd, girl becomes hottest topic around town, girl discovers things about town and herself, girl almost dies in name of her powers and new popularity. I think we've all come to the understanding that the majority of these books are following similar structures, so I'm not too worried or picky about that. I'm more interested in how the author decorates and builds off that structure. I believe Ms. Cannon did a superb job of creating a story loaded with mystery and intrigue with snippets of romance and teenage angst.I liked that this book has no loose ends. While there are certainly some things we have to keep reading to find out -duh, it IS a series after all- the book itself is complete. At the very least, it leaves nothing underdeveloped. Everything that happens is elaborated or built upon to make sense in the overall story. You'll be left satisfied -and shocked- at the end.This book is definitely worth the $0.99. The mystery has already hooked me into buying the second book, which is a hard thing to make me do these days. So buy it! It's worth it.