Review: The Demon Calunmius: Book One of the Repentant Demon
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 1, 2012
This book starts off with a great idea: a ancient demon comes to the realization that he is weary of trying to influence people to turn away from God and instead go to hell. He watches a 'pure' young woman who is kind and will not sin and begins to admire her. He also has met people like her before and saw them forgive atrocities done to them. He begins to want forgiveness from God. The story gets really interesting in Iraq and the scenes between Doug, one of the main characters, and the Iraqi family he loves are very inspiring. Abby, the female character is well written. Her love for history is well detailed and her love of discovery takes you with her. Sounds good right? This great start to a great idea gets TOTALLY DERAILED by the author's hidden agenda. As a Christian it really bothered me (I also read the 2nd book and it gets even worse). Samantha Johns, the author, first sickens you with an overly discriptive rape of a young girl from the rapist's point of view and the 'pleasure' of raping and stabbng her while he rapes her is written like porn for rapists. Then she kills off the main character, Doug,  when a woman in the group bites off his penis (in GRAPHIC DETAIL) after she "forces" him to have an orgasm and slits his throat with her sharp nails. You'll need a barf bag after this point. The story falls apart after this. The demon is determined to contact Abby while she is grieving the death of Doug, to pray for him and ask God to forgive him. This character just believes him without any build up of why she would do that and prays for him. Slam-bam, an angel appears to him and turns him into a human that looks just like Superman, a goofy turn to a rather serious book. Don't bother with the second book, which I made the mistake of reading. I still feel a bit nauseous. The author's agenda becomes abundantly clear: she uses this now daffy story of the demon, now super-handsome and oh-so-buff Cal, and Abby, and the people who instantly believe them to promote her ideas of EXTREME PARANOIA against the government and pure evil EVERYWHERE. God is not at all celebrated here. Oh, there's one snarky angel. And there's lots of explicit un-married sex because this is now a romance novel too (gag). Abby begins to sin big time (but God understands) with all kinds of identity theft for Cal, and so does the cop and priest who assist them (completely destroying the premise of sin in her first book). She also presents a highly legalistic view of Salvation that you only have to "act good" to get into heaven (The Bible explicitly says that doesn't work), and that you better watch those demons because EVEN IF YOU'RE SAVED GOD CAN'T PROTECT YOU. By the way, I detest the philosophy that presents evil or devils as being stronger than God or that they have more influence than God, so you better be very afraid every waking moment, ugh!!! The second book details the plans of shady Arab students putting together a massive attack on 33 nuclear power plants on the East coast that the main characters, the government and the angels and God ALL know about, but who cares, it's gonna happen anyway, but at least now pregnant Abby (finally married to Cal) can fly safely off to the West Coast. The snarky angel tells Cal he can be an angel of God again, or be instantly transported with Abby and the 'baby' to Heaven to not endure the destruction, or stay on Earth with the rest of us rotten humans to suffer an apocalypse and the complete destruction of the United States and then the world. Cal chooses to fight on Earth AFTER the fall of humanity, while safely on the West coast so he and Abby don't die with millions and millions of people in the attacks on the nuclear power plants. The third book is presumably about Cal and Abby going to war against evil. This is a sexually, politically, spiritually deranged book series. I think Samantha Johns should get some serious therapy and sit down and really read the Bible.