Review: A Cheerful, Breezy Lark
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
This is a cheerful and engaging, if fairly predictable, buddy/caper sort of tale. Bad boy demon and good girl angel-in-training try to locate a magical MacGuffin. It's the ultimate "meet cute" story, and there is a lot of opportunity for clever dialogue, plot complications, action, surprises, and creative demon building.It's hard to establish and maintain the right tone in books like this and the author does a nice job of keeping the plot going and the action moving in a forward direction without wearing out the characters' welcome or repeating the same jokes over and over.The humor is rarely edgy and the humor is mostly in the funny/snarky mildly sarcastic range, which is just fine for this kind of book. Bart is a lovable rogue, Samantha is the goody-goody straight woman, and the poor Templar Knight Josh is the classic extra wheel. So, you have all of the parts in place for a good old fashioned screwball comedy. That's a perfectly honorable goal, and for this book the end result is - mission accomplished.Please note that I received a free ecopy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.