Review: A decent story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2014
I was nervous starting this book.  I found I enjoyed the story but I feel it fell short on a few areas.  One is that much of the story is simply a retelling of events we've already seen.  The other is that I never felt as close to the main character(s) as I did with Chris in the authors other works.  In fact I found I'd have rather read this story from the point of view of Caeco. I think the story would have benefited from a few more weeks of character building between the start of high school and the events at the football game.The author also wrote this novel with multiple points of view. I dislike the practice in most cases as it's disruptive.  Even worse is that in this novel the other points of view are not a big part of the story.  I feel that the information relayed by the non Declan points of view could instead have easily been added to the story by a bit of monologueing by those characters when they finally interacted with Declan.  It would have held the mystery and suspense a bit longer too.Should you read it?  Well, if you loved the five Demon Accords books that preceded it then you probably should read this.  I would temper your expectations though and keep an open mind.  Even Peter Jackson needed to make King Kong to get it out of his system.