Review: Okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2012
This very short story is a preview of a longer novel.  Overall, it was too slight to make much of an impression upon me.  Riley is an apprentice demon-catcher in 2018 Atlanta.  Demons (at least at the level she's working at) are like mini-cartoon characters, more of an annoyance than a threat.  The author lets us know that 2018 Atlanta is unpleasant enough that people are taking refuge in the past (annoyingly, she doesn't bother to tell us what is going on - life seems pretty normal except for the tiny demons).  The couple with the demon is supposed to be pretending that they live in the 1960s, although the shrine to Jim Morrison in their living room - complete with his death date in the 1970s - really undercuts the supposed authenticity of the scene.I would have enjoyed this a lot more if the author had presented more of the world she created.  As it is, she seems to have been afraid to reveal too much of what was going to happen in the book.