![]() ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. YA)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. This volume is the first in a new series, The Demonata. ![]() Details tend to be graphic and gruesome, and not for the faint of heart. Will he be next? Will Dervish? The pace is non-stop, keeping the reader turning pages at a breathtaking rate. It is clear that the Grady family suffers from a long-term curse, one that has already struck down Grubbs’s parents and sister. He is helped by his uncle Dervish, a magician, and his new best friend in the village, Bill-E. Pushed violently into a macabre world of multiple dimensions, Grubbs must struggle to deal with a new vision of reality and his own potential future trials at the hands of the demon lord. Shan, author of the successful Cirque du Freak series, introduces Grubitsch (“Call me Grubbs!”) Grady, a youngster who loses his immediate family to gruesome death at the hands of the demon Lord Loss and his two familiars, Vein and Artery. Any kid who has teased younger siblings with chants of “greasy, grimy, gopher guts” will feel right at home in this horror tale. ![]()
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