“Funny, cheeky, sexy and ridiculous…”
I stumbled across this book during a browse through the free section
but in truth I would not have minded paying for it. Unlike most
freebies, this is not a novella but a full size novel with enough room
for character development, plot twists and lots of humour.
Lizzie Brown is an ordinary modern woman, fresh into her thirties,
teaching at a primary school. Her well-to-do life is turned into a
bizarre adventure when her long lost grandmother pulls up on a
motorcycle and tells her she is destined to save the world from a
powerful demon. Guided by her grandmother’s coven of biker witches,
protected by a shape-shifting griffin and supported by her talking Jack
Russel, Lizzie must learn to use her formidable powers to overcome the
forces of darkness.
Although the romantic side of the story may be directed more at a
female audience there are enough action scenes, plot turns and funny
jokes to entertain any reader. I’d recommend this if you enjoyed shows
like Buffy or Charmed but even if you didn’t there is enough to keep
most horror-fantasy fans going.
While the word use is very colloquial and sometimes just a little
clumsy it is fairly deliberate and generally suits the story. Some
parts of the character dialogue and development seemed a bit rushed too
but not to a point that ruins the whole book. On the whole it seems
that Fox was writing the kind of story she’d like to read rather than
fill a genre market-gap or follow a formula.
The Accidental Demon Slayer certainly does not hold back too much on
gore, language or indeed sex. For this reason, despite its somewhat
jovial look at the supernatural I would say that only adult readers
should buy this book.
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