Much like the first book, this sequel was an atmospheric read and did a nice job with setting up a creepy and mysterious tone for the plot. Demons picks up after the events of Souls and finds Jack battling a new foe who seeks to acquire a magical painting in Jack’s possession for evil gains. The Book of Demons is the conclusion to The Book of Souls novel about Jack Kelly, an adult who wakes up as his thirteen-year-old self after a terrible accident and discovers that he possesses supernatural abilities. Thank you to the author and my partners at Books Forward for a gifted arc of this novel in exchange for my honest thoughts. But as the stakes rise along with the body count, their epic battle for possession of the painting may cost Jack everything and everyone he loves. Philips from harnessing it.Īlong with two unexpected allies-a non-verbal autistic child and the spirit of a dead nun-Jack battles to keep the painting away from Mr. But someone else finds it first: Jack, a teenage mystic who understands the painting’s tremendous power and would do anything to keep Mr. Philips discovers a powerful, cursed painting whose magic he can use for personal gain, he will stop at nothing to acquire it…including murder.īefore he can get his hands on it, the painting goes missing and its artist is found dead. Philips, who inhabits both the world of the living and the world of the dead. His nemesis is the shapeshifting necromancer, Mr. The Book of Demons, the much-anticipated sequel to The Book of Souls, finds Jack Kelly in the fight of his life. Jack’s development throughout is an adventurous, if spooky, coming of age story that will thrill and at times scare readers of classic urban fantasy and YA series. At times an intriguing mystery, at others a chilling thriller, The Book of Demons offers a sensational stroll through the hustle and bustle of an inventively paranormal version of 80s New York City. Ghost-touched teen Jack Kelly returns in this polished urban fantasy/horror sequel to Moore’s The Book of Souls.
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