Post by Emily on Jan 28, 2012 12:08:24 GMT -5
Book Title: The Demon Trappers Daughter
Author: Jana Oliver
Published By: Saint Martin’s Griffin
Genre: Paranormal/ YA
Recommended Age: 13+
Reviewed By: Emily Tuley / AngelsCryHavoc
Blog Reviewed For: Great Minds Think Aloud Literary Community
Rating: 5 Ravens
It’s hard to say that you fall in love with something especially me. I love to read but to get a pull to something to want to read more is not often. Sometimes when the story ends it’s good to leave it at that but with this series I have to say that is not the case. I want more. Riley and all of the characters in The Demon trapper series are spellbinding and I just can’t seem to get enough. I was given this book as a suggestion from someone I had met in a book story. The young woman was really ecstatic about it and I just thought hmm I have to check this out and I was really not disappointed. So if she is out there and reading this. Thank you for the wonderful suggestion.
Riley Blackthorne is the daughter of one of Atlanta’s most notorious and well known Demon trappers. There are hunters that just kill demons but to trap them is so much more. Riley wants nothing more than to be just like her father and to learn from him so when she’s allowed to be his apprentice and is set out to take down a demon on her own while her father and his other student are out hunting down a much stronger demon she thinks nothing of it after all she’s a Blackthorne . Little does she knows this is the start of the catalyst that will set her whole world as she knows it upside down.
With the Demon Trappers most hated elder Harper calling for her liscense after a little mess up while on her outing. Riley is taken home to relax and recoup. Her father and his other assistant are out trying to trap a couple threes. With the arrival of a level Five Demon her father is killed , leaving Riley without anyone in her family left besides a seriously hateful aunt she refuses to go to and her fathers student Beck is a worse thought even though he does nothing but want to take care of her he still has a way of getting under her skin.
Later when she’s assigned to Harper she falls for his other apprentice Simon and in the end the world further tumbles down as Riley fights for her life, her fellow trappers life and to keep her father from being raised back from the dead by Necromancers. Things go from bad to worse and its clearly up to Riley to fix it all or at least be the source to calm the world that’s going crazy around her.