Lord Loss (Book One of The Demonata): Book 1

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Scum!" she shrieks. Then she lunges at me sharply, grabs my jaw, jerks my mouth open and tries her hardest to stuff a handful of rat guts down my throat. Time Travel: It is said to be an impossible feat, even for the most powerful Magicians. However, because the Kah-Gash is a Reality Maker, it can do this when all three pieces are brought together. Grubbs seems to be the weakest in constitution of the three parts of the Kah-Gash. This is shown by his stint in a mental institution after seeing the recently murdered corpses of his family (being as it's commonly stated that he actually saw the murders of his family even though he didn't witness them being killed). He also seems to have many emotional problems. He is shown many times lying to those he is close to, often only to protect himself. He also has problems sharing his fears even with people he supposedly trusts, evidence that he is paranoid, even more so than his uncle who calls himself a "real paranoid freak". It also seems that Grubbs mistrusts his uncle more than most,in l ight of the fact that on several occasions, especially Book 5 ( Blood Beast), he suspects his uncle of being dangerous. Okay so I read this series about 5 years ago now and don’t remember a lot of it really well. I sat down to write up a few lines about it after seeing that a friend was reading it but as I did I kept remembering cool plot points/characters that I felt obligated to mention. Anyway I remember reading this series when I was about 13/14 and really liking it (all of the disembowelling helped :D). Note: This is marketed as Young Adult but… it isn’t. At least it’s not what you’d normally expect from the genre. You should really not let your kids read this if they’re under, say, 12 and probably older still. I’ve legits never read a book/series with more detailed descriptions of scenes of horrific violence and gore. This review will cover the whole series however I’ll try to keep any important plot points from later books in spoiler tags.

Loophole Abuse: In Slawter Davida Haym makes a deal with Lord Loss, that in exchange for handing over the Gradys to him, he promised that he'd allow her crew to film how his minions commit a slaughter. He didn't promise her crew would be spared, while they made the film. Hidden Depths: After spending the majority of the third book as a nuisance for Grubbs and Bill-E, Bo risks her life to save her father and brother. She doesn't make it. Hope Spot: Inverted in the sixth book. We witness what happens when a tunnel is actually opened, but time is reset to before it happens. Grubbs Grady is a normal kid who likes making trouble, pranking his older sister. You know. Up until something is just starting to be weird with his family. Everyone is tense and he realises they made up a story to remove him from home for a night for whatever reason. When he goes to find out what's wrong he finds all of them dead, brutally chopped up by demons in their home. He goes insane from the trauma and is relatively "content" in his madness until his uncle Dervish shows up, telling him he believes demons really exist. So Grubbs goes to live with him and find out everything. Grubitsch "Grubbs" Grady, the younger child of chess-obsessed parents, grows increasingly uneasy with the recent strange, nervous behavior of his parents and sister. One night, he finds the mutilated bodies of his family and encounters Lord Loss, a gruesome human-like demon who sets his two familiars, Vein and Artery, on Grubbs.And many others like Sharmilla, Billy ‘Bill-E’, Juni Swan, Meera Flame, Prae Athim, and lots and lots of demons with names like Femur and Malice. It’s the characters, really, that have stayed with me the most and have made this series worth remembering. Honestly, the series is worth reading just for the characters, bad ending and all.

I can tell there are complicated intricacies waiting in further sequels. This one kept it a little simple for effect and establishing structure. There were twists and surprises as they are slowly unveiled, but nothing too stunning. I finally figured out where the chess came into play - interesting stuff. I dug the idea of the family curse, the magic use, and the ties with the demon master Lord Loss. Is breakfast a fry-up or some cereally, yoghurty crap?" is my response, and I know the second it's out of my mouth that it's the wrong thing to say. This isn't the time for the famed Grubbs Grady brand of cutting-edge humour. Start reading this book prepared! This series contains a lot of death, violence and gore! I am not a fan of tragedy(or gore) and I avoid it like it's a plague but I did enjoy reading this series without having my spirit crushed out of me.(I haven't read the last book yet!) This is a audio book that I'm making for fun I want to have voice actors do the voices for some characters if you get a main role I would like for you to stay on for the whole series this is just a test run to see how well it goes. If you don't know the demonata book series here is a plotline for the first book which is what we are doing now.Grubitsch "Grubbs" Grady, the younger child of chess-obsessed parents, grows increasingly uneasy with the recent strange, nervous behavior of his parents and sister. One night, he finds the mutilated bodies of his family and encounters Lord Loss, a gruesome human-like demon who sets his two familiars, Vein and Artery, on Grubbs. Above the Gods: At the end of the series Grubbs, Bec and Kernal become Physical Gods, and then discover at the very end of the series that something out there is even more powerful then them.I'm a Humanitarian: Demons seem to regard everything as potential food, including each other, and humans are no exception.

There's violence and gore - from someone dead being used as a finger puppet, to beheadings, and even a bizarre story about the original owner of the house getting rid of a baby he didn't want by feeding it to his pet piranhas. It's not continuous, but it's brutal in the scenes which are meant to be horrifying. Of course these scenes hold up strong in their tensions. You never know what the author will pull out of his hat, after all.

Casting Call Club

Seriously, jokes aside, I'm frightened. They're sharing a secret, something bad, and keeping me out of it. Why? Is it to do with me? Do they know something that I don't? Like maybe... maybe... Dad's not as freaked out as Mum, but he's not happy. He tells me how disappointed he is. They've warned me so many times about the dangers of smoking, how it destroys people's lungs and gives them cancer. Also in Wolf's Island is the character Antoine Horwitzer, who is a homage to Darren Shan's close friend and fellow author, Anthony Horowitz. This series had a pretty good ending that was in keeping with the brutal tone throughout while also managing to be optimistic…Which was nice after 10 books of demonic dismemberment.

Invincible Villain: At first Lord Loss. That is until He's revealed to be one of the weakest Demon Masters. Eaten Alive: Several characters, but most notable is Bec at the end of her titular book, since it's from her point of viewMundane Utility: Early in the second book, Kernel's narration mentions that he can use the lights to improve his night vision. After Grubbs recovers, he lives with the rather eccentric Dervish in his mansion near the village of Carcery Vale. Dervish explains to Grubbs that using magic is possible as Grubbs himself used magic to flee from Lord Loss and his minions, members of an otherworldly race known as the Demonata. As Grubbs begins to settle down, he meets and befriends Bill-E Spleen, an orphan who visits Dervish often to learn magic. Too late," I snarl nastily. "I've only got eleven days to go. I'd rather see them out than kiss your..." I stop. She's holding out a plastic bag. Something white inside. "What's that?" I ask suspiciously. I adore the humour in this novel, it’s lighthearted, it doesn’t take away from the stress/pain of what the characters are going through, and it’s got the perfect balance of soft moments & hard moments. There’s a specific point at the end of the book that devastated me, but the humour really lifted things up, but didn’t take away the fact that something horrific just happened, it eases you into a sense of feeling safe, like you can breathe. And I know instantly - Gret grassed me up to Mum! She found out I was smoking and she told. The cow!