Name: The Demonologist
Rating: 3.375 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781409120797

Andrew Pyper

During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.

The Demonologist

Professor David Ullman is an expert in demonic literature who sees his area of study as one of the imagination, until he accepts a mysterious invitation to Venice and sees his daughter threatened by a demonic entity.

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tori 👻

Wow, I didn't think I was going to finish this one.
Firstly, if you are looking for a horror story, you won't find one in here. If you are looking for something that questions what's right and what's wrong, something that will talk about demons in a thrilling way that won't necessarily scare you, this one's for you.
All in all, I do feel like this book got dragged along the way. There are a lot of pages that shouldn't have made the final cut. It felt repetitive at times and there were some pieces that weren't actually relevant enough to the story.
I did enjoy reading about Paradise Lost, though. I wasn't extremely familiar with Milton's work, but I did find it fascinating and I liked it a lot how Pyper wrote The Demonologist around it.
I didn't really like the characters all that much and I guess that's what made it a lot harder for me to endure.
I think I'm making it feel like I didn't enjoy it whatsoever, but that's not the case. There are definitely some chapters that completely had me, like the ones taking place in Venice. I did enjoy this read in some way, but the thing is that it did not impact me much and I guess I just had high expectations.

Theodore Kaplan

“Smart, thrilling, and utterly unnerving,” says Gillian Flynn, #1 bestselling author of Gone Girl, of this spellbinding tale that also has The New York Times Book Review declaring, “Bring on the devils.” A STOLEN CHILD, AN ANCIENT EVIL, A FATHER’S DESCENT, AND THE LITERARY MASTERPIECE THAT HOLDS THE KEY TO HIS DAUGHTER’S SALVATION Professor David Ullman is among the world’s leading authorities on demonic literature, specializing in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Not that David is a believer—he sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination and nothing more. So when the mysterious Thin Woman arrives at his office and invites him to travel to Venice and witness a “phenomenon,” David is hard-pressed to overcome his skepticism. But there are forces at work beyond anything David can imagine, and they will stop at nothing to ensure that the professor does not escape their grasp. Against his better judgment, David, accompanied by his beloved daughter, Tess, finds himself traveling to Venice, where an unspeakable horror awaits. Soon David is pulled into a journey that will redefine what he is willing to believe. Guided by symbols and riddles from the pages of Paradise Lost, David races to save his daughter. If he fails, he will lose Tess forever.

The Demonologist

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