Name: Dämoren
ISBN: 9781948929974

Seth Skorkowsky

"A secret society of monster hunters. A holy revolver forged to eradicate demons. A possessed man with a tragic past. A rising evil bent on destroying them all."--Back cover.

Dämoren

Sade A

Not bad, not bad at all. Blown away i was not, but i didn't want to chuck my Kindle across the room (not literally of course) while reading.
So Damoren is basically a book about people who call themselves knights/hunters who get boners (again not literally) for their weapons and also who have taken it upon themselves -such selfless humans - to rid the world of demons.
First off i think this book really pushed it with the whole i love my weapon ish. It was, as far i'm concerned a cringe fest..It was just too much.. TOO MUCH!!

Then the demons-For anyone who's conversant with monster folklore -that's a thing right?- you probably wouldn't have a problem with all the demon names the book kept throwing at you and what their powers were, but if the extent of your folklore stops at ware wolves, vampires, Djinns let's throw in succubus too, the demon names just start to blur.. Plus there's only so many times i want to check google for what the heck these creatures are..rakshasas, lamia, ifrits, wendigo, a horned frog like beast with gold skin, an oni, a pair of giant black dogs with eyes glowing like embers...you get the picture.

GUNS GUNS GUNSSSS & Damoren's shells- I think this author is a gun nut or well likes guns a whole lot. Not necessarily a bad thing really i just didn't expect so much specific gun talk. Like there was this part where they in an armory sort of and they started talking about using the reloading press, i honest to God had to YouTube what that was and see how it works -Bonus point, I learnt something new, so yay- On the other hand, did i really really need all that info. On to Damoren's shells, first off, Shout out to Michael Britt for the whole gun shell explanation thing 😁 much appreciated.
Right so apparently Damoren's (view spoiler)[bullets have to be made with some specific shell casing.. In chapter 13 Matt goes all out whack that he couldn't retrieve like 4 of them so they had to go back for them. Meanwhile in chapter one during a car chase, he holds Damoren out of the window and fires without a care in the world. (hide spoiler)] It just didn't gel for me really. It felt like the author just picked a convenient time to make him care about the shell casings just so he could conveniently work the angle in the story he was going for. Sometimes i think authors maybe think readers forget certain stuffs that happen earlier in the book.

The love thing - One word. WHY??? I don't understand why authors feel the need to pair characters up really.. but hey, if it must be done, definitely not like it was in this book.. so awkward and very insta-lovey.. yuck!! i really don't want to see insta love if it isn't smut.

Anyways i saved the best for last.. The fight scenes were awesome, like really awesome!!! it was like 


but with monsters!! so yeah i could live with the other negatives.

All in all looking forward to a much improved Book 2..hopefully with less hard ons for their weapons.

Dämoren

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