Landy is back and Landy is good. He gets the story rolling quick off the mark begins to enthrall us in his new series. It's set away from Skulduggery Pleasant (Which did end quite 'unusually' remember?) and into the world of demons! (Hence the name)Possibly like many teenagers, at times Amber Lamont thinks that her parents can be monsters. To rephrase it and say it how it is in the book, her parents are monsters. And they are chasing her all over the U.S. so that they can eat her. And they are very, very, evil. (Did I say very?) And her only means of getting out of this mess is a man who very well might be a mass murderer who really is on the highway to hell. Yep, as the cover suggests, she's having a hell of a time...
As the first book in a new collection of books, it can be difficult to see just how good a series will turn out to be. We already know that Derek Landy can write a lot of books for one series, after all, he turned out 9 excellent novels for Skulduggery Pleasant plus 3 extra books to accompany the series. Will Demon Road become as good as Pleasent? Honestly, I don't know. I think that from the first book, Landy will have to add a lot more to the series to be able to take it as far as his first series. However we do know that he is a brilliant writer and has some really good, solid ideas for books.
9/10 Oh and one last thing- there may also be vampires...
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