In which trek reviews The Accidental Demon Slayer

My new Kindle (Wi-Fi)arrived nearly a month ago. Since then, I have purchased some books but so far, I have downloaded a lot more free ebooks. Amazon has quite a few of the classics downloadable for free as well as eboks available for free as part of a limited time promotional offer. One such book was The Accidental Demon Slayer.

I saw the title and the picture of the cute pooch on the cover and read the synopsis and figured that since I have really enjoyed Julie Kenner's Demon Hunting Soccer Mom series (Carpe Demon),this one would probably be pretty interesting. One click later, it was on my Kindle. Sadly, Lizzie Brown doesn't deliver nearly so well as Kate Connor.

Lizzie is a pretty normal preschool teacher. Normal, that is, until her thirtieth birthday when her long-lost biker witch grandma shows up at her front door just a step ahead of the demon that suddenly explodes from her toilet.

While this was good for an action-packed beginning, and the subsequent flight for safety (on the back of a Harley with Pirate the terrier harnessed to Lizzie) was interesting, it was really hard to suspend disbelief.

Up until her grandma showed up, Lizzie thought that the only thing even slightly unusual about herself was that she was adopted and had no information about her birth mother. Within a day or two of the demon exploding out of the toilet, though, Lizzie is describing the action that unfolds with blasé references to using her "demon slayer powers". Um, what powers would they be exactly? And how do you know how to use them? Seeing as how you only just discovered what you are?

Compound these assumptions with the coven of grannies who use roadkill body parts as components of their spells, the communing with spirits in Hell from the shed behind the dive bar where the coven is hiding out, and the appearance of the shape-changing griffin, and the pack of werewolves with an infestation of black souls, and, well. Not such a good book.

If it wasn't a good read, why on earth did I finish it?

It was on the Kindle. It was free. I didn't have to worry about a late fee at the library. I read it in sips and nibbles between other books. And I really wanted to see if it ended as badly as I thought it would.

It did.

One final thought. It isn't available as a free promotional title any longer. This morning you'd have to fork over $4.79 to download it.

My advice?

Don't. Just don't.

Unless, of course, you are having a problem with insomnia this week.