Author; Tosca Lee
Genre: Mystery/Suspense, Christian Fiction (though not marketed as such),
Source: Paperback
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 paws
Clay had a mysterious meeting on his calendar that no one knew about. He stayed late at work only to have no one show up. One his way home he stops for some dinner when a man in the corner begins speaking with him, as if he was waiting for him. Clay believes he is a writer looking to get his book published but Lucian claims to be so much more; a demon. A demon who wants his story, or rather his memoir, published and has decided that Clay is the person to do this. Clay sprials down a demonic rabbit hole as he strives to piece together Lucian's tale. But...it seems there are some frightening similarities between Lucian's tale and Clay's own life. But he is now beyond the point of no return and has to finish things and find out how the story ends.
I have had this book on my to-read shelf for years, since 2012 in fact, so I decided to buy it and see what it was that intrigued me six years ago. The idea behind the story is an interesting one, a demon wants to write his memoirs, tell his side of the story. Then the man he's telling the story to begins to feel the story is as much his as it is the demon's. Seems interesting and compelling right? At some points it was, at other points...it fell flat, it didn't compel me to continue reading it as much as I had hopped it would. At times it felt like it dragged on and didn't go far. There wasn't any..umph so to speak to this story.
The name of the main character: Clay, seems to be a play on words, but it didn't feel like a clever one, especially as it is mentioned time and time again. Clay comes off as a man desperate to cling to anything that might define his life, or bring excitement to his life; even if it is a memoir from a demon. He continues to wallow in self-pity and it gets old rather quickly. Lucien doesn't come off as being demonic and doesn't anything outright demon like, he has moments of being "bad" but those aren't really what you would expect from a demon of his self proclaimed caliber. The story he tells doesn't go beyond things most Christians know or beyond Lucien basically stating "we hate humans, and are mad that Elohim chose them over us" over and over again.
There seemed to have been the beginnings of a subplot of agents from both realms following the two characters, but this is never fully expanded on. If it was it might have brought my rating and enjoyment of the novel up a little more than where it is at. At the end Clay has a revelation about his own life, but we don't see anything that provides evidence of him coming to this conclusion. It felt like there are so many questions opened that have no satisfactory resolutions.
I am on the fence on whether or not I would recommend this book. I may not have liked it but someone else might. Do not go into this book thinking you will read horror or thriller type novel as it is marketed as, go into it expecting to read something that is Christian Fiction at best.
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