Rating: 1 star
The publishing market has become glutted in recent years with paranormal romance of every make and model. It seems that everyone wants to cash in on the wild success of the genre. While there are some true gems that have come out of this landslide, the majority of them are sadly sub-par. Cara Lockwood's Every Demon Has His Day is just one example of this.
The plot centers around Constance Plyd, a restaurateur in East Texas who is in the middle of a divorce when demons invade her quiet community and murder her soon-to-be ex-husband. As if being a suspect in his murder isn't enough, Constance soon learns that she is the Chosen One. She will bear the vision that will reveal when and where Lucifer plans to impregnate reigning pop princess Dante London. Constance also has to contend with her dead ex-husband who can't move on until she solves his murder and Sheriff Nathan Garrett with whom she had a brief, very very brief, fling many years before. her only advisers are her psychic mother and a talking French bulldog named Frank.
On the surface this might seem like an interesting and, possibly, highly amusing plot. There isn't much below the surface though. The characters are rather stereotypical of the genre: the shocked-but-ready-to-assume-her-destiny Chosen One who can't get over a guy she slept with once ten years ago, the manly small-town sheriff who gave up his detective position in the big city over a case that haunts him, the wacky new-age mother who it turns out was right all along, and the lovable but clumsy husband who pulls through valiantly in the end. We even have the talking animal who provides assistance and witty repartee. Well, witty was the intention but the dialogue fails to achieve anything but mediocre.
The overall impression the reader is left with is of a story that was conceived and written in very short-order. It simply isn't worth the time it takes to read it.
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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Downtown Press (April 7, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416550526
ISBN-13: 978-1416550525