3 stars for the Demonata. Yup. Keep on killing!*cracks knuckle*To put it in a few linesGrubbs Grady loves Reni Gossel.Dervish Grady loves Juni Swan.Nishanth Anchan loves someone else.End of story.This was not what I expected in a Demonata book. 90%- NO GORE!First half is filled with boyfriend, girlfriend thingy. Kissing (I prefer strangling) and stuff...ewww.Grubbs is considered mentally mental. A psychyatrist called Misery something tests him. Grubbs yells at him. CUT.Sleepover at Grubbs' Manison. Coolio! But Grubbs seems to be more into his friends than Bill-E. Making him feel lonely.They party. Party. Party. Drink. Drink. Drink. Play. Play. Play.Loch, Grubbs' new friend always teases Bill-E with a "Get stuffed - SUCKER!"Then kiss. Kiss. Kiss.Ooops! When our dear Grubbitch kisses Reni, he goes outta control. He makes a bottle blast into pieces and make the pieces turn into flower petals. Sweet.Guys think its weird... As always.They go out... Grubbs expecting a bit of action... But what does Reni do? Kiss on nose.. Byebye!He wants to press on but this uneasy feeling beneath his skin. Its nearly full moon (o) and that guys supposed to be a damn werewolf. He thinks he's turning. Locks himself up every night....And he is surprised to see that he has a new psychyatrist... A hot one! JUNI SWAN from Slawter! The chic knows magic too. Grubbs invites her to stay in the Grady manison.And DERV the PERV falls in deeee(few days later)eep Love with her. She loves him back. Clean. No problemo.The problem begins when Grubbs, Bill-E and Loch(their friend) go treasure hunting. Lord Sheftree's treasure... The guy who fed his babies to pirahnas! Coolio!DIG DIG DIG!YAY! We found a freakin awesome Cave!We go in... Admire the view. Loch and Bill-E try to climb the walls. Loch falls. DEAD. No blood or gore. Sucks.Then they mull over on how to explain shit to the authorities. The Cave. The turning and stuff.Boring as hell. But the ending! THE ENDING GROSSED ME OUT!Of course! Lord Loss is here too. Read the ending. I wont spoil it. Its the grossest till date.PLOT: Boring.... Just boring. "I am turning into a fuckin werewolf...aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!.... Mommmmmy! Me is scared!!! Me gonna call the Lambs!!!" kinda stuff. But, as I said, the ending was absolutely Coolio! BETRAYAL is always Coolio!CHARACTERS:Grubbs Grady: He is the best when it comes to humorous narration and comments on others. But the guy cant fuckin express his feelings. And since this book is mostly full of that shit. It lost STARS.Bill-E Spleen: My favorite guy after Lord Loss. This guy is the one I feel for. His feelings: loneliness, worst feeling ever.Loch Gossel: Sorry bro... Rest in peace. But roast in hell for 1 hour each for calling Bill-E a sucker."Touche Sucker!"Reni Gossel: ^_^Other kids: Why the fuck do you exist? Just to increase the number of pages?Dervish Grady: old SOaB! I told you not to get too close to her! Stop drooling! You're ruining her new bra! XPJuni Swan: stuck between two words... 'ANGEL' and 'BITCH'Tramp: You here too? Why the fuck do you act so mysteriously.Stone figure: I know who you aaa-aareee! Lil one!LORD LOSS: Yooohooo! What a spectacular entrance at the end of the book. Blood, gore, death all follow. Still LOVE his style.And oh! He's got new cronies.. Spine: A scorpion that gouges your eyes and spits eggs into it. Maggots.Femur: Cute bunny rabbit. If you don't count the acid it spits.Sorry. Not a good review since I am stuck between 1 star and 5 star (1+3)/2= 3 starAnd... Grubbs...Keep CalmandFight the Werewolf.
3rd QUARTERSiti Hajar Mohd. KhairiBlood Beastby Darren Shan217 pagesLittle, Brown & Company. $16.99isbn13: 9780316003773(Ages 12 & up)Twisted guts spilled out of Ma Spleen...Grubbs dreams. The twisted story comes back to life with its sounding plot. Now many of you might cringe at the gory details of brutal images such as spilling guts, but the plot keeps you hungry, like Grubbs, for more...Before it was the old age, in Bec's time. Now, it's back to the future with Grubbs as our howling protagonist undergoing changes based on the phases of the moon. It was when Grubbs and his friends discover the hidden tunnel that chaos blooms. His friend, Loch, dies. His half brother, Bill-e (though he doesn't know it), is in danger. The albino lady, Juni, reappears after the incident in Slawter and helps Dervish with Grubbs' case. Grubbs is terrified. Well who wouldn't be when they might turn into a werewolf? But hope is still strong. He has strong magic within him fighting the beast back.It was Dervish makes a terrible phone call that Grubbs is jittery about. He knows it's the right thing to do but he can't help but feel betrayed. Then, Juni helps and from then on...Grubbs might not be the same anymore...This book was so interesting. Even though the details are quite gross, the plot continues to be amazing. It might be a happy ending or it might not. Who knows? Darren Shan has a writing style that can bring a book to life. Read it. Really. You'll have a howl of a time.
What do You think about Blood Beast (2007)?
This book picks up with Grubbs Grady, an adolescent who is just starting to control and understand his magical abilities and is beginning to have a normal life after the events and slaughter that occured in books three and one when demons terrorized him, his brother BIll-E, and his uncle Dervish. He awakens at night to find he is partially turned to a werewolf and something within him fights it (He assumes it's his magic). Hoping that he doesn't have the same curse of lyncanthropy that his sister AND brother had he attempts to go on with life. At school his friend Loch who is a bully to Bill-E decides that while his uncles away they should party for a day at Grubbs house. Grubbs says yes and the party catches on. Later the next day him and Loch along with Bill-E dig for treasure, only to find a hole that Bill-E and Grubbs refuse to stop digging. Later that night Grubbs awakens half wolf at the hole digging ferociously. The hole is substantially bigger and he is left wondering what within him made him keep digging.The author really makes this a great first person book. I usually hate first person books due to their narrators being whiny adolescents or adults who complain about each problem that comes their way. Grubbs can be admirable and entertaining at times which is a great aspect of how this story as told. The author even does his best to depict the offhand subthoughts we all have sometimes. Five stars.
—Zachary Marianetti
Like its predecessor, Blood Beast is only okay. In some aspects it is an improvement but in others it is a downgrade.The narrative is returned back to Grubbs Grady who learns in this book that (gasp!) he has lyncanthropy. As he deals with that he also deals with your typical high school rubbish with him flirting with some girl he likes named Renee' while Renee's brother, Locke, who is also Grubbs' best friend, bullies Bill-E, Grubbs' other best friend. Why you ask, does a series about demons now feel like an episode of Dawson's Creek? Beats me.The only real redeemable quality is the twist ending when Lord Loss finally shows up (yes, he's hardly in this one) and with a betrayal from a key character (spoiler alert, but not really). It's cliff-hanger also leads us to the wicked cool follow up, Demon Apocalypse. What made this better than Bec was that it was easier to connect with the characters due to them not being bland and them being contemporary. What made it worse than Bec was that it lacked action and instead dealt with, for the most part, very uninteresting story lines.It is important to read it though for what happens next.
—Henry Hull
I love all of The Demonata series books so far. This one was slow starting, no gore and leaves you asking for more at the end of the book. A complete twist from what you would expect. I did research about this one before reading only because i was told it wasn't that good. The research made me skeptical as well. Despite the hear say i read anyway. Again it starts out slow and things are completely different the expected from beginning to end. So happy i did read it though. Very good book but very different from the first four. Worth a read.
—Tiffany Stinson
