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The Accidental Demon Slayer | 
 enlarge | Author: Angie Fox
Publisher: Love Spell
Category: EBooks
List Price: $5.99
Buy New: $4.79
You Save: $1.20 (20%)
Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 8300
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 292
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B001GCUJI4
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
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Product Description
It's never a good day when an ancient demon shows up on your toilet bowl. For Lizzie Brown, that's just the beginning. Soon her hyperactive terrier starts talking, and her long-lost biker witch Grandma is hurling Smuckers jars filled with magic. Just when she thinks she's seen it all, Lizzie learns she's a demon slayer-and all hell is after her. POf course, that's not the only thing after her. Dimitri Kallinikos, a devastatingly handsome shape-shifting griffin needs Lizzie to slay a demon of his own. But how do you talk a girl you've never met into going straight to the underworld? Lie. And if that doesn't work, how dangerous could a little seduction be...?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 White Trash, White Trash, White Trash January 7, 2009
Anna Hope (PA United States)
This book had a cute cover, a lot of buzz, and a great sounding back cover. And it was the worst book I've read in three years! Which is a shame because I was really looking forward to it. The opener was very good, and then the entire book lost steam. I'd like to say it went to the dogs but since the dog in this book is one of the only interesting characters that's not even true. It went to the hole in the floor biker bar with beer cans littering everything and the heroine walking in filth and to the decrepit laundry strewn trailer park next to the the shoddy Shoney's. I kid you not. br / br /The heroine starts off with some spunk but quickly gets bullied by her cussing, spitting, Harley riding, roadkill hurling grandma she's just met five minutes ago to leaving her entire world except her dog behind.(Why suddenly upon transformation to a demon slayer she can hear the dog talking never explained, by the way.)Her clothes, her friends and her life thrown a way within seconds she's bossed around by beer swilling, chain smoking, squirrel and possum eating witches who physically beat on her, never explain anything to her but constantly make her feel bad, and pimp her out to a local pack of werewolves. They spend time crawling in and out of dumpsters and storage shed's and then the conveniently placed Griffin male lead teaches her everything she needs to know to slay demons and enter hell - something she spent exactly 30 years not knowing she could do- basically overnight. br / br /Plus the heroine spent the entire book making snippy comments about the adoptive parents who raised her, for no good reason. I can understand that the author was trying to add color and a plot device to her book with the geriatric, roadkill eating, coven of witches. But she took the raccoon livers and dead creatures to a point where you just though, enough all ready, this is stupid!
A little tweaking could make it better... January 5, 2009
S. McCullough (Indianapolis, IN)
First off I would give "The Accidental Demon Slayer" a two and half star review if I could. My three star books are books that I enjoyed reading without any huge complaints but with nothing phenomenal standing out either. TADS had a few weak spots marring my reading experience. The plot is simple and cute. I grabbed this one out of my TBR stack because I was desperately wanting to read it. A preschool teacher, Lizzie Brown, finds out from her newly found Grandma that she is a destined Demon Slayer. Suddenly bad things are showing up in her bathroom and her Jack Russell terrier is literally speaking to her. Grandma just happens to be in a biker witch coven and starts Lizzie on the path to demon hunting training and knowledge. Along the way, she meets a griffin, who also happens to be her Protector. And he is HOT. If you are like me, you know where that perticular storyline is going. Angie Fox seems like a great person and I really enjoyed certain aspects of this story. The Red Skull biker club was a hoot and I loved each member of it, especially SideCar Bob and Ant Eater. Grandma Gertie was a hoot too. Dimitri the Griffin/Protector didn't stand out as having much different a personality than any other peranormal romance hero and thats a bummer. The story went through parts that read quickly and entertained and then parts that seemed to drag on and events unfolded unclearly. There was a time or two I had to back up and re-read a portion to try to figure out what I missed. The ending sequence was over far to quickly and easily. I was annoyed time and again that secondary characters would get on poor Lizzie about not knowing how to do some Demon Slaying thing and she was untrained, pushed into it, and only aware of her demon slaying nature for a few days! The biggest negative is, while I adored Pirate, the dog, to pieces, his speaking grated my nerves. He reminded me of Scrappy Doo from Scooby Doo...and in my opinion that is so not a good thing. Pirate and SideCar Bob are an adorable duo if we could just kill some of that canine speaking. For the first half of the book at least, I was sure that I wasn't going to read the sequel, but the story did truly come along enough that I might be enticed to try the next book. Sometimes it takes a book or two to get into the flow of things...for both the author and the reader. There is good, bad, and even ugly in this book and I recommend it to the paranormal reader who hasn't got anything else to read. With caution.
 Wacky new series December 27, 2008
Debi Domby (Southgate, Mich)
And I really liked her book. It was fun and quirky and different from the normal paranormal books with vamps and weres (although there are some weres in the book). I picked it up because of the biker grandma... sorry that just sounded too funny... and throw in a whole coven of biker grandmas... it was pretty funny. br / br /The book was easy to read and I made it though pretty fast. In other words, it held my interest... I kept reading to see what would happen next to Lizzie. Imagine losing your predictable life at age 30 and finding out you're the foretold demon hunter. br / br /The book had some medium sex scenes (that fit into the story) and a talking dog. Don't get a lot of those in books. I don't think there's a vamp one in the book, so those of you looking for something different, give this one a try, think you'll really like it.
Wacky Characters from a New Talent December 15, 2008
Frances C. Didonato
An enthralling read from a different universe, I enjoyed this book so much that I read it twice. Dynamic, if wacky, characters abound and the story draws in the reader. A page turner, this is the most enjoyable book I read in ages. If people don't like it, they can kiss my asphalt. I look forward to the author's next book -- hopefully it will be just as zany. br /
 Blah. Don't bother. December 6, 2008
Little D (California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought this book looked good and I'm a fan of witchy and vampirey books. I started reading it and it just bored me. I started skimming it and did that the rest of the way through, because I'll feel like it's a tatal waste of money if i dont at least do that.
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