Book #29: The Demon's Covenant, by Sarah Rees-Brennan

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A book about boys, sort of, set in England, magic is a bad thing, maybe they're all just misunderstood, not Supernatural but kind of like it.

I am not sure, but I think the overall message of this book is that boys are evil. ;)

I am really glad that Mae got to be the POV character this time. It was also nice that she was awesome without having to be magical (even if in the end, she kind of was). I liked how she was all "I am going to do this, get out of my way", and even though Alan lies compulsively, it still worked.

Seriously, if these people don't start talking to one another, I am going to light them on fire.

I am curious to know what the reaction to Alan's healing is. Because it's completely twisted in the book, like everything else Alan does, but at the same time, it's also the magical healing of a disabled character, and I know sometimes that is not always as great as you might think. (For myself, I am so beyond caring what happens to both Alan and Nick that I have no opinion one way or the other.)

I hope the third book is from Sin's point of view. And is mostly about her and Mae. That would be AWESOME.

8 out of 10, because Jamie is funny and Mae is unmagical and did a pretty good job of just about everything.

Comments

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I don't think it counts as obnoxious magical healing, because Alan is only healed for about five minutes before Gerald cripples him again. It's a pretty big subversion of the usual trope in that respect, and it's doubly painful because it hurts Nick as well as Alan. I personally thought it very well done.

And yes, the third book is from Sin's point of view.

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That's what I thought, but historically I am a terrible judge of things like that.