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Mark Of The Demon (2009)

by Diana Rowland(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0553592351 (ISBN13: 9780553592351)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bantam

series

Kara Gillian

review 1: More like a 3.5. I am conflicted about how I felt about this book. I enjoyed it for the most part. I really did. But it wasn't what I was expecting, wanting, desiring to read at the moment.I have read/listened to Diana Rowland's White Trash Zombie books. I was hoping for something like those but with a different heroine, if you. Think about that for a moment. We all hate when an author writes the same book but with a different heroine. So my premise was all wrong to begin with.Anyhoo, don't be looking for Angel in Kara. Are there similarities? Yes. But the Kara Gillian book was darker. There was not as much humor. Kara is not as disingenuous as our zombie gal Angel, nor is she all that worldly wise. But she knows what she is from day 1. There is no fumbling ... morearound, in humorous ways, to figure out how to deal with her situation. I have told you what it is not. Now I will share what it is.Kara Gillian is a cop. But she is a cop with an outside life that includes her being a summoner. She summons demons. Now, these demons will do stuff for summoners, but there are different levels of demons one can summon. If you summon a demon that is not of a mind to be summoned, you could be opening up a can of demonic worms you really don't want to open. And Kara does just that. But Kara can't figure out why or how she did it. She didn't want to. But she did. And of course, the demon doesn't shed any light on the situation for her.So what we have is a cop with an unwanted demon. And then next thing you know, we have a cop with serial killer on her hands. Coincidence? I think not. So the story takes us through the machinations of the serial killer, and the machinations of a demon lord with an agenda. Kara is the focal point of both. There are a lot of red herrings in this book. Red herrings that you can smell. That is not my favorite plot device. They did seem a bit heavy handed. I also had some issues with Kara's initial meeting with the demon. I didn't "approve" of what happened, nor did I approve when it happened again. But it is all explained away in a PC kind of way so I decided not to get my panties in a twist.I listened to the Audible version. The narrator is Liv Anderson. I can't remember listening to her before, but I will now seek out books she has narrated. I thought she did a wonderful job.
review 2: Diana Rowland has a great plot for this story. But something about it just turned me off. The more I think about it the more I can't really place what was wrong about it. I liked the main character, the plot, the love interests, and the mystery. If I had to guess I would say it has something to do with the style of writing. After a little bit it's like there are too many words to explains something so simple. I basically got tired of reading all the extraneous stuff. So, then I just started skipping all of it to scan for dialogue. I think maybe it was a mistake to do this book in first person. There was just too much going on around the main character. So, most of the time is spent inside her head having her explain every little detail in the hopes that we don't miss anything since we (the audience) are only getting one view point. If I were Diana Rowland I would rewrite this in third person. That way we get way more of a plot summation instead of getting dragged down by every insignificant detail that the main character is forced to discuss so that we feel included. I think I will give Diana Rowland another shot, even though I DNF this book. I just got too tired. Maybe I will go back and finish it eventually. less

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