Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom
I picked up Carpe Demon while on a lengthy visit to a local Half Price Books with my husband and brother-in-law, and read half of it while we were there, but it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I ordered it from Amazon.com along with its sequel.
I was hooked at first by the tag line, about how the protagonist, Kate, was something like an adult (as in grown up, not as in XXX) version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but while the whole “California girl fights demons” think does make their stories seem similar, Kate is not not at all like Buffy. For one thing, Kate has a husband, two children, one of whom is a teenager, and a minivan. As well, her demon hunting doesn’t seem to be mystical calling, as much as a choice made when she was largely choiceless.
Still, the snappy dialogue, humor-laced action sequences, and fast-paced plot made this book an enjoyable and entertaining read, and I’m currently in the middle of the sequel.
So Melissa, I love books that are slightly “askew” from the norm. Is the humor laugh out loud funny or is it more of an inward chuckle type of thing?
Almost forgot…..Michelle says hi!
Hi Melissa – Thank you for visiting. I love how you have your list of authors read on the side. Very cool. Don’t mind me as I browse around and can’t wait to talk more books :)
Hey, thanks for the heads-up over on my blog. And thanks for the review! The site looks great.
And since I’m here, for Sarch, most of the humor is in the way Kate looks at the world, so for me, I’d say it’s more inward chuckle. The themes are serious, child-rearing, home v. work, marriage, faith, but Kate has a skewed perspective and it comes out in her dialogue and internals. That being said, some situations are LOL funny; the one most people tell me cracked them up is the demon in the pantry scene.