Dervish plays Chess while Grubbs fights the demons, then as he is about to lose Dervish abandons the game and saves him. The two player and the one they intended to cure, which is what happened to Grubs parents and sister. One will play chess on five different boards at the same time against Lord Loss while the other fights two of his familiars, if one of the two loses all three will be killed. Dervish explains everything and they decide to do battle with Lord Loss, the only one who can cure Bill-E. They try to find out how he controls himself but as they do, it turns out Bill-E is the werewolf and Dervish, his friend Meera and Grubbs barely survive the encounter due to his foolishness. He goes to life with him and meets Bill-E, who thinks that Dervish is his father and a werewolf.

Then one day his uncle Dervish shows up and believes him and helps him get out of the institution. At his aunt he sneaks out at night and goes home to find his family slaughtered by demons commanded by Demon Master Lord Loss, using magic he escapes and ends up in psychiatric care where nobody believes him about the demons. Then suddenly the situation changes, he is no longer grounded and he is sent to stay with his aunt after Gret apologizes to him for telling and being given several presents. For this he is grounded without any video entertainment. He finds out his sister Gret told on him and gets her back by putting rat guts on her towel. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.The books start as one day, Grubbs Grady is being called out of class for smoking and then he is punished by his mother for it at home. Debbie CartonĬopyright © American Library Association.

A sneak peek at the second book in the series, Demon Thief, shows Shan continuing in the same vein but with different characters.

The plot rolls along at high speed, but Shan is still quite adept when it comes to capturing Grubbs' roller-coaster emotions-loss and grief and, later, trust. Eventually, he is taken in by his uncle Dervish, discovers a cousin he never knew, and, alas, learns that lycanthropy runs in the family. Not surprisingly, he ends up in a mental institution, completely derailed by the horror he has seen and experienced. Grubbs is attacked by Lord Loss' familiars, marvelously creepy hybrid creatures, and to his great astonishment, he manages to escape. Grubitsch Grady ('Grubbs' for short) walks into his parents' bedroom to find his mother, father, and older sister torn to pieces by Lord Loss, a powerful demon that feeds on human pain and suffering. Older fans of Shan's gory, gripping Cirque du Freak series will welcome this first book in the Demonata series, which features a similar horrific spin, dark humor, and graphic detail.

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