And yet another book... (Term 3 Blog 8)

Hello everybody. I am sure all of you have realised that I have been posting a lot of book reviews. The main reason would be because I have nothing much to write about, and because I love reading, and I would like very much to introduce to you people some awesome books to read, to take a break off computer games. This book I will be introducing to you now is the third book of the series "Demonata" which is narrated through the eyes of Grubbs again.

This book is has the title of "Slawter", which I guess pretty much describes the scene in there. In this story, Dervish (Grubbs' uncle) meets up with famous horror film producer by the name of Davida Hymn. Davida already knows about demons, and even had a deal with them so that she could produce the most realistic movie of demons the world would ever see. Grubbs and Bill-E (Grubbs' brother) were extremely enthusiastic. Little did they know about the danger which awaited them. Along with Davida came a little albino lady by the name of Juni, with whom Dervish fell madly in love. Together with Davida and Juni, the trio (Grubbs, Bill-E, Dervish) went to an abandoned village, Slawter, to film the movie. To summarise everything which happened in Slawter, the acting crew died one by one when the "demons" (thought by all to be humans in costumes) attacked the village. Finally, on the last day of filming, the demon master Lord Loss (again!) launched an all-out attack on the humans. Davida was just getting satisfied by the ever-so-real scenes when the plan backfired. The demons turned on her and the shooting crew instead (never trust demons)! In the end, almost the entire population in Slawter died terribly, leaving only those miraculously saved by Grubbs and company alive. Yes, truly a sadistic pack of rampaging demons.

In this book, there is a character by the name of Bo Kooniart, who is one of the characters I admire. When the demons attacked, she kept a cool mind and cooperated with Grubbs (her enemy) to save as many lives as possible and to distract the demons. She displayed great courage when she was the only one who volunteered to get the actors out and loyalty when she went back to get her brother and father when she could jolly well just leave the danger zone. In the end, she died in the process of trying to save her father and brother. Just like any other book, you have to actually read the whole book yourself in order to understand the plot entirely. With this, I end this relatively lengthy book review.

{Slawter}

-Darren Shan