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I wasn’t going to read Demon Road by Derek Landy, when I first read about it. It didn’t seem like a book that I wasn’t going to life, it wasn’t something that I normally read. I have only read a couple of books that had a horror elements. However, after reading so many reviews about it, I had to pick it up.
I haven’t read anything else from Derek Landy so I didn’t have anything to go by. I didn’t know what his writing style was like or how he wrote his characters, but after reading Demon Road I want to read his other works because I love it.
Demon Road follows protagonist Amber on a road trip of a lifetime. And not the road trip that you do after your final year of school, but the road trip that you see in supernatural, that includes killer cars, vampires, and undead serial killers. Teaming up with Milo and Glen, Amber is in for …show more content…
I loved the wit of Demon Road, the dialogue was sharp and hit you right in the chest, and it was different and fun.
I loved the characterisation of Landy characters. They were fun, different and bright.
Amber was a really interesting protagonist. She has just found out that she is a demon and can shift into her demon; sometimes not on her own will and now she is on the run because people are trying to kill her. I liked that didn’t get all down on herself for the post part. She has this sassy attitude that I loved. It was also nice to see that she was worried about killing people, she is this demon and sometimes she can’t control it, she was afraid that she would so something in the demon form that she wouldn’t want to do in her human form.
The very oh-secretive Milo. I adored Milo, it was so serious all the time but that kind of contrasted Amber’s sassiness. He was there to protect Amber as much as he could. His secret was very cool and so excited to see what comes from it in the next

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