Reviews for Running with the Demon (Word and The Void Trilogy Series #1)

The average rating for Running with the Demon (Word and The Void Trilogy Series #1) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-03 00:00:00 Fabio Stanzani I skimmed. A lot. While the plot was pretty interesting, there was just too much in the way of nonsense descriptions about the landscape and history of the town, which had no bearing on the story, for me to pay attention to every word. I just don't do well with stuff like that. But once you scraped off all the useless information, this was a fairly neat take on the tale of the Battle Between Good and Evil. The young girl in this coming of age story has a power inside of her that can be used to save the world...or to destroy it! *dum, dum, duuuum* That part of the book was good stuff. The other problem I had (besides all the boring wah, wah, wah descriptions) was that all the adults in her life kept her in the dark about all the things she needed to know. And there was NO reason for it, other than to drive the mystery of her parentage, and set her up to potentially be so blindsided by everything that she might fail to make the right choice. <--That? It's quickly becoming my top pet peeve in books. It just...UGH! Still. I did (for the most part) end up enjoying this far more than I expected. I'd recommend this one to those of you who really love the Dark vs Light sort of storylines.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-30 00:00:00 Jacqueline Popen Good versus evil in a cool dark urban fantasy. Terry Brooks is of course THAT Terry Brooks, the same guy who wrote the fabulously well to do Sword of Shannara series that won much acclaim and earned oodles of coin for him and the publishers. This takes place in a small midwestern town setting that made me think of Ray Bradbury and the idea of an invisible battle between good and evil forces also reminded me of Frank E. Peretti's 1986 novel This Present Darkness. A knight of the WORD is there and is opposed by a demon of the VOID. And so we're off on a magical adventure with a 14 year old girl protagonist, serious family drama including domestic abuse and some frightening scenes. I'll be honest and say I did not like this as much as I wanted to. I very much liked the setting, some of the characters and the idea for the story, but I just never completely bought into his narrative. There was much to like still and maybe the highlight was the character Pick, a small sylvan faerie who I thought of as a reimagining of Shakespeare's Puck but who a friend thought of as a baby Groot - and I think she's right.