Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: How We Sell Our Souls
SERIES: In the Darkness #1
AUTHOR: Emilie Lucadamo
PUBLISHER: Ninestar Press
LENGTH: 171 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 26, 2018
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When George Soto turns twenty-six, his life is less than perfect. Stuck in a dead-end job, watching his friends pass him by, it’s quickly starting to feel like he’s going nowhere. When he finds a strange ritual meant to contract a demon, he doesn’t imagine it could possibly work.
Until there’s a demon standing in his living room.
George doesn’t know what a contract with a demon entails, but it seems like a great opportunity to get revenge on his awful boss. Gradually, he and the demon—an abrasive entity who calls himself Jack—form an alliance.
But as things heat up between them, George almost doesn’t notice the increasing darkness in his life. The nights are longer, the shadows grow heavier, and the world around him seems to be distorting.
REVIEW:
Wow what a start to this series. To think it started with a harmless birthday drink or two with a few friends and ended up with demons everywhere. All because of something that was supposed to be a joke. Demonology is no joke, neither is reincarnation, which George and his friends quickly learned.
George was happy. Kind of. He guessed. Not really. His only real friends were the ones from college, he had a job he really didn’t like because his boss was an asshole, but it was a paycheck. It’s his birthday and he doesn’t even get a real party. Just his three friends in a bar getting drunk. As they leave to go home, completely wasted, they all decide they need to pee but nothing seems open. Except for a bookstore. But something about this bookstore strikes George as odd. Markings on the bells entering the shop, papers and books everywhere.
As his friends go to the bathroom, George can’t help but be nosey. And what he sees shocks him. Pages of writing he can’t understand, except for a few. One grabs his attention quickly. A circle with symbols all around, and in the center…a pentagram. And he quickly reads what this page is. How to summon a demon. He’s startled as a door shut, and pages fly everywhere. Just when he thinks he’s gotten them all out back, out everyone comes. As they’re going home, he realizes he accidentally kept the summoning demon page. Matt suggests trying as a date but George thinks no. Until he does. And what he does starts something he has no way to fix. And nothing to chase away the shadows. With horrid events happening around him, he now knows what has to be done to fix it. And it’s not a pretty picture.
George learns real quick not to mess with something he knows nothing about. When he meets his demon, ‘Jack’, at first he’s terrified. But as Jack shows George his ‘human’ side, George is quickly in lust. He does everything he can to make friends with Jack. But what he doesn’t realize, is every time he summons Jack, texts him, calls him, whatever, he’s paying a price. He just has no clue what it is. But when his life is threatened twice to the point of almost dying, he’s getting a clue. And the next price he has to pay, is one of the worst ever. And the only way to stop the war Jack has said started, is the ultimate price. Could you imagine?
I remember growing up and the Ouija boards were a big thing. Hose things creeped me out then. I couldn’t imagine having a real live demon at my disposal. Especially if I didn’t know the whole story about it all before I did the ritual.
But I tell ya. This story has some definite dark elements. So if you have trouble with this kind of stuff be careful. But if not, this is one hell of a start to this series. I really enjoyed it.
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