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Daemon Eyes
The paranormal mystery of Eye Of The Daemon and Eyes Of The Empress together for the first time!
Kevin Bradley and his partners are uniquely qualified to handle cases involving the occult. He and Evan Davis are far more than the mere mortals they appear to be. Kevin is a powerful daemon lord, and Evan is his half-daemon, half-human son. Solving mortal crimes should be a cinch for them. But somehow, they never get the easy open-and-shut cases.
Kevin Bradley and his partners are uniquely qualified to handle cases involving the occult. He and Evan Davis are far more than the mere mortals they appear to be. Kevin is a powerful daemon lord, and Evan is his half-daemon, half-human son. Solving mortal crimes should be a cinch for them. But somehow, they never get the easy open-and-shut cases.
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First published January 1, 1998
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February 7, 2015
Another book in the massive Paranormal genre.
Daemon Eyes takes information about demons from a variety of sources and spins a story out of them. The actual research behind all of it is actually pretty well done on a lot of the material. However, this is where it hits a snag.
To have an idea of how the demon society works, you have to pay close attention to the small bits of information they give you during the story, as well as the small blurbs of insight given at the start of each chapter. Often this means that you don't know something you needed to know until later chapters. This creates a large disconnect while you struggle to understand the nuances of the character's interactions, only to learn about it chapters later after you've become frustrated.
Another problem this novel comes across is that Bacon-Smith's writing is fairly dry and most of the conversations come across as stiff and/or forced when compared to other writers in the paranormal genre. It's hard to care about the characters because of this, and instead you're left wondering why you're slogging your way through the pages.
All in all, a unique idea with a good amount of research that could have been so much more than what it ended up being. (hence 2 stars rather than 1) I do not recommend this book unless you are absolutely desperate.
Daemon Eyes takes information about demons from a variety of sources and spins a story out of them. The actual research behind all of it is actually pretty well done on a lot of the material. However, this is where it hits a snag.
To have an idea of how the demon society works, you have to pay close attention to the small bits of information they give you during the story, as well as the small blurbs of insight given at the start of each chapter. Often this means that you don't know something you needed to know until later chapters. This creates a large disconnect while you struggle to understand the nuances of the character's interactions, only to learn about it chapters later after you've become frustrated.
Another problem this novel comes across is that Bacon-Smith's writing is fairly dry and most of the conversations come across as stiff and/or forced when compared to other writers in the paranormal genre. It's hard to care about the characters because of this, and instead you're left wondering why you're slogging your way through the pages.
All in all, a unique idea with a good amount of research that could have been so much more than what it ended up being. (hence 2 stars rather than 1) I do not recommend this book unless you are absolutely desperate.
April 27, 2008
This book is actually an omnibus. You can find the books "Eye of the Daemon" and "Eyes of the Empress" inside. The author wrote a new prologue for this omnibus version that describes how Evan met his father and Lily, how they rescued him from the hands of the mad daemon Omage.
The first book takes place approximately one year after the prologue. Omage and his master return to get Evan back because they need him to open a gate to the second sphere. I must say that this story was a bit confusing in places and rather complicated. Especially because the daemons are so different from humans.
The second book takes place four years after the prologue. And it's more of a mystery. I also liked it better because I was already familiar with the strangeness of the daemons. The story was more straightforward too and not so complicated.
There were some story threads left loose so there could be another book in the series, but I don't think that there really is one. At least not yet.
The first book takes place approximately one year after the prologue. Omage and his master return to get Evan back because they need him to open a gate to the second sphere. I must say that this story was a bit confusing in places and rather complicated. Especially because the daemons are so different from humans.
The second book takes place four years after the prologue. And it's more of a mystery. I also liked it better because I was already familiar with the strangeness of the daemons. The story was more straightforward too and not so complicated.
There were some story threads left loose so there could be another book in the series, but I don't think that there really is one. At least not yet.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 15, 2011
Review of Eye of the Daemon:
Slight spoiler about characters at the end of the review, though nothing you don't find out about in the first pages of the first chapter of the book (not the prologue!). This is actually the first and second book in the series combined. I've only read the first one but am looking forward to reading the second.
Good book. Aside from the Kim Harrison books I'm not really into the whole daemon thing. I have to admit I was a bit confused when the author just started rattling off stuff about Princes, Lords, quorums and spheres and began spouting off the names of the higher-ups and who's connected to whom etc. So I basically just ignored the bits about that until the hierarchy became clearer as I read on, but understanding it all did take a while.
Though I had some idea of who was involved in what, how it all came together was a bit of a surprise, so it was nice not to know from page 20 who all of the bad guys are. Though it seems that every character is slightly bad or slightly nuts. Still, despite not being sure if I'd like any of the characters in the beginning, I grew to like the trio of good guys, though I occasionally wished someone would reduce Lily to ash. And the fact that she's Evan's father's cousin and Evan is sleeping with her has the potential to be really gross, but we're never told how closely they're related. I hope for the sake of my stomach it's distantly.
Review of Eyes of the Empress
I read this book, which is the second book in the Daemon Eyes collection, about ten months after I read the first book in the series. This one jumps about three years into the future and we are kind of thrown into the middle of Evan, Brad and Lily’s lives now. One of the biggest things to happen in the past three years is that Evan has been going to the University of Pennsylvania and is about to receive an art history degree.
While at a ceremony celebrating this, we learn that the agency of Bradley, Ryan and Davis has recently been hired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art to review their security as the Smithsonian and the U Penn art museum have recently been robbed. Apparently, though many things have been stolen, the purpose of the robberies seems to be the acquisition of two massive crystal balls, of which only one other exists, that being at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
New key players in the book are Harry Li, a Philadelphia Museum of Art board member who is also a former teacher of Evan’s and, unbeknownst to Evan, has been playing against Brad at a local chess club for over a year, and Harry’s wife, Ellen, a lieutenant with the Philadelphia PD, who also plays chess with Brad at the club and the agency’s attorney, Khadijah Flint. Another club member who winds up playing a big role in the book is an importer/exporter by the name of Mai Sein Chong.
The action really starts when Brad is found in museum kneeling over the body of an unconscious guard immediately after the museum has been robbed. All hell breaks loose, literally, in the coming days as Brad is accused of the theft, and even worse, by a former classmate of Evan’s, a sergeant by the name of Joe Dougherty, who’s been asked by Evan’s mother to investigate Brad, as she knows he doesn’t look like the man who seduced her then left her pregnant so many years ago. Of course she and her new husband, Harvey Barnes, also don’t know that Brad is a daemon or that Evan is part daemon. Both Brad and Lily insist that Evan talk to his mother and explain that he is indeed Brad’s son, even if it means revealing the true nature of his ancestry.
This story was much easier to follow than the first one, I guess I finally have a handle on this whole “daemon and the seven spheres” thing, and I found the storylines to be more interesting as well. A good portion of the book is spent dealing with Brad’s legal problems as well as with Evan’s problems with Joe and his mother. After that is sorted out, for better or worse, the remainder deals with the theft of the crystals, who stole them and why and how it will affect the daemons involved.
Though I don’t want to give anything away, something that Brad did at the end involving one of the thieves was stupid. I would’ve thrown this particular person under the bus without a second thought. Then I would’ve backed up over them, put the bus in drive and gunned it again.
While I have a better grip on the way daemons work, I just find it kind of boring. They’re supposed to be superior to humans (or at least they think so) and are immortal and able to move around wherever they want to, change their appearance and fly through different spheres. So what? They’re not corporeal in any of the spheres, except in the material one, and can blend minds etc., but all they seem to do is talk about allegiance to their lord and princes fighting when they’re in the other spheres. Yeah, sounds awesome. Plus, if they’re so advanced, why can’t they wrap their fake little human minds around the fact that you can’t blow crap up or disappear in front of people without them kinda wondering how that happened. Also, faking emotions, even if you don’t understand them, might help you actually pass as human.
And though I worried about the closeness of the familial relationship between Lily and Evan before I couldn’t care less now because I just want her to go away. Her character is not only more than a bit of a skank but is also annoying as hell. I’m over the whole “I only put up with you because you’re part of Ariton and Brad won’t let me end you” thing (of course that doesn’t stop her from banging Evan, among others, non-stop) and am sick of her answer to everything being “let’s kill them!” Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure she’s not going anywhere any time soon.
Despite my lack of enthusiasm for their world and some of their actions, I do really like this book and think it’s even better than the last. Brad experienced some significant changes in this one, which I liked, and he’s actually starting to exhibit feelings toward Evan that don’t revolve solely around blasting him out of existence.
I’ll be picking up the next book soon and hope, if it’s as good as this one, that another is on the way.
Slight spoiler about characters at the end of the review, though nothing you don't find out about in the first pages of the first chapter of the book (not the prologue!). This is actually the first and second book in the series combined. I've only read the first one but am looking forward to reading the second.
Good book. Aside from the Kim Harrison books I'm not really into the whole daemon thing. I have to admit I was a bit confused when the author just started rattling off stuff about Princes, Lords, quorums and spheres and began spouting off the names of the higher-ups and who's connected to whom etc. So I basically just ignored the bits about that until the hierarchy became clearer as I read on, but understanding it all did take a while.
Though I had some idea of who was involved in what, how it all came together was a bit of a surprise, so it was nice not to know from page 20 who all of the bad guys are. Though it seems that every character is slightly bad or slightly nuts. Still, despite not being sure if I'd like any of the characters in the beginning, I grew to like the trio of good guys, though I occasionally wished someone would reduce Lily to ash. And the fact that she's Evan's father's cousin and Evan is sleeping with her has the potential to be really gross, but we're never told how closely they're related. I hope for the sake of my stomach it's distantly.
Review of Eyes of the Empress
I read this book, which is the second book in the Daemon Eyes collection, about ten months after I read the first book in the series. This one jumps about three years into the future and we are kind of thrown into the middle of Evan, Brad and Lily’s lives now. One of the biggest things to happen in the past three years is that Evan has been going to the University of Pennsylvania and is about to receive an art history degree.
While at a ceremony celebrating this, we learn that the agency of Bradley, Ryan and Davis has recently been hired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art to review their security as the Smithsonian and the U Penn art museum have recently been robbed. Apparently, though many things have been stolen, the purpose of the robberies seems to be the acquisition of two massive crystal balls, of which only one other exists, that being at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
New key players in the book are Harry Li, a Philadelphia Museum of Art board member who is also a former teacher of Evan’s and, unbeknownst to Evan, has been playing against Brad at a local chess club for over a year, and Harry’s wife, Ellen, a lieutenant with the Philadelphia PD, who also plays chess with Brad at the club and the agency’s attorney, Khadijah Flint. Another club member who winds up playing a big role in the book is an importer/exporter by the name of Mai Sein Chong.
The action really starts when Brad is found in museum kneeling over the body of an unconscious guard immediately after the museum has been robbed. All hell breaks loose, literally, in the coming days as Brad is accused of the theft, and even worse, by a former classmate of Evan’s, a sergeant by the name of Joe Dougherty, who’s been asked by Evan’s mother to investigate Brad, as she knows he doesn’t look like the man who seduced her then left her pregnant so many years ago. Of course she and her new husband, Harvey Barnes, also don’t know that Brad is a daemon or that Evan is part daemon. Both Brad and Lily insist that Evan talk to his mother and explain that he is indeed Brad’s son, even if it means revealing the true nature of his ancestry.
This story was much easier to follow than the first one, I guess I finally have a handle on this whole “daemon and the seven spheres” thing, and I found the storylines to be more interesting as well. A good portion of the book is spent dealing with Brad’s legal problems as well as with Evan’s problems with Joe and his mother. After that is sorted out, for better or worse, the remainder deals with the theft of the crystals, who stole them and why and how it will affect the daemons involved.
Though I don’t want to give anything away, something that Brad did at the end involving one of the thieves was stupid. I would’ve thrown this particular person under the bus without a second thought. Then I would’ve backed up over them, put the bus in drive and gunned it again.
While I have a better grip on the way daemons work, I just find it kind of boring. They’re supposed to be superior to humans (or at least they think so) and are immortal and able to move around wherever they want to, change their appearance and fly through different spheres. So what? They’re not corporeal in any of the spheres, except in the material one, and can blend minds etc., but all they seem to do is talk about allegiance to their lord and princes fighting when they’re in the other spheres. Yeah, sounds awesome. Plus, if they’re so advanced, why can’t they wrap their fake little human minds around the fact that you can’t blow crap up or disappear in front of people without them kinda wondering how that happened. Also, faking emotions, even if you don’t understand them, might help you actually pass as human.
And though I worried about the closeness of the familial relationship between Lily and Evan before I couldn’t care less now because I just want her to go away. Her character is not only more than a bit of a skank but is also annoying as hell. I’m over the whole “I only put up with you because you’re part of Ariton and Brad won’t let me end you” thing (of course that doesn’t stop her from banging Evan, among others, non-stop) and am sick of her answer to everything being “let’s kill them!” Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure she’s not going anywhere any time soon.
Despite my lack of enthusiasm for their world and some of their actions, I do really like this book and think it’s even better than the last. Brad experienced some significant changes in this one, which I liked, and he’s actually starting to exhibit feelings toward Evan that don’t revolve solely around blasting him out of existence.
I’ll be picking up the next book soon and hope, if it’s as good as this one, that another is on the way.
January 27, 2020
So very fun!
December 1, 2009
I was not aware that Camille Bacon-Smith had written fiction. Those of you for whom this name means nothing will find this review to consist of 20% inexplicable nonsense.
Evan Davis knows something is different about him because he has dreams, every night, so terrifying he contemplates suicide. He's pretty sure his mystery father, a one-night stand, has something to do with it. His search for his father leads him into bad company, but on the brink of death, his psychic distress threatens to destroy two worlds, and his father comes to find out who this squalling half-mortal is.
(Why do my attempts at summing up often come out sounding like they should be done by movie-trailor voice-over guy?)
And then we skip to a year later, when Davis, Bradly, and Ryan have set up a detective agency which, alongside other matters, handles the occult "with discretion." The demons Badad (Kevin Bradly) and Lirion (Lily Ryan) have decided to stick around and see what this half-mortal thing is about. The demons are well done; Badad and Lirion are, in fact, constituent parts of their greater whole, Ariton. Ariton's invocation requires the cooperation of a critical mass of the demonic host, so he's more an association than a character; for the most part he's present only in the persons of Lirion and Badad Their relationship to each-other is kin-like, but Badad certainly has no referent for ideas like 'father' and 'son', which is what Evan wants him to be. He sticks around out of a vague disquiet, and certainly hasn't ruled out killing Evan, if it should seem convenient.
Looking for traces of fannish influence, I think it shows primarily in its disinclination to waste too much time on the setup, and interest in manpain. Even is besotted by Lily, but is she even capable of love? She's certainly not capable of monogamy, nor interested in it. He wants a father's love, but Badad's strongest emotion toward Evan appears to be a sort of possessiveness. (I see fandom perking its ears up.) And then Evan has to enslave them both in a magical binding for plot reasons. Will either of them ever trust him again (assuming they don't kill him!)?!!
I mean, it's not that sensationalized in the book, I'm just sayin'.
Warning! This book skirts around the edges of incest. On the incest-o-meter, it's about even with Mary Shelley's [Book:Frankenstein], but far less embarrassed about it. Lily, who describes herself as 'cousin' to Evan's father, when using human terms, has sex with Evan on a regular basis; she recommends the experience to his father, who is forced to decline, having encountered human incest taboos before. Furthermore, three quarters of the people who Evan meets think his father is his sugar-daddy, including his mother, since she does remember her one-night stand well enough to know that ain't him.
If I had to guess, this book most closely resembles a certain Davis-Panzer property, but I don't really see any signs of serial numbers, it's mostly just in a few relationship dynamics. Contrariwise, if this book was a fandom, it would produce immense quantities of fic much more incestuous than the book.
Demon Eyes is an omnibus combining two books, [Book:Eye of the Demon], and [Book:The Eyes of the Empress]. I had read the latter, perhaps a decade ago, and enjoyed it enough to make a note to be on the lookout for the first one. This book has been slightly rewritten to make them fit together better, but it remains very much a book set in the '90s, to the extent that when someone recommends a 2000 vintage, I was very confused, wondered if they were drinking alcohol from 2000 BCE, wondered if they were drinking alcohol from the future, and then went back to see if my memory of the publication dates was correct.
Evan Davis knows something is different about him because he has dreams, every night, so terrifying he contemplates suicide. He's pretty sure his mystery father, a one-night stand, has something to do with it. His search for his father leads him into bad company, but on the brink of death, his psychic distress threatens to destroy two worlds, and his father comes to find out who this squalling half-mortal is.
(Why do my attempts at summing up often come out sounding like they should be done by movie-trailor voice-over guy?)
And then we skip to a year later, when Davis, Bradly, and Ryan have set up a detective agency which, alongside other matters, handles the occult "with discretion." The demons Badad (Kevin Bradly) and Lirion (Lily Ryan) have decided to stick around and see what this half-mortal thing is about. The demons are well done; Badad and Lirion are, in fact, constituent parts of their greater whole, Ariton. Ariton's invocation requires the cooperation of a critical mass of the demonic host, so he's more an association than a character; for the most part he's present only in the persons of Lirion and Badad Their relationship to each-other is kin-like, but Badad certainly has no referent for ideas like 'father' and 'son', which is what Evan wants him to be. He sticks around out of a vague disquiet, and certainly hasn't ruled out killing Evan, if it should seem convenient.
Looking for traces of fannish influence, I think it shows primarily in its disinclination to waste too much time on the setup, and interest in manpain. Even is besotted by Lily, but is she even capable of love? She's certainly not capable of monogamy, nor interested in it. He wants a father's love, but Badad's strongest emotion toward Evan appears to be a sort of possessiveness. (I see fandom perking its ears up.) And then Evan has to enslave them both in a magical binding for plot reasons. Will either of them ever trust him again (assuming they don't kill him!)?!!
I mean, it's not that sensationalized in the book, I'm just sayin'.
Warning! This book skirts around the edges of incest. On the incest-o-meter, it's about even with Mary Shelley's [Book:Frankenstein], but far less embarrassed about it. Lily, who describes herself as 'cousin' to Evan's father, when using human terms, has sex with Evan on a regular basis; she recommends the experience to his father, who is forced to decline, having encountered human incest taboos before. Furthermore, three quarters of the people who Evan meets think his father is his sugar-daddy, including his mother, since she does remember her one-night stand well enough to know that ain't him.
If I had to guess, this book most closely resembles a certain Davis-Panzer property, but I don't really see any signs of serial numbers, it's mostly just in a few relationship dynamics. Contrariwise, if this book was a fandom, it would produce immense quantities of fic much more incestuous than the book.
Demon Eyes is an omnibus combining two books, [Book:Eye of the Demon], and [Book:The Eyes of the Empress]. I had read the latter, perhaps a decade ago, and enjoyed it enough to make a note to be on the lookout for the first one. This book has been slightly rewritten to make them fit together better, but it remains very much a book set in the '90s, to the extent that when someone recommends a 2000 vintage, I was very confused, wondered if they were drinking alcohol from 2000 BCE, wondered if they were drinking alcohol from the future, and then went back to see if my memory of the publication dates was correct.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 8, 2007
Daemon Eyes is a re-release of two novels by Camille Bacon-Smith: Eye of the Daemon and Eyes of the Empress, updated for the new millennium and including a new prologue detailing the events immediately before the first book, and explaining how exactly Evan ended up working for a bunch of daemons.
I was given this book as a joke, because I love all things cheesy and supernatural, and the fact that the very title of the book included a new-age misspelling seemed to promise worlds of cheese. I was, however, vaguely disappointed. The first book took me almost two weeks to read, which is far too long a period of time for a book that simplistic. I was unable to really get into it. Although it had great promise as a mystery novel involving other-worldly characters, it kept getting bogged down in conspiracies and plot contrivances that made no sense. There was very little character development, and many of the decisions made little sense and were never explained. Several decisions (the binding of Brad and Lily, for instance) never seemed to serve any real purpose other than to make room for the deus ex machina at the end of the novel. It was also never satisfactorialy explained how a character who had limited control and seemingly no real power could suddenly stand against a daemon Prince.
I was tempted to break my long standing rule of always reading a book from beginning to end, and not finish the book, but luckily I chose to stick with it. The second book was MUCH better, and took me only two days to finish. All attempts at conspiracies and plot twists were abandoned in favour of a more conventional (and much more interesting) simply mystery approach. Also, the POV of the novel switched between Evan and Brad, which made it much easier to read, because we were not constantly being bashed over the head with the unending stupidity of the half-daemon boy. Although Evan continued to lean towards a Gary Stu level of powers discovered at the last moment, it made much more sense this time around. I would definitely recommend Eyes of the Empress for anyone looking for a fun supernatural mystery novel... but I would only recommend Eye of the Daemon to someone with a strong desire for unnecessary back story.
I was given this book as a joke, because I love all things cheesy and supernatural, and the fact that the very title of the book included a new-age misspelling seemed to promise worlds of cheese. I was, however, vaguely disappointed. The first book took me almost two weeks to read, which is far too long a period of time for a book that simplistic. I was unable to really get into it. Although it had great promise as a mystery novel involving other-worldly characters, it kept getting bogged down in conspiracies and plot contrivances that made no sense. There was very little character development, and many of the decisions made little sense and were never explained. Several decisions (the binding of Brad and Lily, for instance) never seemed to serve any real purpose other than to make room for the deus ex machina at the end of the novel. It was also never satisfactorialy explained how a character who had limited control and seemingly no real power could suddenly stand against a daemon Prince.
I was tempted to break my long standing rule of always reading a book from beginning to end, and not finish the book, but luckily I chose to stick with it. The second book was MUCH better, and took me only two days to finish. All attempts at conspiracies and plot twists were abandoned in favour of a more conventional (and much more interesting) simply mystery approach. Also, the POV of the novel switched between Evan and Brad, which made it much easier to read, because we were not constantly being bashed over the head with the unending stupidity of the half-daemon boy. Although Evan continued to lean towards a Gary Stu level of powers discovered at the last moment, it made much more sense this time around. I would definitely recommend Eyes of the Empress for anyone looking for a fun supernatural mystery novel... but I would only recommend Eye of the Daemon to someone with a strong desire for unnecessary back story.
September 25, 2013
I literally bought this book for the cover. Was browsing my fave used bookstore and after spying the cover, I read the first page and it just grabbed my interest with lines like "She wore a pink suit that seemed out of place on her, as if the limits of her straight skirt caught her by surprise at each step".
It did not disappoint me, other than was a bit chaotic at times to follow, but the writing is clever, the characters fun, with baddies being real bad, innocents caught in the crossfire, humans being human and daemons trying to decide just what to do next and battling their own new found 'feelings'. And with it being centered on a detective agency that specializes in recovering stolen art for clients on a discreet basis with a dab of occult cases too, made for some delightful 'who-dunnit' fun with a twist of daemon. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on book 3 - A Legacy of Daemons. Really!
It did not disappoint me, other than was a bit chaotic at times to follow, but the writing is clever, the characters fun, with baddies being real bad, innocents caught in the crossfire, humans being human and daemons trying to decide just what to do next and battling their own new found 'feelings'. And with it being centered on a detective agency that specializes in recovering stolen art for clients on a discreet basis with a dab of occult cases too, made for some delightful 'who-dunnit' fun with a twist of daemon. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on book 3 - A Legacy of Daemons. Really!
August 22, 2015
Unremarkable.
Okay, not entirely. The demon lore was actually handled pretty well, but otherwise there's nothing interesting or unique about this duology, nothing that makes it stand out from every other urban fantasy on the market. The constant references to Brad and Lily's demonic nature were tiresome and unnecessary--okay, I get that they don't experience normal human emotions like love or grief, because those things are totally foreign to demons. Yes, of course their identities on the human plane are fabricated, because they're actually demons. Although they've (mostly) learned to blend in with humans, they also exude a sense of mystery and danger, because--wait for it--they're demons! Unfortunately, they had no personality or defining characteristics beyond that. Nothing to make me care about them as people. And Evan was no better. Massive amounts of angst and a penchant for doing stupid/reckless things do not equal character development.
Okay, not entirely. The demon lore was actually handled pretty well, but otherwise there's nothing interesting or unique about this duology, nothing that makes it stand out from every other urban fantasy on the market. The constant references to Brad and Lily's demonic nature were tiresome and unnecessary--okay, I get that they don't experience normal human emotions like love or grief, because those things are totally foreign to demons. Yes, of course their identities on the human plane are fabricated, because they're actually demons. Although they've (mostly) learned to blend in with humans, they also exude a sense of mystery and danger, because--wait for it--they're demons! Unfortunately, they had no personality or defining characteristics beyond that. Nothing to make me care about them as people. And Evan was no better. Massive amounts of angst and a penchant for doing stupid/reckless things do not equal character development.
July 3, 2014
Daemon Eyes is a book about two daemons, along with a half daemon/half human who are private investigators of the paranormal type. The plot seemed interesting, however, the writing was so overly complex and the story line so slow moving that I couldn't get very far into it before giving up. It doesn't mean that someone else wouldn't enjoy it, but it wasn't a book for me.
September 14, 2010
I couldn't get past the first fifteen pages. It was confusing and surreal and just bah. I've read better "daemon" books so there was no need to continue with this one.
It only sucks that I bought the third on accident. Hello bookswap anyone?
It only sucks that I bought the third on accident. Hello bookswap anyone?
September 29, 2014
This is a re-release of two books into one volume, with additional prologue.
The characters are very well thought out and interesting. Even when the story gets slow the chacters are enough to keep you reading.
Immortals, 7 sphere's to the world and the supernatural combine for a good read.
The characters are very well thought out and interesting. Even when the story gets slow the chacters are enough to keep you reading.
Immortals, 7 sphere's to the world and the supernatural combine for a good read.
November 12, 2011
Really enjoyable. Satisfyingly unpredictable. Smith also did a very good joy of reinventing what the word 'daemon' means. Good pacing, good plot, interesting dialogue structure, and wonderfully complex characters and relationships. Well worth a read!
December 11, 2012
I struggled with this one. The story concept and the author's writing style are both nicely original -- I just couldn't get all that excited about the characters or what was going on. I do think there's something there, but perhaps I just wasn't the right audience for it.
September 3, 2008
A reprint of two fantasies that I missed the first time around. Enjoyed them. Too bad there aren't more books in the series.
October 29, 2008
Could not finish it. After 100 pages, it seems I should have liked at least ONE of the characters and cared a little bit what happened to them, and I didn't.
July 5, 2010
Never made it very far into this one, was bored right from the start, nothing was there to grab me into the story.
March 16, 2015
The writing could have been better, but the plot itself was quite interesting. It's a shame that the series hasn't been continued.
March 12, 2009
Easily the shittiest urban-fantasy series EVER.
—Rob-2142z
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