The Demonata: Lord Loss

This book is great. Amazing. Awesome. Words can't describe how crazy The Demonata series is.
The best part is when Grubbs plays chess with Lord Loss to turn his long lost brother back into a human. It's a very gruesome book and not for everyone. Definitely not kids.

* reviewed by Chance, he's to lazy to make his own profile.

Reader reviewed by Starstriker

Grubbs Grady thinks of himself as any ordinary teenager, until one night when he first encounters demons and the demon-master Lord Loss. When Grubbs goes to live with his mysterious Uncle Dervish, he tries to forget about the nightmare he witnessed, but now animal corpses are found, and while Grubbs and his new friend Bill-E try to figure out what was behind the attacks, Dervish is acting in a funny way and Grubbs suspects it has somethings to do with the Grady's family curse...

Reader reviewed by Kevin O' Rafferty

I just read this book and just from the first two chapters I thought "WOW". I am a big fan of books like this, well I am now, and it is hard to find this sorta book. I cant belive that Darren Shan went from not to violent books about vampires, to gory as hell demon books.

The storyline is spectacular and the descriptons are done amazingly well.

Reader reviewed by Mary

There's demons. Magic. An ancient curse. And chess. Grubbs Grady has been taught chess since a very young age. He's never wondered why. But, unfortunately for him, the answer is going to alter his life forever. One day he enters his home to discover the place in ruins. His mom, dad and sister dead. Soon he finds himself tossed into a world where magic is real, demons want to kill you and a curse hovering over his shoulder. Darren Shans prose is filled with gruesome details and every page is filled with action. Theres never a dull moment in this particular novel.

Reader reviewed by Lady_Shadows

There are a lot of people who love to play chess; there are others who live to play the game. Grubb Gradys family lived to play chess, they played everyday. It was sort of a family obsession, or so Grubbs thought, until one horrible night when his worst nightmare came true. His parents and his sister had left him at a relatives house while they went to go see a ballet, figuring his parents had lied, he snuck out of the relatives house and started heading towards his own. Sure enough when he got home the car was in the driveway and the goriest sight imaginable awaited him inside.

He spent many months in a mental institute after that night. After a while his uncle came to take him to a new home. Grubbs made friends with a boy named Billy almost immediately. Life grew easier for Grubbs, calmer. One day, Grubbs and Billy were rifling through Grubbs uncles desk when they found a book, full of picture of family members who died young. Along with that book was another, which spoke of Werewolves and the transformation of people to them.

After a while Billy and Grubbs started following the uncle on his morning jogs, watching as he would pick up animal carcasses along the way. By then Billy was convinced that the uncle was a werewolf, although Grubbs was not as sure. Could the uncle really be a werewolf?

Lord Loss was an interesting book, very gory but otherwise very good. This book was written by Darren Shan, who is my personal favorite. I would not recommend this book to kids under the age of 12& only because the gory is very bad. I am sure that if you like this book you will love Demon Thief. 