![]() At the same time, Gran makes these occurrences intentionally banal to make the reader question all the times they've acted out of character, shrugged off an unexplained noise in their home, spotted things out of the corner of their eye that seemed to vanish as soon as they were noticed. I face-palmed every time she rationalized or laughed off an odd occurrence that clearly spelled D-E-M-O-N to the reader. In Gran’s novel, the first-person aspect is both refreshing and deeply moving. Once past the point of no return, the victim is forced to share his/her body with an evil entity, watch all the hope and happiness of his/her old life slip irrevocably away, and accept the consequences of unspeakable actions committed by the entity that's decided to stake its claim on him/her. Like the weeping angels in the Doctor Who episode "Blink," human-possessing demons rob you of your life and yourself without technically killing you. Once any connections are made to possession, the victim is pretty much screwed.Īnd it's not that you've been eaten or beaten or gnawed on or had "boo" whispered in your ear. ![]() ![]() It starts off subtly enough, its symptoms innocuous or vague enough to be explained away by a plethora of alternative causes. ![]() Zombies are slow (unless they're RAGE infected, but I figure you'd get used to having to fight even those suckers off after a while), vampires can be dispatched with garlic and pointy wood. ![]() As I've mentioned elsewhere, ghosts are essentially harmless. ![]()
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