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T.E.S.
TEACHER
- reviewed by
David Buckley |
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Darren Shan
acquired a loyal
fan base
in
primary schools
with his 12-book
cycle The
Saga of Darren
Shan. Demon
Thief is
the second
volume in his
new
series for older
readers, The
Demonata,
which began with
Lord Loss.
Kernel Fleck,
14, bald since
birth, feels
like a freak and
lives a lonely
life with his
parents and baby
brother, Art. He
has
always seen
patches of light
no one else
can see. When a
demon steps out
of one
of these
patches,
slaughters the
village
schoolchildren
and disappears
with
baby Art, Kernel
pursues him into
the
demon universe.
The violence in
Demon Thief
is
graphic but
playful. Shan's
demonfighters
spend so much
time keeping
their balance on
the squashed
entrails of
dismembered
monsters that
you'd think the
author would
have given them
special boots.
Young teenage
boys will love
it, and slither
delightfully
with the hero in
bucketloads of
"blood, mucous
and all sorts of
slime", like
kids on CBeebies
wallowing in
Day-Glo gunk. |
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