Author: Andrew Pyper
Year Released: 2014
Grade: C
What first starts out as a terrifying journey of one man trying to save his daughter from the clutches of unspeakable evil, quickly dissolves into a boring ride filled with too many religious references.
The novel follows a college professor who specializes in the "Revelations" section of the Bible and certain passages within. He gets invited to Italy to witness something phenomenal by a tall, creepy thin woman who may or may not be a harbinger of impending doom. He reluctantly brings along his daughter and after witnessing said phenomenon, his daughter is taken away and possessed by some demonic force. Maybe the devil himself. The professor then goes on a journey to find her, aided in part by one of his colleagues.
Reading the cover and backside of this book at first, made me think that I was going to be in for a terrifying ride. Boy, leave it to me to screw up and judge a book by its cover. While starting off on a pretty scary note, I quickly became bored. There are a couple of jolts of horror along the way, but not much else. I didn't quite get the ending as well and am confused to what actually happened to the characters at the end.
There is another of Andrew Pyper's books that I want to read (Lost Girls) and that novel has the distinction of being one of the scariest stories ever written. I am hoping that one lives up to its moniker, because The Demonologist certainly didn't
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