Rachael comes home, aged sixteen, to find that her middle-
aged father is aging fast. He could be eighty. The
doctors are baffled. But Rachael knows more. A demon is
searching for a staff of some kind, and if she doesn't help
him find this object of power, she'll end up like her
father. A boy called Lock shows up, who has a better grip
on matters, and he has to find the staff as well to remove
a punishment. His type of being is not allowed into
Heaven, but if he finds the staff he can reach the Third
Level. Rachael doesn't know what's best to do. A year of
trying exorcism didn't help her father, and there is no
guarantee that Lock can do any better for her.
MY DEMONIC GHOST is a complicated story, because Lock first
saves Rachael from a monstrous troll, then sets out the
hierarchies and rules and types of spectral beings, from
banished souls (who have killed themselves or others) such
as himself, to Royals who are parasitic and can drain other
beings. There are Goons and Hunters, and spectrals use
people like Rachael and her father to hide in, calling them
Hosts. There is a lot of horror-type imagery, from a
Hunter called Gargoyle, to graveyards and someone
with 'rotting wrinkles', to a man who can paralyse Rachael
and stroke her face with icy hands, sending her to
oblivion.
Someone who enjoys horrors would get a lot more out of this
tale than I would, and from reading a few passages aloud I
think it would be a splendid read to a group in a darkened
room on Halloween. If you like this genre give Jacinta
Maree's book MY DEMONIC GHOST a try.
Rachael has traveled to Whitehaven to visit her father, a
trek she can not help but dread given his recent descent
into madness. Upon her arrival she realizes his
deterioration has not only been mental, it's been physical
as well. His death comes as no surprise, but what she
discovers soon after, is shocking when his burden becomes
hers.
Lock is a banished spirit who must attach himself to a human
host in order to hide from those who would drag him back to
hell to be destroyed. When he meets Rachael he finds more
than a host, he finds an ally.
Together they must defeat each of the seven sins in order to
guarantee Lock's safe passage into the Third Realm, a
loophole in creation that would allow him to escape hell and
have peace at long last. Through their unlikely friendship,
other banished spirits flock to them in hopes of a peace
they hadn't dreamt possible.
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