The Demon's Surrender Book

Before I start my review I would strongly recommend that you read the first two books in this trilogy (The Demons Lexicon and The Demons Covenant). Not just because there is no point reading the last book in a trilogy without reading the first two but because the whole series is an excellent read. The characters are sharply drawn, distinct people that I really felt could walk right off the page and the plots are smart, twisty and surprising with humour that made me laugh out loud.

Each book is told from the viewpoint of a different character and, for me, that works giving a rounded three-dimensional view of proceedings throughout. The third book (The Demon's Surrender) is told from the viewpoint of Sin a dancer in the Goblin Market. I had met Sin in the previous books but I always found her to be a secondary character, someone for the main characters to interact with while the story unfolded around them. To be honest, I never really felt much love towards Sin. She wasn't someone I thought I would be friends with if I met her in real life (something I don't think she'd have been too broken up about).

But then I read The Demons Surrender and got to know Sin and how she views the world/s she has to live in and what she has to do to survive and protect the things and people she cares about. By the time I reached the end of the book Sin had grown into one hell of a main character and someone whose place in the story could not be more obvious or more important. This book changed the way I thought about someone and it did it without me even noticing until I closed the book at the end.

As the last book in the trilogy this is necessarily a darker book with twists and turns throughout. Just when I thought I'd figured out what was going to happen everything changed again. I loved it. If you want a clever plot with sharp, spiky humour and characters that will surprise you then this could be the book/series for you.

Demon's Surrender : Paperback : Simon & Schuster Ltd : 9781847382917 : 1847382916 : 09 Jun 2011 : The final and thrilling novel in this urban fantasy about magicians and demons.