Kernel Fleck sees lights--strange, multicolored patches of light. It's not until a window opens into a demon world, with horrific consequences, that Kernel discovers his powers. As a Disciple, his mission is to hunt vicious, powerful demons to the death in this follow-up to "Lord Loss."
This book was amazing. I really wanted to read the third one. ( )

This is a book everyone will love. Theres Death, Blood, and ALOT of fighting. This is a fictional book. A Boy discovers he has magical powers. He meets other people and travels to other universities on a mission.
T.E.

i just started this book last night, but i already know i'll like it. i have read the first book and loved it and also it helps that i'm a huge fan of the author Darren Shan (read the Darren shan saga [more know as the cirque du freak series]. so i have my expectations already waiting to be fulfilled by this book ( )

Demon Thief is the gruesome second book in Darren Shan’s horror series The Demonata. Set around thirty years before the start of the first book, Lord Loss, it provides a fresh new tale with some new characters and a new narrator, but a few familiar faces crop up as well, both humans and demons. As a sequel, it equals but does not surpass Lord Loss. The two books are interesting to compare – Shan has used a somewhat different set of skills to write Demon Thief, making it more of an emotional, suspenseful and mysterious novel, while Lord Loss was more of a high-tension, run-for-your-life-type book.

Demon Thief is easily the goriest book I have ever read. This is a book to be kept away from the church at all costs if anyone ever hopes to read it again. Blood, guts and vomit flow profusely from a world where demons rip people’s heads off and dig into their brains. Despite all this, however, the gore in Demon Thief could not be described as gratuitous. Shan has created a horrible world, inhabited by creatures without feeling or reason, and every bit of the violence in this book is entirely justified. Where some authors would censor the more bloody moments, sacrificing a bit of realism to stay within the bounds of what would generally be considered a ‘children’s book’, Shan does not. He extends a friendly hand to the reader, saying, “What I am about to show you is terrible and gruesome, but I think you’re tough enough to handle it.” An unspoken compliment like this means more to a child than most people appreciate.

The gore in Demon Thief is accompanied by some of the miserable principles recognisable from Shan’s original series – he does not protect important characters, and sometimes things can never go back to the happy way they were at the beginning of the story. The result, as usual, is a novel that’s bloody, miserable, twisted and heartbreaking – but brilliant.

Demon Thief is an achievement not to be missed, a wicked, unpredictable journey with plot twists that will have readers guessing right to the end. Highly recommended for any teenager, (except the squeamish ones!) ( )