Very dark and very interesting. ( )

For years, Blake Rossi was the chief exorcist for the Catholic Church. Then a 6 year old died during an exorcism, and he found himself excommunicated and out in the cold. He drowns his misery and guilt in alcohol, drifting from one meaningless job to the next, unable to pay the rent and demon haunted. So when old friend Gregor Balfor comes calling to try and convince Rossi he needs to take up his old profession again, he’s against it. But events wear him down- an old woman needs help because her father captured a demon many years before and now the demon is on the loose- and he finds himself joining Balfor and Balfor’s allies fighting a high level demon- a demon knight.

I liked the characters, and hope White develops them more as the series goes on- yes, it’s the first of a series. I want to know about Balfor’s group, and especially more about Lilith. The story was slow to get started, but I suspect (and hope) that, without having to create backstory, the 2nd will take right off. Four stars. ( )

I had the strangest sense of deja vu when I was reading this book. I've never read it before, but it seemed so familiar to me that I actually looked back at other books I've read to see if it was similar to one of them. I did find one that was relatively similar so that must have been what triggered it.

Having said that, it was a decent book. It was well written, well edited, and the characters were somewhat developed. I'm assuming that in the rest of the series that character development will be fleshed out since it's their pasts that are only touched on and partially revealed as surprises that didn't really seem all that surprising given the hints throughout the book.

It's not a book that grabs you and pulls you in until you finish it. I actually put it down for several days and had no desire to rush back to it in order to find out what would happen next. It doesn't engender that feeling. I've received the second book in the series and will read it, but it's more because I requested it and won it than out of a sense of curiosity about what's next.

Other people may find it intriguing and absolutely love it but for me it was simply okay. ( )