Running with the Demon by Terry Brooks

Running with the Demon...Where do I Start? Okay...Running with the Demon was overall excellent. But what I loved was the detail. Personally I am one who likes to really get to know the characters. If you don’t know the characters, there’s no point in the story. You have to be able to feel what there feeling and Terry Brooks does an excellent job. I found myself envisioning and feeling everything Nest Freemark was. Although sometimes I would have personally done differently in her situation I really could feel exactly what was happening. Nest truly was a teenage girl thrown into a situation and rested as such. It wasn’t corny at all.

This book was amazing and completely real. And in a way, after reading this book I realized that in one form or another, humans truly are running with the demons.

I for one personally enjoyed Running with the Demon. Most of teachers were rather surprised I was reading something that looked a bit on the long side. Being only fifteen I found Terry Brooks' work most enjoyable. It was one of those books that no matter what you couldn't put it down even if you had wanted to. It's on my summer reading list and during the beginning of my second semester at school we were to choose a book from the reading list and do a project on it. I chose Running with the Demon. It was an awesome book and I recomend it to anyone who likes fantasy/horror/suspense stories. Two thumbs up!

This is a trilogy that starts off great, ends off even greater, but has a terrible middle. Running with the Demon is a terrific modern fantasy/horror novel that combines elements of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and older Terry Brooks. A Knight of the Word, however, is dull, dreary, depressing, simplistic, and extraordinarily predictable. Anyone with half a brain would pick out the demon within two lines of the character's introduction, despite the author's attempts to lure us away from the obvious; an ultimately unsatisfying novel. Angel Fire East, however, rekindles all the goodness of the first book, and more. With great characters, nasty villains, and a splendid plot, it is the best of the trilogy, and ends off the series quite well. If only the second book could be skipped somehow. It was a miracle I even wanted to read the third one after that. It's almost as if someone else wrote the thing.