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Jul 31, 2008
Julie (jjmachshev)
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OK. Well, let's see if I can find something positive to say about this book. Ummm, hmmm, oh yeah! The dog is hilarious and the cover is kind of cute. That's it. Now I'll try to explain why I didn't like or enjoy this book.
I don't mind occasionally suspending reality. I do mind a total absence of reality, page after page after page. The entire story takes place in 3 or 4 days and in that time span, the heroine does a 180 on every character trait and behavior. Uh, huh. The sex More...
I don't mind occasionally suspending reality. I do mind a total absence of reality, page after page after page. The entire story takes place in 3 or 4 days and in that time span, the heroine does a 180 on every character trait and behavior. Uh, huh. The sex More...
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Jul 07, 2008
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Newly anointed with demon-fighting powers and suddenly able to hear the thoughts of her hilarious Jack Russell terrier, a preschool teacher finds a whole new world of dark and dangerous, including a sexy shape-shifting griffin she’s not entirely sure she can trust.
Yes, I'm a dork for adding my own book to my shelf, but it was a blast to write and I'm just so glad to have had the opportunity.
Yes, I'm a dork for adding my own book to my shelf, but it was a blast to write and I'm just so glad to have had the opportunity.
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Aug 26, 2009
Bet
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While I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I found myself not itching to pick it up to read it. The storyline is great...organized, accountable, boring Lizzie finds out she is a slayer of demons from her Harley riding grandmother after she unexpectedly shows up at the same time that a menacing demon arises from Lizzie's toilet (that's what I said...toilet). Then Grandma proceeds to take Lizzie on the ride of her life with the other "biker witches" and one sexy griffin and, we can't forget
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Aug 15, 2008
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Jul 25, 2008
Kim
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Note: this book is due out in August. I received an ARC.
There's a lot to like in this tale of a mild-mannered preschool teacher who finds out, on her thirtieth birthday, that she is a demon-hunter. First the grandmother she never met shows up on Lizzie's doorstep, then she has a near fatal encounter with a demon, and oh yeah, her terrier Pirate begins to talk. Soon Lizzie finds herself training to slay demons, hanging out with geriatric biker witches and werewolves, and getting involved More...
There's a lot to like in this tale of a mild-mannered preschool teacher who finds out, on her thirtieth birthday, that she is a demon-hunter. First the grandmother she never met shows up on Lizzie's doorstep, then she has a near fatal encounter with a demon, and oh yeah, her terrier Pirate begins to talk. Soon Lizzie finds herself training to slay demons, hanging out with geriatric biker witches and werewolves, and getting involved More...
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Aug 20, 2008
Judi
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I was lucky enough to win an ARC of this book by ANGIE FOX, and am I ever happy that I did! I believe that this is a debut novel from this author, and she comes into the paranormal romance writing arena with a bang.
This story is so chock full of wonderful, quirky, funny, sexy and scary characters that come to life and the wacky roller-coaster ride goes from start to finish. I LOVED it and hope that there will be more books about Lizzie, Dimitri, and Pirate along with all the other li More...
This story is so chock full of wonderful, quirky, funny, sexy and scary characters that come to life and the wacky roller-coaster ride goes from start to finish. I LOVED it and hope that there will be more books about Lizzie, Dimitri, and Pirate along with all the other li More...
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Oct 21, 2008
Michelle
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I'm only on page 125 and am already bored out of my mind. Since page one, crazy stuff has happened and nobody has bothered to explain what, and why, and how, and whatever. And the protaganist is okay with this? I'm sorry, but if a crazy ass biker woman, claiming to be my grandmother, traps me in my own bathroom and starts saying some weird stuff about it "being time soon", which ends with me feeling hazy and tired, and a demon suddenly appears on my toilet to kill me... I don't think I
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Nov 10, 2008
Rebecca
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Ok, this was a cute book. Nothing earth-shattering or such but I managed to finish it before my plane reached Dallas (5 hours).
I would have only given it three stars but Grandma and her spell jars were just too funny!
It's a great light read when you need to smooth the palate a bit. I'm interested in seeing if she continues with this one.
Oh, and those worried it mirrored another series with a talking dog....don't, this story kept the dog a dog, our heroi More...
I would have only given it three stars but Grandma and her spell jars were just too funny!
It's a great light read when you need to smooth the palate a bit. I'm interested in seeing if she continues with this one.
Oh, and those worried it mirrored another series with a talking dog....don't, this story kept the dog a dog, our heroi More...
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Jul 07, 2010
Allison
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Okay so I read this book for one of my bookclub reads for October. It was a fun and easy read. It was a bit silly in places, but what would you expect from a book titled The Accidental Demon Slayer. Despite that though, I really liked it. It was very funny and I love it when a book makes me laugh out loud and this one did. It had some romance, humor, action, etc. A little bit of everything basically. I normally don't even venture to the romance section of my happy place, ie: Barnes & Nob
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Jan 28, 2012
Joel
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I had to stop reading about half way through this book. Lizzie (the main character) fights with everyone. There's a maybe-good-maybe-bad tall-dark-and-handsome sort; she fights with him. She has plenty of enemies; she fights with them. She even fights with her allies. Constantly. She tries to kill her one of her mothers friends over nothing. There's only one guy, an old wheelchair bound witch, that she doesn't fight with. But she only talks to him for two minutes. I did not find her likabl
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Nov 25, 2011
Turtles
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I stopped reading this in ch 14 which is a good 3/4 of the way through. It started out ok, the heroine, Lizzie, gets shoved in her bathroom by her previously unknown biker witch grandma while she comes into her demon slayer powers. A little demon pops up in her toilet and after Lizzie takes care of it the crap has hit the fan, they have to escape with her (now) talking dog on Grandma's pink Harley. They encounter the hero in Griffin form, Dimitri, in the midst of being attacked by Pixies and Gra
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Oct 10, 2011
Anita
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From my Colorado Springs GAZETTE book column:
Traditional forms of romance do little for me, just ask my husband. After nearly 20 years of marriage he knows to skip roses, candlelight dinners and epic cinematic love stories. Instead, he woos me with baby evergreens, homemade pizza and taped episodes of The Office.
Despite my warped sense of romance, I decided to brave the Romance aisle at Barnes and Noble. There’s a huge population of readers who love book covers featuring More...
Traditional forms of romance do little for me, just ask my husband. After nearly 20 years of marriage he knows to skip roses, candlelight dinners and epic cinematic love stories. Instead, he woos me with baby evergreens, homemade pizza and taped episodes of The Office.
Despite my warped sense of romance, I decided to brave the Romance aisle at Barnes and Noble. There’s a huge population of readers who love book covers featuring More...
Jan 01, 2011
Doug
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Like John Connolly's The Gates, The Accidental Demon Slayer made me think a lot about my preferred ratio of novelty and familiarity in straightforward escapist genre fiction. The Accidental Demon Slayer's mix is a bit too calculated for my taste -- Lizzie's struggle with her suddenly revealed identity as a chosen "slayer" and its accompanying unfamiliar powers seems to owe more than a small debt to a certain Joss Whedon-helmed franchise, while the target reader-identification demograph
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Dec 12, 2010
On her 30th birthday, Lizzie Brown is visited by the grandmother she has never met, her dog Pirate starts talking and she is attacked by a demon. In The Accidental Demon Slayer by Angie Fox, Lizzie is a lists and planning preschool teacher who was raised by adoptive parents. When her Harley riding grandmother shows up with foul smelling jars and Lizzie is attacked by a demon, who she manages to banish, Lizzie is shocked to find herself on the road without a plan. Prior to this, the only sponta
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Oct 01, 2010
Mrs. Missive
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Light, funny, with an early Evanovich style cast of characters.
I found it hilarious that our heroine, Lizzie, is turning 30 just like I am. And instead of going to her 30th Bday party she gets invaded by her Biker Grandmother, finds out she is a legendary demon slayer, and gets attacked by a demon, in the span of a few minutes. And if that's not enough for the poor pre-school teacher to wrap her head around, her dog starts talking to her.
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I found it hilarious that our heroine, Lizzie, is turning 30 just like I am. And instead of going to her 30th Bday party she gets invaded by her Biker Grandmother, finds out she is a legendary demon slayer, and gets attacked by a demon, in the span of a few minutes. And if that's not enough for the poor pre-school teacher to wrap her head around, her dog starts talking to her.
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Sep 16, 2010
GoldenjoyBazyll
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For those of you who know me well.... you are aware that "Charmed" wanna-be type reads.
This one was ok but leaned towards absurd (of course they all do). I guess I should say silly is what it was. Here is the story line... Lizzy was adpoted as a baby by a fairly straigh laced family. She is now a grown woman and has embarked on a career as a preschool teacher at the Happy Hands Preschool. While she hasn't had a date in awhile... she is a happy camper. it is now her More...
This one was ok but leaned towards absurd (of course they all do). I guess I should say silly is what it was. Here is the story line... Lizzy was adpoted as a baby by a fairly straigh laced family. She is now a grown woman and has embarked on a career as a preschool teacher at the Happy Hands Preschool. While she hasn't had a date in awhile... she is a happy camper. it is now her More...
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Jan 15, 2010
Ellz
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My thoughts...Whooo Baby. I bought these books a while back and since I am hosting the Bottom's Up challenge, I decided they were a great place to start. Plus, Angie is coming to do an interview in February to celebrate the release of the third book in the series. So, I don't know why I waited so long to read this, I loved it!
So let me start with the characters. The Biker Witch gang, which is led by her long-lost Grandmother, made me laugh through the whole entire book! They are More...
So let me start with the characters. The Biker Witch gang, which is led by her long-lost Grandmother, made me laugh through the whole entire book! They are More...
Nov 12, 2009
BarkLessWagMore
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Lizzie, a young school teacher discovers she's from a line of witches and that she's the latest "demon slayer" and has a destiny she's never known about. One minutes she's teaching little kids, the next her little doggie is talking to her and she's plopped on a Harley with a grandma she's only known for minutes and is expected to slay demons with next to no training and, of course, there's a hunky guy thrown in to save the day.
This book started out cutesy enough but devolved More...
This book started out cutesy enough but devolved More...
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May 27, 2011
1.5 stars
I did not like this book. At all. It was dumb and ridiculous and I just did not enjoy it at all. I did not like Lizzie, Dimitri was a disappointment, and Pirate, the talking dog, was the only character that I actually enjoyed.
Lizzie was a hypocritical, selfish bitch. She was constantly calling people selfish jerks (a.k.a. Dimitri); the whole time he was doing this all to save his twin sisters and their souls while Lizzie was whining about how she neve More...
I did not like this book. At all. It was dumb and ridiculous and I just did not enjoy it at all. I did not like Lizzie, Dimitri was a disappointment, and Pirate, the talking dog, was the only character that I actually enjoyed.
Lizzie was a hypocritical, selfish bitch. She was constantly calling people selfish jerks (a.k.a. Dimitri); the whole time he was doing this all to save his twin sisters and their souls while Lizzie was whining about how she neve More...
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Jan 20, 2009
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Jan 09, 2009
Tracy
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I really wanted to LOVE this book. Instead, I only liked it. It started out with a bang, think Grandma Mazur on a Harley, but I grew frustrated while reading it.
From what I could tell, the story takes place over 72 hours or so - 3 action packed days and nights. The main character, Lizzie, gets a surprise by her Grandmother riding in on a pink Harley Davidson with flames on the day of her 30th birthday. Up until that moment, Lizzie did not know that she had a grandmother, yet 18 More...
From what I could tell, the story takes place over 72 hours or so - 3 action packed days and nights. The main character, Lizzie, gets a surprise by her Grandmother riding in on a pink Harley Davidson with flames on the day of her 30th birthday. Up until that moment, Lizzie did not know that she had a grandmother, yet 18 More...
Nov 17, 2011
gigi
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Here is what Goodreads says about the Accidental Demon Slayer:
Newly anointed with demon-fighting powers and suddenly able to hear the thoughts of her hilarious Jack Russell terrier, a preschool teacher finds a whole new world of dark and dangerous, including a sexy shape-shifting griffin she's not entirely sure she can trust
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I really really liked this book and if your a fan of Maryjanice Davidson's Undead series then you will like this book just More...
Newly anointed with demon-fighting powers and suddenly able to hear the thoughts of her hilarious Jack Russell terrier, a preschool teacher finds a whole new world of dark and dangerous, including a sexy shape-shifting griffin she's not entirely sure she can trust
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I really really liked this book and if your a fan of Maryjanice Davidson's Undead series then you will like this book just More...
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Jun 12, 2011
Met the author during yesterday's book cruise and started reading the first in her series today -
need to go back and start at different time - have put it down too long to just pick back up
need to go back and start at different time - have put it down too long to just pick back up
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Nov 18, 2011
Rosezetta
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Ok, I had a love/dislike relationship with this book. Lizzie got on my last nerve. I get she got thrown into this situation with no training, no idea of what she was doing, and rarely of what was really going on. But come on, she's thirty not thirteen, she was a little to naive for me. And she stays in her head way too much. I don't think Lizzie developed as much as she should have.
It seems to me that grandma is a little to free. I think Ant Eater was my favorite character.
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It seems to me that grandma is a little to free. I think Ant Eater was my favorite character.
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Aug 18, 2011
Seduced
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Ok, I have to do these reviews together, because I snagged these up at a sale, and blew through them all in one weekend, so it was like one big fun book all together.
The story line was a little reminiscent of Katie MacAlister’s Aisling Grey series, which I LOVE. Our poor girl, gets sucked into a world she didn’t know anything about, her dog starts talking and she has a gorgeous shifter. Fox definitely kept it fun.
In Book 1, Fox tosses you right into Lizzie, and the crazin More...
The story line was a little reminiscent of Katie MacAlister’s Aisling Grey series, which I LOVE. Our poor girl, gets sucked into a world she didn’t know anything about, her dog starts talking and she has a gorgeous shifter. Fox definitely kept it fun.
In Book 1, Fox tosses you right into Lizzie, and the crazin More...
Apr 12, 2011
Witchmag
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The story starts promising, with our heroine discovering that she has special powers. No problem with the story so far. She has an interesting grandma. Never seen someone like her, so that's a plus. But after her first demon fight it became harder to continue reading.... I tried to read on, but had to stop. The dog was just plain annoying. I know jack russels can be very hyper and not the best listeners. But this was a little too much.
And our heroine? In the end she just follows somebody More...
And our heroine? In the end she just follows somebody More...
Mar 11, 2010
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Aug 30, 2008
Jen
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This was a decent book. It had way to much build up explaining what was going on. Everything was big secret that had to be REVEALED. I kept wanting to say =Get to the point already!
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Apr 28, 2011
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May 18, 2011
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I really enjoyed this book! This is an author I will look for in the future. You quickly become wrapped up in Lizzie Brown's life. As she is rapidly finds everything she thought she knew as fact to be changing into something else. Point of fact, demons are attacking and her dog starts talking to her.
The writing is tight and involving, while remaining humorous. The characters quickly become more than two dimensional and you begin to feel as if you know them.
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The writing is tight and involving, while remaining humorous. The characters quickly become more than two dimensional and you begin to feel as if you know them.
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