Alex's Blog Post Week 5

Title: Demon Theif
Author: Darren Shan
Pages Read: 250/250
Genre: Horror, Adventure, Mystery

The second title of the Demonata Series, and takes place with a different protagonist named Kernal Fleck. I found that in this book it goes more into the mind of the protagonist and others, and describes the characters a bit more. Instead of just writing about fear and gory violence, Darren writes about what the characters think in every moment, save a few characters; Lord Loss is described in a lot more detail, and objects generally have more meaning. I think Darren got criticism about his first book being mindless violence, or he just wanted to start the series with an explosion. Either way, the summary is next.

Kernal is a normal by with the exception of being able to see "the lights", which are little bits of light that float around him and only he can see them. One day, he decides to put these lights together as he sees a jigsaw puzzle. In the end, he ends up making a glowing rectangle which, inadvertently, is a portal to Lord Loss. Lord Loss hypnotizes him into a magical slumber. He goes through the portal and then the intro stops. Kernal wakes to see his family in a state of distraught and all he remembers is that he woke up with his baby brother, who hasn't been mentioned in the introduction of his character. He loves his brother and his parents confuse him as they have never seen this baby before and yet Kernal thinks the baby has always been with them. In the end, they can't find the baby's true family and let him stay.
A week later, during class, a portal starts forming IN the teacher and makes her explode into fragments. The children of the class scream, and Kernal passes out. He wakes up to see several students killed and torn apart by a demon, who is seen taking his "brother" and back into the portal. Not wanting to lose his brother, Kernal runs after the demon through the portal just as it closes, and he wakes up in a weird world where bamboo is a sentient being trying to kill him. Before it does, some magic guys break him free from the plant and saves him. They introduce themselves as Disciples, which are basically guys who kill demons and make sure they don't enter the human world. They explain that demons live in the Demonata world, which is basically an infinite amount of worlds all