Chapter Three: The Shopping Trip
Sunday afternoon in Leamington Spa had that particular quality of stretched, aimless time that made everyone feel like they should be doing something productive while absolutely refusing to do it. The streets were busy with the usual weekend crowd—families with reluctant children, couples holding hands, groups of students pretending to study in coffee shops.
The Demon Hunting Squad—or rather, a carefully curated subset thereof—was gathered on
Chapter 15: The Irreversible Trade
The world had narrowed to a single, splintering point of wood and a scream that was not a sound, but a force tearing its way out of Justin’s lungs.
“SAM!”
The name was a battering ram. The flimsy bathroom lock, never designed to withstand the focused, panicked fury of a varsity athlete, shattered. The door exploded inward, slamming against the tiled wall with a crack that echoed like a gunshot in the small, steam-fogged room.
And then,
A grumpy hedge knight desperate for a squire buys a blind stable boy for three years' wages. He expected useless. He got a boy who can hear lies in a man's voice, calm any horse with a touch, and navigate by sounds others miss. Now they're marching to crusade, surrounded by enemies who'd destroy them—if the magic rising in the East doesn't kill them first.
i have a healthy disdain for the creatures
Pretty to look at, but no way in hell would I go near one... yikes that'd be bad for my heart, I'd never be able to keep up. I tend to prefer Middle aged nerds these days, with accountancy degrees, a volvo, and wield Dork as a lifestyle choice.
GIRLHOTSKIRT :: grins :: oh man she's a treat and a half for later.
And yes this book gets the right note of chaos that I like in one my my off the wall absurdist books. Book one sets the world, this one takes it on a joyride of bonkers.
I trundle through it regularly, the bridge in the background is how I get to the train station on Friday's while sipping a cup of coffee and dodging teenagers
Charlie has an arc over the books, where he grows up a lot. He's genuinely sorry for who he was, and Taine's a good big brother for him. He is quite taken with philosophy, and less of a dick. Though he and Tyler have some issues Because it wouldn't be fun without some kind of friction.
Charlie has just boarded a roller coaster of fun and dramatically heightened hormones... he's in for a ride.
and fixed my demon's name back to Lynix, as it should be.
Chapter Two: The Incubus in the Tea Room
Sunday morning dawned grey and reluctant over Leamington Spa, as if the weather itself was still recovering from the previous night's chaos.
In the Hartley kitchen, the situation had... stabilized. Sort of.
Simon was still tied to the chair, though the ropes had been loosened to something more symbolic than practical. He'd stopped trying to launch himself at Matt approximately four hours ago, around the
Six months after surviving a demonic body swap, the squad is back—and Leamington Spa has a love problem. When a coven of witches accidentally fuses with a succubus, their broken spell unleashes chaos: a Deliveroo driver turned Regency suitor, a wrestler feeding grapes to the wrong boyfriend, and two Charlies fighting their own impossible attraction. Now the demon hunting squad must stop the Love Eternal Project before the whole town drowns in romance. Featuring cursed love potions, extremely polite demonic possessions, and the most awkward school day ever.
Chapter One: The Incident at the Royal Pump Rooms
Six months.
It had been six months since Taine had traded his immortality for a teenager's life, six months since Tyler had given up his family's protection pendant, six months since the Hartley kitchen had become the unofficial headquarters of Leamington Spa's only (and thoroughly unqualified) demon hunting squad.
Six months of chaos. Six months of takeaway containers. Six months of Matt enthusiastically categorizing every
This is the horror of a thing like this. I always loathe the type of reality show that relies on the ignorance of their participants, the ones that are designed to humiliate and belittle people. I Am not a proponent of Reality TV as a whole, i think it's insidious, and it's only a matter of time till someone starts to apply this formula without consent.