Book 4, Duel Nature: The Demon Accords

Take it from someone who read 200+ paranormal fantsy books, this series is seriously amazing. If you read any paranormal fiction before and at least found it OK, just trust me and try this series. You won't be dissapointet.

I read the first book in The Demon Accords series and enjoyed every minute of it. The characters are well developed, the story is intricate without being complicated. It was a fun read. After I read the first book I quickly bought the second, then I thought "Who am I kidding?" and went ahead and just bought them all! After I finished the series I bought Black Frost. I anxiously await the next book from John Conroe.

Like the other books in the series, this one makes little effort to challenge the reader, but that's not its purpose.

This is sort of the literary version of a combat-based adventure game. You're kept nominally involved with the main character by various simple devices, just enough to identify yourself with him. Then, when you're feeling that by turning the page you're in some way driving his actions, he goes on a ridiculously over-powered series of curb-stomp battles against basically everyone that's been so much as mildly rude to him in passing, then goes home to his billion-dollar mansion to hang with the superpowered ninja servants (whom, of course, he can also beat up in accordance with the law of conservation of ninjitsu) and sleep with his superintelligent supermodel girlfriend who is absolutely 100% dedicated to him in every way.

Basically, think Kvothe from the Kingkiller books, but without the layers of irony and self-analysis or the implication of the unreliable narrator. He's just a level 30 character kicking around in a level 3 world, and it's surprisingly entertaining.

I love the Demon Accords. Its got its believability problems, but I really enjoy the ride.

Or at least I did until the end of Duel Nature.

Spoiler Alert.

But having finished Duel Nature, I have to ask what kind of man, much less superhero (which is what Chris has essentially become) has a underage girl die right in front of him and doesn't care.

He objects to the vampire feeding on her, she dies and HE DOESN'T CARE!!! Three paragraphs later, the story has moved on and he doesn't waste a single instant thinking about this girl until the end of the book. Whats worse he immediately focuses on vampire politics, despite having learned that he can dust an Elder vamp incredibly easily.

If I saw a little girl killed in front of me, I would not be ok with it. The person who killed the girl should die and there is an end to it. Anyone who has a problem with that can join the first guy in hell. That is the only right response I can imagine to that scenario.

I will read the next book because I have loved the Demon Accords so far and I'm will to give Conroe a chance to redeem his character. But Chris will have to earn back my respect and pretty quickly.

this first book in this series had promise once the little quicks of being self published got sorted out. So I bought the next 2 books as a block for some light reading... the characters have become paper thin, all woman have become mindless stereotypes and the author has created the rare feat of a character being annoying and unsympathetic while being written in the first person... I wish I had stopped at the first but I'm going to be a little more wary from no on about reading self published books

This is another great book in the series.
They just keep getting better.
The ending made me start searching for the publish date for the next one.

I highly recommend the series. Engaging characters and a story that almost demands you read it straight through.

This is another great book in the series.
They just keep getting better.
The ending made me start searching for the publish date for the next one.

I highly recommend the series. Engaging characters and a story that almost demands you read it straight through.