The Demonata is the second full-length Fantasy Horror series by Irish author Darren
O' Shaughnessy Shan.
Unlike
The Saga, this series has three narrators, with different books told from different perspectives.
The plot features far too many twists to be quickly summarised, but it starts with our first narrator, perfectly normal Teenager Grubbs Grady in a perfectly normal town, long story short, some Demon related stuff happens and... things go bad.
Really bad. And then they
get worse. And worse. And worse. After which, things really start to get nasty.
This series provides examples of:
- Anyone Can Die: And how!
- Always Chaotic Evil: Demons, all the way.
- Bald Of Awesome: Kernel Fleck.
- Bald Of Evil: Lord Loss
- Blessed With Suck: Kernel has always been able to see patches of light floating around, and can use them to create interdimensional demon portals. On one hand, it gave him his little brother, Art.. On the other hand...having anything to do with demons in this world will not end well for you.
- Bloody Bowels Of Hell
- Cavalier Competitor
- Cute Mute: Bran
- Complete Monster: The Demonata are an entire race of Complete Monsters, but Lord Loss really takes the cake, horrifically mutilates the cake, and eats its children.
- Crapsack World: All the demon realms.
- Crowning Momentof Awesome: Grubbs' and Lord Loss' chess match in the first book. Can we say epic owned?
- Demon Lords And Archdevils: The Demon Masters, most prominently Lord Loss.
- Good Is Not Nice: Beranabus, and later Grubbs.
- The Grim Reaper: In a deviation from the traditional robed skeleton, this version of death is a malevolent, shadowy Cosmic Horror.
- Hellgate: Windows, and the more powerful Tunnels.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Oh, where to start...
- Begins just from looking at the cover of the first book, and once you actually read it...
- Horrible Judge Of Character: Let's just say that teaming up with these demons is a bad idea.
- It Got Worse: Every single effing book. Every single one of the them.
- The Legions Of Hell
- Les Collaborateurs: Humans who side with the Demonata. It never ends well for them.
- The Man Behind The Man:Death.
- The Mole: Juni Swan/Nadia.
- Our Monsters Are Different: To be specific, Our Demons Are Different, Our Werewolves Are Different, and Our Zombies Are Different.
- Moral Event Horizon: Lord Loss does this in his very first appearance, with slaughtering Grubbs' family in a most cruel and horrific manner, and giving their bodies to his minions as toys.
- Shoot The Dog: Too many times to count.
- Will Not Tell A Lie: Lord Loss makes a point of never lying, but he tends to speak in half-truths when it suits him.
- The Woobie: Give just one moment when Kernel was actully happy (excluding the time spent with his little brother Art, who turned out to be a demon).
- Yank The Dogs Chain: When Kernel and his family finally move to new place, start making friends with a little brother he loves, the inhabitants of the village are massacred, and Kernel must go into the demon realms to find back his kidnapped brother. Who wasn't even his brother!
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Any and all humans who side with the Demonata.
