The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees BrennanSeries: The Demon's Lexicon #1
Genre: Paranormal
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Source: Bought
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Nick and his brother Alan are on the run with their mother, who was once the lover of a powerful magician. When she left him, she stole an important charm - and he will stop at nothing to reclaim it. Now Alan has been marked with the sign of death by the magician's demon, and only Nick can save him. But to do so he must face those he has fled from all his life - the magicians - and kill them. So the hunted becomes the hunter...but in saving his brother, Nick discovers something that will unravel his whole past...
“The word ‘home’, it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.”
The Demon’s Lexicon, I think, can be best described as Supernatural set in England. And depending on your viewpoint of the show, it does many things better. So we have our protagonist, Nick, and his brother Alan – laughing at the generic English names tbh – living on the run with their mother, who is wanted by a powerful dark magician for ~reasons. We then have Jamie and his sister Mae, who are thrown together with Nick and Alan, also because of ~reasons. It is the bond between these two sets of siblings that lie at the heart of this novel, and while the plot moves at a staggeringly fast pace with brilliant twists that make it near impossible to put the book down for any extended period of time, it is the scenes between these four characters that move the novel from ‘good’ to ‘fantastic’. Brennan never forgets that characters drive stories and as a result each of the four characters are vivid, unique and utterly heartbreaking.