Book Review: The Demon’s Covenant, by Sarah Rees Brennan

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The sequel to The Demon’s Lexicon is from the point of view of Mae, who is trying to deal with her very complicated life which has been made even more complicated by magic and the presence of Nick and Alan Ryves. (She is also in the dog house with her mother Annabel, who it turns out, is not the kind of parent who would not care if her two children disappeared. She is just the kind of parent who deeply sucks at interacting with children. Unreliable narrators are not to be trusted and should not be trusted because they are unreliable.)

Not long after the events of Lexicon, Mae’s brother James is being approached by the magician’s Circle that had targeted him in the previous book. This time around, they seem to be intent on recruiting him instead of feeding him to a demon, so he’s rather conflicted. When she finds out about this, Mae goes to Nick and Alan for help, but they have problems of their own: the magicians are still after them, and they are on very shaky ground with the “Goblin Market” a group of individuals who stand in opposition to the magicians.

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