Review: Christmas Party Demon
I received this book from the publisher (Mad Axe Media) in exchange of an honest review.
The newest in the Totally Freaked! series and instead of a new book in this world we get a sequel to an earlier book. This time no Birthday Party Demon, no this time it is Christmas! And it is a last ditch effort to get everything right!
Because as we can see now that several months have passed is that Zozo, Zoey, or Lacey is gathering all the people from the school in her fashion demon army. Even the mousiest of girls gets recruited. Zozo is not just satisfied with a couple, she wants the world! Zozo still terrifies me, especially given her confidence that she will win. And the fact she can so easily get people to be possessed. I mean, at one point people were just getting possessed left and right. I am sorry, but that is a big YIKES from me. And Zozo wants to have Eve and Tina in the club!
In this one we see how Tina (our MC of this story) and her bestie Eve are trying their hardest to avoid Zozo and also figure out a plan to get rid of her once and for all and help out Lacey. I loved following Tina and seeing her again. See how next to a demon in her life she was trying to get a car (ah, America), get creeped out by whatever is lurking behind her, try to be happy for her mom who had a new boyfriend (especially this one was a big one for her). Along the way trying to make plans, and I love those plans though I was worried if it would be going well, I mean, Zozo has quite the army now. I am glad we got to meet those people again from the previous book and get some help from them, this time good help, haha (thanks Ras in the previous book).
Things get quite dicey and scary at times and I was wondering if truly everything would go all right. Or if it would all fall apart. I mean, with Totally Freaked you never know! I won’t spoil anything, but strap yourself in the seat because it is going to be a ride! A merry Christmas glittery demon ride! And yes, you will definitely shed some tears along the way.
Oh, and RIP boys. They are CapriSuns (as Deon so wonderfully called it).
I loved seeing Tina explore her sexuality/who she was falling for. She has always loved Lacey (well, before she turned into a demon), and now she is falling for Lance, a boy from her work. Which confuses her as she always has liked girls, and not boys. I liked seeing her try to figure things out and see her fall more for Lance in the process. It gave a bit of light-heartedness to the whole demon is turning everyone in a demon thing.
The ending, or well, the epilogue (which generally is something I love). I am not entirely sure how I feel about that.
All in all, I had fun and I flew right through this novella. I am curious what is next for the Totally Freaked! series and I hope that there are many more books to follow in this delightfully creepy YA series.
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