Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Release Date: October 25, 2022
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Source: Publisher
Genre: Dark Fantasy
All Hallows’ Eve meets All Saints’ Day in critically acclaimed author Menna van Praag’s mesmerizing second book featuring the Sisters Grimm—a dark, contemporary fantasy that skillfully blends love, obsession, and dark magic.
After the battle with their demon father ends in a devastating loss, the Grimm sisters are separated. But, now three years later, as their twenty-first birthday approaches, dark fate brings them together once more.
For Goldie, this birthday is overshadowed by sorrow. She cannot forget the outcome of that battle, the devastating tragedy that has wreaked havoc on her already turbulent waking life. While her sisters have thrown themselves into their own endeavors, Goldie has grown distant and inconsolable. Driven by grief, she devises a diabolical plan using a human sacrifice to resurrect what she has lost.
When Liyana unexpectedly discovers what Goldie intends to do, she agrees to help if Goldie will try another way, without sacrificing a life. Returning to Everwhere, they combine their powerful magic to bring back what Goldie has lost. But something goes terribly wrong, and Scarlet is showing signs of being possessed by an evil spirit.
With their lives at stake, the sisters realize they must confront their personal trauma, make amends with the past, and once again prepare for a demonic fight to come.
On the night of their birthday, battle ensues . . . and tragedy strikes once more.
Night of Demons and Saints, by author Menna van Praag, is the second installment in the authors Sisters Grimm series. According to my notes (it's always good to take notes), this book takes place 3 years after the ending of The Sisters Grimm. The book once again revolves around three main characters: Scarlet Thorne, Liyana Chiweshe, and Goldie Clayton. The three sisters live very different lives, but all are filled with pain and suffering. They’re all forced to overcome their trauma they have all faced in order to come together to fight a demon reeking of tragedy in the Everywhere.
Unfortunately for Goldie, the battle against their evil father left her in a state of loss, and her brother has gone rogue to the point of getting in trouble every chance he gets. Goldie has lost part of her heart, Leo, and thinks that she may have found a way to bring him back to life. Goldie has the power over earth, and the power of resurrection. Bringing Leo back should be easy. When Liyana unexpectedly discovers what Goldie intends to do, she agrees to help if Goldie will try another way, without sacrificing a life. Returning to Everwhere, they combine their powerful magic to bring back what Goldie has lost. But something goes terribly wrong.
For Scarlet, who has the power over fire, is in a relationship that seems to be going along fairly smoothly, until she finds out that she's pregnant, and that's he may or may not be the man she thought he was. Scarlet’s story inspires the most emotion, namely frustration and anger. Many times over the first part of this story, I said please bring back the fiery Scarlet that showed up in the first book. While some of her change takes place slowly, I would have liked it be more a lot more quicker, especially when it came to her annoying boyfriend.
For Liyana, her aunt is dying, her girlfriend Kumiko is off to college, and she's basically adrift with no guidance. Liyana, who has the power over water, travels to Everwhere and meets a woman who warns her that she and Scarlet and Goldie will have to face a serious challenge on the night of their 21st birthday. A challenge that may change Everwhere forever, as well as unleashing their powers for good or evil. A challenge that may bring back the evil they banished 3 years ago.
The girls return to Everwhere, where things just go from bad, to worse. Certain things just are not meant to be fixed, and this is one of those times. Bringing back what was lost, just should have stayed lost. I think one of the most curious characters turns out to be Goldie's brother who goes from a total pain in the ass who intentionally gets into trouble, to a boy who looks at his sister with different eyes when he learns that there is an entire side to her which he actually likes a whole lot.
The way this book ends, I find no reason for their to be another sequel unless the author intends to write from the view point of others characters who are coming into their powers and have found Everwhere and a sister named Bea.
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