It's Book Club Time!!!

Today we’re reading “Original Sin” by Allison Brennan.

I picked this little gem up at CVS. I was attracted by the shiny cover, like a retarded moth to a bug zapper. I should really listen to that crap about not judging a book by its cover.

Quick plot summary: Moira is a demon hunter, and she is presently hunting her witch mother, Fiona. Fiona has loosed the seven deadly sins on the world in the form of seven really bad demon dudes. Moira and her crew have to catch the demons and send them back to hell. In “Original Sin” they catch Envy, only after it has wreaked havoc on a small town in California.

This book is lame. The characters are all fucktards and the storyline is crap. I want to hit Moira in the face every time she is in a scene. She’s supposed to be a badass, but she’s just a whiny little bitch with a chip on her shoulder (her mom raised her to be an evil witch, but she doesn’t want to be an evil witch...boohoo). Moira has an unexplained sexual thing going on with Rafe, an ex-seminarian who knows demon language. They have a random make-out session after Moira kills a demon. I didn’t know that killing demons was sexual? Gross.

My main concern with the book is that one of the characters, a lady sheriff named Skye, keeps using the word “woo-woo” as a term for anything supernatural. I grew up in a family where “woo-woo” means vagina, so I kept getting confused. Example: Skye says, “You’re getting woo-woo on me...” I think, “Gross! Someone is putting their lady bits on the poor girl!” Note to the author: Never, ever, use the term “woo-woo” again. You sound like a fucking preschool teacher.

SEX SCENE ALERT! Turn to page 246. Anthony, a demonologist, and Skye, the small town sheriff, have kitchen counter sex. Not exactly sanitary, but nothing a good antiseptic won’t take care of...maybe...can you get e.coli in your privacies?

This book gets ½ out of 4 Libby nods. It’s unoriginal, I want to bitch slap most of the characters, and I’m pissed that there are probably going to be six more of the damn books in the works (the next one is “Carnal Sin”... the plot is easy to guess). I can only blame myself for this one. The shiny cover offers an apple of knowledge. Tempted, I took a bite and realized I was better off not knowing. This book is a sin.