Beyer manages to create a world in which demons are not beautiful creatures who sparkle and tempt with their beauty but are inhuman, scary creatures that evoke primal fear in human beings. The Demon Catchers of Milan is a breath of fresh air on the flailing paranormal YA genre. It’s 1:03 am and it’s Ramadan (not that I’m using that as an excuse, okay maybe I am.) Okay, so excuse me not so coherent review. This is a 2012 debut novel that should be on everyone’s radar because it is just that good. I mean, you guys, this one wasn’t even on my radar. I started reading this novel hoping that it wouldn’t be too terrible and I finished it hoping that it wouldn’t end. Milan is not what Mia expected, but it will change her forever, in this stunningly well-written novel about an American girl who, fleeing an ancient evil, finds her only salvation in her ancestral home. Now her cousins Emilio and Giuliano say the only way to keep her safe is for her to come back with them to Milan, to live, to learn Italian, to fall in and out of love, and to master the family trade: fighting all demons with the lore of bell, book, and candle. Mia’s ordinary life is disrupted in the most horrifying way possible when she is possessed by a hungry and powerful demon–and only saved by the arrival of relatives from Italy, the country her grandfather fled many decades ago. Expected publication: August 28th 2012 by EgmontUSA
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