Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com

As humans involved in our daily lives, we often take the world for granted. Our days are filled with boring, humdrum activities. A. M. Jenkins creates a new twist on the mundane in his new book REPOSSESSED.

First, meet Shaun, age 17. He is about to take a step in the wrong direction - into the path of an oncoming truck. Next, meet Kiriel, a minor demon in search of a short break from the fires of hell. Put the two together, and you get a whole different view of daily life.

Seconds before the actual truck/teen collision, Kiriel slips into Shaun's body. Kiriel, a demon who prefers to call himself a "fallen angel," sees the perfect opportunity to find that needed break from his dull duties. He wants more out of "life." He wants to feel it and experience it first hand.

Once in Shaun's body, Kiriel is able to experience what he has only previously observed. This is his first actual look at the world through human eyes. Amazing! There's the feel and texture of everything from food, especially ketchup, to clothing against his skin. Fabulous! And that two-and-a-half hours spent in the bathtub make him wonder why humans don't constantly bathe. Kiriel finds himself wondering how humans can live such exciting daily lives and still express the desire for further adventures.

To Kiriel the real world is not all about just the physical experience. As he deals with Shaun's family, a divorced mother and his younger brother, Jason, he learns that love and the emotional side of life can be an unexpected roller coaster ride of its own.

A.M. Jenkins's demon makes us see what is really around us and perhaps makes us more understanding and grateful for how precious life is. ( )

Fun story of a low level devil that possesses a young teen boy whose life was very boring. It is fun and enlightening to see the world through the eyes of the demon who has never experienced such simple things as...ketchup...one of his absolute favorite things about being human! ( )

A demon named Kiriel is tired of his boring and useless job in Hell. He takes over the body of of a teenage boy named Shaun, seconds before he dies. Kiriel is out to experience everything, from simple the touch and smell of a dirty t-shirt and the taste of ketchup to all kinds of emotions, like lust, sex, and wrath. Kiriel knows he only has a short time until they notice he's not in hell where he is suppossed to be. Perphaps the creator himself will take an interested in his own small rebellion? ( )

Kiriel has spent millenia in hell and he needs some fresh air. Knowing that Shaun was about to get killed by a cement truck, Kiriel steals his body. As Shaun he's blown away by experiences from bathing to eating, especially ketchup. Though he really wants to experience all the seven daily sins, he winds up trying to leave an imprint, open a door for his non communicative, sullen brother Jason to break out of his shell; let his fantasy love Lane experience her own beauty and caution the school bully or "sower of pain" about the consequences of his antisocial behavior. Maybe the biggest thing Kiriel wants is to be noticed and missed by the Boss, the Creator. ( )

A fallen angel who reflects sins back to sinners in hell decides to steal a human body and see what being human is all about. While the plot had great opportunity to be an interesting read, I found myself bored with the characters and with little desire to read to the end. The demon character had almost no personality that I could relate with and the characters he interacted with were boring to me. I feel that this book could have been very entertaining but failed to meet my expectations. ( )