I ordered this out of curiosity and [livejournal.com profile] brown_betty’s review, and all I can say is that she is much more charitable than I am! I did not like the lack of setup for the tormented half-demon private investigator and his sort-of demon relatives, because I could not enjoy the manpain without caring about the man, and I found the chapter introductions about the characteristics of daemons and spheres and higher powers to be laughable (that spelling ought to give you an idea). The characters seemed to run around doing rituals and having sex and dreaming nightmares that were reality on another plane of existence and I was just bewildered about why or why I should care. There’s a difference between starting in media res and starting with the emotional dial UP TO ELEVEN, and that difference was not respected here. ( )