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The Devil and Dan Cooley

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Although not as good as "Sympathy for the Devil," Lisle's first book in this series, this second rendering of the presence of thousands of Hell's Damned Souls in North Carolina is still great fun (lover's of small dogs beware, though). The authors have already found a lot to poke fun at in these books, and, with the number of possibilities for other targets for their sharp wits, this promises to be a long and enjoyable series.

Although this book had somewhat more in the nature of surprises in store for the reader than the first book of the series, it still seemed to be missing something to close the deal.

I'll have to say that at least I did feel somewhat more intrigued to get to the end of the story than I did in "Sympathy for the Devil".

I think what left me flat in this book is that the main 'active bad guy', who had been built up in conversations including Lucifer himself as being REALLY REALLY evil, just wasn't all that bad. The 'active bad guy' in the third book, with no build up at all, was actually much more evil.

Another complaint I had is that the characters in this book were very stereo-typical characers for almost the entire book. Just when they got some real meat to make them interesting, the book was over. Hint to authors: endeavor to make the characters interesting throughout the book, that's just being kind to the readers.

If you wind up reading this book, you won't curse the time you spent, but there are so many better books around that if you tried to read them all, this one wouldn't actually ever get to the top of your stack.

I recently read the Hell books by Holly Lisle (or at least the first three). The books are concerned with the presence of the hellraised on Earth and the interplay between Heaven and Hell.

In THE DEVIL AND DAN COOLEY, North Carolina is still home to the hellraised. Radio DJ Dan Cooley begins a program to help the hellraised redeem themselves. Meanwhile the Devil has assigned a new head to the Earthside operations. As the hellraised get closer to arranging to run a theme park Hell's hidden agenda works its way into the North Carolina residents.

Another fine entry in the series with some very unforseen plot-twists at the end where we find out what has really been going on.

The Devil books by Holly Lisle are very entertaining. They are light, east to read and very humorus. Prudish people may be slightly offendedm, but it is really all in good fun. If you like the Myth series by Robert Aspin then you will like these and vice versa

Great gift grandpa =] I love u and I am sure I am going to agree with your interpretation of Amy =]

The Devil books are very entertaining. They are light, east to read and very humorus. Prudish people may be slightly offended, but it is really all in good fun. If you like the Myth series by Robert Aspin then you will like these and vice versa

A must read!!!!