ok

The reviews of this one were very mixed, but I thought I’d give it a shot, anyway, because I’m a sucker for kids-in-peril-fighting-monsters story. It was solidly alright.
I did like that the ending took an unexpected turn, not with a big twist or anything like that, but with a sort of genre change- it turned into a Scooby-Doo/Buffy-style adventure with a motley band of heroes teaming up to continue to track down and hunt demons. It was cute.
The child characters were, apart from the fat kid and the girl (by virtue of them being fat and a girl, respectively), basically interchangeable, having no real defining characteristics. Or, no, one kid is middle-class and has a healthy relationship with his parents, and one kid is working class with a useless mother and is abused by her boyfriend. But yeah, that’s it. The adults in the 2000s part of the story fare a little better, and they do get a bit of psychic/magic aided personal development at the end, which was fun. It could not be considered a character driven piece, by any means, but that's ok.
It was a nice, light work-listen with a plot just interesting enough to keep my attention from drifting off.
(Unrelated to anything else, I had thought, huh, the author must be British..? because of some of the colloquialisms used, but nope, he’s American.)

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