For every grain of sand on the beach, there are at least six books written about the gifted misunderstood outcast who saves the day. Yes, you're in for it again. Sort of. Thankfully for the sanity of the reader our heroine is rather more compelling than the average cookie-cutter child so popular in teen lit. Jane is less interested in herself and bemoaning or rejoicing her lack of friends/popularity and more in helping her best friend, who sold her soul for the sake of popularity to the demon Lanalee. Less than a frightening name, but they say that actions speak louder than words. Help and enlightenment come in the form of some monks from Jane's Catholic school, and a young man who died some time around the early 1900s (love interest, naturally!). Despite rather rough commenting lore, the book actually falls into relatively few of the pitfalls known to go with the demon fighting genre. The writing is slightly on the simplistic side--you'll be done in a few days, if that. But the heroes fail to annoy, the villians hold interest, and the book also features interestingly and somewhat underused secondary characters. It's not for everyone, not as a whole the book receives a final verdict of: 4Q, 4P
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