Jana Oliver is an Iowa native who now enjoys the sunny winters in Georgia. Sojourn was nominated for ten awards, including the prestigious Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. Ms. Oliver lives in Atlanta with her husband and a variable number of cats. She is known to frequent Victorian pubs for “research”. She loves single malt scotch. Learn more at 
The Demon Trapper’s Daughter by Jana Oliver
The Demon Trapper’s Daughter (titled Forsaken in the UK) is set in Atlanta, 2018. It’s not precisely a post-apocalyptic setting, but it’s a depressed one, with economic woes plaguing much of the population and demons living openly among humans. These aren’t angsty, misunderstood demons either, but fiends from Hell; the small ones are nuisances and the big ones are deadly.
Seventeen-year-old Riley Blackthorne is an apprentice demon trapper. Her father is himself a prominent trapper,
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Pretty challenging book. Cut by half, speed up the cadence. Trying to figure out the plot, the main point of…
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…