Servants of the Storm, by Delilah S. Dawson
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Servants of the Storm, by Delilah S. Dawson
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“An urban fantasy that could rival some of Holly Black’s most imaginative and creepy fare” (BCCB).A year ago, Hurricane Josephine swept through Savannah, Georgia, leaving behind nothing but death and destruction—and taking the life of Dovey’s best friend, Carly. Since that night, Dovey has been in a medicated haze, numb to everything around her. But recently she’s started to believe she’s seeing things that can’t be real…including Carly at their favorite café. Determined to learn the truth, Dovey stops taking her pills. And the world that opens up to her is unlike anything she could have imagined. As Dovey slips deeper into the shadowy corners of Savannah—where the dark and horrifying secrets lurk—she learns that the storm that destroyed her city and stole her friend was much more than a force of nature. And now the sinister beings truly responsible are out to finish what they started.
Servants of the Storm, by Delilah S. Dawson- Amazon Sales Rank: #1253633 in Books
- Brand: Dawson, Delilah S.
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up—A year after Hurricane Josephine wreaked havoc on Savannah, Georgia and claimed her best friend Carly's life, Dovey is still trying to come to grips with that horrible night and its aftermath. Believing that she recently spotted Carly at one of their old haunts, the protagonist stops taking the medication that has kept her numb to her surroundings and grief. All around her, Dovey begins to see that all is not well in her city and a pervasive demonic presence has taken over her school, town, and even family. She joins forces with otherworldly Isaac, who has secrets of his own, and boy-next-door Baker to save Carly from being enslaved by a demon for eternity. Dawson infuses her Savannah setting with dark corners and an eerie atmosphere in this Southern Gothic tale. The author also excels at world-building, creating an intriguing mythology around demons, their servants, and natural disasters. Details about Savannah's underbelly and its tourist trappings, along with a realistic portrayal of its diversity is also refreshing. However, unreliable narrator Dovey and the cast of secondary characters never rise above their caricature status, and the unresolved conclusion lacks punch. Only patient readers will make it through to the last few chapters and will most likely feel cheated by the effort.—Shelley Diaz, School Library Journal
Review Dawson's Savannah is beautiful and haunting. . . . Right away, Dawson serves up atmosphere, humor and scares, balancing it all deftly. Turning the page felt like peeking around a corner; I wanted to know more but I was afraid of what might come next. It's gorgeous Southern Gothic with a swift kick. (Madeleine Roux author of the New York Times Bestseller Asylum)
About the Author Delilah S. Dawson is the author of Hit, Servants of the Storm, the Blud series, Star Wars: “The Perfect Weapon,” a variety of short stories and comics, and Wake of Vultures, written as Lila Bowen. She lives in north Georgia with her family and a fat mutt named Merle. Find her online at WhimsyDark.com.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. I expected something pretty creepy and By Katee Robert WHOA NELLY. From reading the blurb, I expected something pretty creepy and, let me tell you, I was NOT disappointed. Ms. Dawson draws you into a world that seems to exist a side-step away from ours and the mythology she's created to support it is very well thought-out and fresh. There were whole sections of this book where I found myself holding my breath, so lost in the story that I was helpless to do anything but turn the page and keep reading. If you're looking for something dark, eerie, and strangely beautiful, this is the book for you!I cannot wait to see what Ms. Dawson comes up with next, because she's thrown down a serious gauntlet with SERVANTS OF THE STORM. Just an amazing book all around,
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. For fans of creepy paranormal YA By Cass This is a book that is going to polarise people. I gave it five stars so clearly I'm in the "I loved it" category, but I can't think of the last time a book pulled the rug out from under me in the last chapter like this one did. I lay awake half the night thinking about it. If there were a sequel available for me to read RIGHT NOW, that wouldn't be so bad. But there isn't. And I want to cry a little from frustration.I see from perusing other reviews on Goodreads that some people had assumed this was a psychological thriller, and so were disappointed when it took a supernatural turn. Although there are elements of psychological thriller to the story -- Dovey spends the first part of the book coming down off heavy medication and her memory is unreliable at best -- the story is more a cross between urban fantasy and horror (which I guess is where gothic fiction often sits).There are supernatural beasties, mostly demons or their various offspring. And the horror elements are a combination of the creeping sense that something was rotten just beneath the shiny surface, and the way the book leaves you gasping, like the freaky scene right at the end of a horror movie where all is revealed. I was reminded of Silent Hill by parts of it, if you're familiar with those games (and that movie) -- the way you'd turn a corner and something that looked shabby but more-or-less normal would peel back and reveal a slice of something deeply disturbing.Other than the amazing atmosphere, the thing that made this book for me was Dovey. I love how complex a character she is. She is deeply flawed, in that she has a one-track mind (and may or may not have been dangerously insane before the antipsychotics). Her goal, to find out what happened to her friend Carly a year before, is what inspires her to stop taking her medication, and it's what drives her to do pretty much everything from that point on.Sometimes her actions are almost daft, the way she dives into trouble after having been warned of the danger. The ease with which she resorts to violence as the drugs go out of her system is both a warning sign and, I have to admit, deeply satisfying (because who doesn't love a tough main character?). But her clear and enduring love for her friend, and her natural distrust of the gorgeous but suspicious Isaac -- the one providing all the warnings of danger in the first place -- are the cause of her recklessness. I can respect that.There is a bit of a love triangle here, in the typical YA way: Baker is the childhood friend with a longstanding crush, and Isaac is a little bit of a bad boy ... but not that bad, really, given the other YA bad boys out there. He came across as more of a bookworm who's fallen in with a bad crowd to me, which made me like him more than I like most bad boys. Either way, the romance is definitely a subplot, a bit of extra spice, which is how I personally like it.If you like paranormal stories with a serious creep-factor and a dark conspiracy, then this is the book for you. Five stars....now, where's my sequel?
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Don't Drink the Water… By Renee Given the review blurbs on the cover using adjectives like, 'strange,' 'lyrical' and 'haunting,' I expected something along the lines of The Night Circus. Unfortunately I found ‘Servants of the Storm’ neither 'lyrical' nor 'haunting.' What I got instead was a story that begins with a potentially interesting premise and quickly spirals into the realm of the ridiculous. (Demon servants are drugging the groundwater? Demons can't use cell phones?) Even though Dovey lampshades this kind of thing several times, I got the feeling that the author was making up the rules as she went along, and that's never a hallmark of successful world building. The first person present tense narrative is used to advantage two or three times to enhance the unreliable narrator effect, but that wears out pretty quickly.There are other issues, too. Throughout the novel secondary characters who should be more engaging than they are come and go without leaving so much as an emotional ripple. Plot elements are introduced, never to be resolved. The last third of the book depends on a chain of incredible coincidences, encounters with complete strangers who are unrelated to the action, and obscure clues that Sherlock Holmes couldn't connect the dots on.While some of this could be chalked up to the author's attempt at telling a tale with an unreliable narrator, the groundwork isn't laid well enough to make for a satisfying payoff. The entire story lurches to a halt in the final pages, feeling something like a TV show trying to wrap up a season with a cliffhanger after one of the main actors quit at the last minute.
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