The Village Library Demon Hunting Society | Ch 10 - Ch 17

[@PagesandChaos]

Omg I’m so glad you brought up all my thoughts! Especially the line in the beginning of chatter 17!

[@KeepCalmwithBooksandCoffee]

What a roller coaster!

[@withhernoseinabook_stacy]

I agree with how you guys are feeling. There’s too much going on and I feel like we’re not going to get a satisfying conclusion to the story.

[@ellena_reads]

Okaaay, not where I though we would be last week. I'm very disappointed with this middle third of the book. I agree with all of the points you brought up. So many conveniences, too many characters that were introduced and didn't make you care about any of them because it feels like their whole purpose was providing Sherry with new information. Doubting on the author landing this ending in away that is gonna be satisfactory is not a good feeling to end on that's for sure. Also, having only 1or 2 scenes with Father Barry in this section brought my enjoyment down a lot. The whole funny tone that developed in the end of the first section completely shifted back to the convenient plot and confusing character motivations and actions of the first section. 😔 Hopefully it won't continue in this direction and we finally get some answers. 🤞

[@tuesdijo]

I agree - Father Barry is my favorite character. He's so goofy 😂

[@BuecherEnte]

Oh boy, here we go: 1. Also around a 2/2.5 2. Favourite character: Father Barry (still holding on from his presence in the first third) Least favourite: Sherry!! I just cannot with her... I also find her quite condescending! 3. Will we get any demon-hunting in a book titled "the village library demon-hunting society"?!? Also, will the demon-hunting society get together again?? I was so excited for that party after the first part of the book... I also hope, that Sherrys past is somehow connected with everything, because if not... while watching your discussion I had the random idea, that the demon-hunting may be Sherry overcoming her past (her past being her 'inner demon')... i don't know. Listening to you both talk made me realise how much happened that I didn't like in this part - or actually didn't happen, because that is what it felt to me: Nothing really happened. Just Sherry trying to solve the murder but somehow it is totally forgotten that there is a possible "She" and no one is looking into that anymore... And the way Todd just turned up randomly with Alans Family... I was like what?!?! All in all, I am very disappointed and - as you summed it up pretty well - I don't care 😅

[@julia_l-c]

Hehehe thanks for reminding me where we are in the book 😁. I thought the secrets Allen kept were stupid and annoying - some didn't make sense that he would keep them cause it didn't really matter. And the whole backstory with Sherry was just stupid, just a waste. And the whole trauma of a fender bender being why Sherry won't drive?!?! Ugh. Definitely lots of convenient plot devices in this section. And yeah, there definitely seems like there's a suggestion that most of the women have bad men in their past - also the young neighbor lady (who I forget her name, and she kind of disappears in this middle section). Yeah, my rating is meh as well.

[@sweet_t_reads]

Never mind my comment on the last video about Allen. Learning more about him I'm like ummm yeah no never mind!

[@tuesdijo]

I pretty much agree with everything said! I also feel like the title is SUPER misleading so far. There's no demon-hunting happening by anyone, let alone a whole society of demon-hunting going on. 😅 Also, you mentioned Sherry blaming the demon for her making the phone call to Charlotte - I feel like Sherry is always so quick to blame the demon for what I would consider to be normal human behavior. If I remember correctly, she called Charlotte after a fairly stressful moment. It seems perfectly normal for your instinct to be to call a friend in that situation.

[@tennille9dawn]

In this section especially, I feel like the unreliable narrator is really off the wall, to the point that things are disconnected. I feel like at this point in the book things shouldn't be so lost in the weeds. I took it in terms of the Caroline situation that Sherry hit a person/hit and run on the way to the airport, and that Caroline killed her husband - or maybe Sherry hit Caroline's husband in an attempt to escape to go to the airport.