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Thoughtful, lush, creepy - I really adored this. A lot of the books I have loved lately are ones other people would say are too slow or not action-driven enough, but much as I love action and skull-busting, I've had enough high-octane fiction that refuses to meaningfully engage with its characters, its history, and its world. This book is at least as much about Mia integrating into life with her estranged family in Milan and being a stranger in a strange land as it is about ghosts and demons.

The Delle Torre family is large and complicated - by turns alluring and frustrating, and always dynamic. The food descriptions are to die for, and the in-depth (fictionalized) history of Milan and the family scratched my inner historical fantasy nerd right behind the ear.

There are many questions left unanswered in this book but (1) there's a sequel and (2) I kind of like that the book - and Beyer - are not forthcoming with easy answers. As the Delle Torres would say: What do you think happened?

Fans of the creepy atmosphere of Gretchen McNeil's POSSESS and and ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD and the urban fantasy world-building of the Shadowhunters series would probably like this. All in all, this book is a hidden gem and I hope more people give it a shot.


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The Demon Catchers of Milan Kat Beyer Books Reviews

The story is accessible to young readers, and well-written, so more mature readers will enjoy it as well. The characters are believable and likable. I most enjoyed seeing the main character explore, and fall in love with, a new city and culture. I fell in love with Milan right alongside her.

I'm eagerly anticipating the rest of the books in this series. I definitely recommend it!
This book is SO beautifully-written and so INCREDIBLY interesting!

Beyer is a deft, sure-handed writer with a great sense of language and an even better sense of place. And food. Oh, goodness the food!

While I was reading this book, I kept looking up from the and finding myself surprised that instead of being a hot Italian-American girl in Milan I was still, in fact, a middle-aged Irish mom in the Midwest. It was so absorbing that I felt that I was actually Mia.

Mia experiences a deeply horrifying demon possession in America and has to travel to Milan for protection with family she barely knows. Beyer does such a great job of capturing how much Mia feels out of synch, especially when she doesn't know the language, but also how getting in touch with her family and the city her grandfather is from also feels so right and familiar. It was the perfect touch.

The book is also deeply dark, sad, and frightening -- as books dealing with demons and the dead _should_ be. Beyer treats all of these characters with respect as the rich, complex people they are (and were). She captures the politics of demon-catchers so close to Rome beautifully, and the gorgeous gorgeous scenery and food. Did I mention the food?

I wish I were in her family's candle shop right now, waiting for the bell to ring. This is truly an amazing book, so different from many YA paranormal books out right now.
Kat Beyer's first book is stunningly good, and makes one hungry for the next in what one hopes is a long line of sequels. As other reviewers and the book description provide the outline - a teenage girl in upstate NY survives a possession only with the aid of her Italian cousins, who then take her back to Milan with them in order to protect her from subsequent attacks, and to teach her the tricks of the family's demon-catching trade - I'd rather praise the extraordinary richness of the detail with which she crafts so compelling a narrative, the delightful spirit which animates the storytelling, particularly regarding Mia herself, the seriousness of the family mission, and the courage which gracefully inhabits so many of the characters.

The Demon Catchers of Milan is not just a great read - it has successfully conjured a great world, inhabited it with characters you want to meet (or be), and made you wonder how much of that world might just possibly leak in to this one, if we could be so lucky.

About the cover - looks to me like a marketer's idea of what will sell books, and maybe it will, but please know that the book is much more richly textured and thoughtful than the cover would imply. If you like the cover - buy the book. If you don't like the cover - buy the book anyway.
This book starts well, slows down for a bit then picks up and ends well.
Lots of good food, extended family and well informed classical history.
Kat Beyer's debut novel makes me eager to read the next two books in the trilogy. The story introduces us to Mia, a teenager from upstate NY, who gets possessed by a demon. It takes the efforts of her estranged family from Milan (where demon catching has been the family business for centuries) to free her from the demon. But we soon learn that the demon is just waiting, liable to take her at any time unless vigilance is maintained.

That possession and her danger from the demon comprise the action of the larger trilogy. This story is about Mia finding herself in Milan. The author does an amazing job of balancing gripping action (Mia is involved with several possession cases) with coming to know her family, her new city, and herself. I found the action scenes to be riveting, but even more so, I found watching Mia move from scared girl out-of-her-depth to confident young woman ready to take her part in the family business compelling. Mia's growth as a character and our coming to know the family and the city creates the arc of this first book.

I enjoyed this story immensely and read it in a single weekend. Now I have to wait until the next book is out to see what happens to Mia and to the Demon Catchers of Milan.
Thoughtful, lush, creepy - I really adored this. A lot of the books I have loved lately are ones other people would say are too slow or not action-driven enough, but much as I love action and skull-busting, I've had enough high-octane fiction that refuses to meaningfully engage with its characters, its history, and its world. This book is at least as much about Mia integrating into life with her estranged family in Milan and being a stranger in a strange land as it is about ghosts and demons.

The Delle Torre family is large and complicated - by turns alluring and frustrating, and always dynamic. The food descriptions are to die for, and the in-depth (fictionalized) history of Milan and the family scratched my inner historical fantasy nerd right behind the ear.

There are many questions left unanswered in this book but (1) there's a sequel and (2) I kind of like that the book - and Beyer - are not forthcoming with easy answers. As the Delle Torres would say What do you think happened?

Fans of the creepy atmosphere of Gretchen McNeil's POSSESS and and ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD and the urban fantasy world-building of the Shadowhunters series would probably like this. All in all, this book is a hidden gem and I hope more people give it a shot.