I would say it’s a pleasure to meet thee, Prosperity Oceanus Redding, but truly, I only anticipate the delights of destroying thy happiness.

Prosper is the only unexceptional Redding in his old and storied family history — that is, until he discovers the demon living inside him. Turns out Prosper’s great-great-great-great-great-something grandfather made — and then broke — a contract with a malefactor, a demon who exchanges fortune for eternal servitude. And, weirdly enough, four-thousand-year-old Alastor isn’t exactly the forgiving type.

The fiend has reawakened with one purpose — to destroy the family whose success he ensured and who then betrayed him. With only days to break the curse and banish Alastor back to the demon realm, Prosper is playing unwilling host to the fiend, who delights in tormenting him with nasty insults and constant attempts trick him into a contract. Yeah, Prosper will take his future without a side of eternal servitude, thanks.

Little does Prosper know, the malefactor’s control over his body grows stronger with each passing night, and there’s a lot Alastor isn’t telling his dim-witted (but admittedly strong-willed) human host.

My Review:

“A jealous brother or sister will kill one of their siblings and hide their bones. But when the bones of the victim are found, they sing the truth of what happened.”

This was my first ever time reading a book written by Bracken and I wasn’t impressed. It had a lot of hype around it and it just didn’t live up to it. It had a really strong start but it fell too soon.

If you pay attention to some details in this book then you’ll pretty much have it all figured out. Hell, even the back of the book gives a lot away. Mysteries should stay that way up until the end but I had a lot figured out way too soon.

With a synopsis like what this has, this could have been amazing. But nothing stood out and I found it quite boorish. And writing a book for younger readers with this many pages is intimidating for that age range.

Alexandra Bracken has what it takes to blow my mind but this one wasn’t it. I won’t cast her off too soon but I’m not going to read one of her YA titles just yet.