Daemons Are Forever

Secret Histories, Book 2

By: Simon R. Green

Narrated by: Stuart Blinder

Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Join supernatural agent Eddie Drood on a dangerous adventure in the second Secret Histories novel from New York Times best-selling author Simon R. Green.

“Fans of fast-paced heroics, featuring a snarky knight armored in silver and sarcasm, need look no further; Eddie Drood is your guy.” (SF Revu)

For centuries, the Droods have been fighting the monsters in the shadows so that the rest of you lot can go about your everyday lives. These days, I’m the head of the family, and it’s fallen to me to deal with a bit of a mess left over from World War II.

Seems that back then the Droods made a pact with a bunch of demons known as the Loathly Ones to fight some really nasty buggers called up by the Nazis. Once the war was over, we couldn’t get rid of them. Now they’re calling their masters to invade and destroy our world...and we Droods are the last, best hope of stopping them.

I’d say that the world is in a major lot of trouble.

©2008 Simon R. Green (P)2016 Audible Studios

Harry and Roger are half brothers

The writer doesn’t know the difference between a half and step brothers and needs to do better research

I tried

Great narrator… but I could not get into it at all. And a little too much with the incestuous stuff and other provocative sexual material. Felt like it took away from the story, unless that was the goal of the author of course. Other issues as well, but I’m not wanting to just pile on. Could be perceived differently from person to person so no reason to not check it out with it being a free download.

Lost down the rabbit hole

The first few hours were interesting, with a growing game board full of ne’er do wells and rogue Droods amassing at the Drood compound to take on a Loathly Armageddon. The Blue Fairy, Mr. Stab, a half daemon … so many characters of dubious intentions. But, by the halfway point it became an incoherent jumble of twists, time jumps, and not at all credible solutions.

As with many of this author’s books, the plot lacks of a known villain to provide a foil to Eddie.
Bad enough it’s the faceless, all powerful Them, but for 20 hours? Ugh.

The lack of character development, beyond coming up with interesting creatures, extends to Eddie himself who is your typical all powerful white guy surrounded by white humans.

There were an oddly high number of effeminate men and MM pairs made up of men who also liked women (because he didn’t want them to be simply gay?). It felt like the author was trying to be cutting edge with fluid orientation, maybe as an attempt to track the MM side plot of the original Bond book?
It didn’t feel mean spirited or anything. I just never bought it and was left scratching my head.