Demon

A Memoir

By: Tosca Lee

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

From the author of the New York Times best-selling Iscariot comes an award-winning novel that poses the question: if a demon came up to you and offered to tell his story, would you listen?

Clay's life has reached a standstill. Recently divorced, he spends his days drifting from his drab apartment to his equally lackluster job as an editor for a small Boston press and back again. His dreary routine has left him mired in a seemingly meaningless existence, until the night he meets Lucian - a demon - and everything changes. With the simple words, "I'm going to tell you my story, and you're going to write it down and publish it", Lucian catapults Clay's mundane life into turmoil.

What begins as an intriguing mystery soon spirals into a chaotic obsession as Clay struggles to piece together Lucian's dark tale of love, ambition, and grace - only to discover the demon's story is strikingly similar to his own. And the only thing that matters now is finding out how the story ends....

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Can't stop listening!!!

Tosca Lee presents a narrative that makes you look at life and the scriptures from a different perspective. Too often we play church, and we have a choice to make.

Thought-provoking.

I really enjoyed Tosca Lees perspective of what a demon would have gone through and what a demon would have witnessed and thought of everything since they were cast out of heaven.

Great Story, bad reader :-(

I was so distracted by the voice and limitations of the reader that I wish I had gotten the physical copy to read myself. There were errors in pronunciation and distracting intonation that too away from a truly compelling tale. I stopped listening after the first chapter, but reconsidered thinking that maybe I was just being picky. Now I’m almost done and have suffered through it—however when I heard “social mores” pronounced like a campside snack without the leading S, I had to leave this review. Sorry.

Even until the End….

I found this book to be gripping, inspiring and painfully insightful. To those who do not know the Lord, I would implore you to listen to this book. After all is said and done the simple truth could have been written I one sentence, We have received a gift, His Grace and His Mercy, unmerited and undeservedly. The new saying now is “woke”, are you woke? I am so humbled to have been chosen to see and receive HIS unwavering love, compassion and most of all HIS Mercy. I will recommend this book to an atheist I know, maybe it will do him some good, if not, I guess he will find himself like Clay in this book.

Tricky Demon

2015 written version: Amazing story. The madness. The beauty. The horrors. The deep conversations. The twist. Oh that devious, sneaky, tricky Demon.
2020 Update: The audio version of this story has come out. The narration is excellent. The story just as good the second time around.

beautiful

simply beautiful. the story was amazing. I couldn't be any happier with the performance.

Interesting

A good story. A good listen. Interesting take on biblical history. Missed an opportunity to respond to biblical inconsistency. But I don’t think that was the authors intent.

Didn’t think i would like it But i Loved it

Great story, well told and i was worried close to the ending but loved the way the story kept true to itself!!

Excellent!

I don’t know why this book doesn’t have thousands of 5 star reviews, it is one of the best I’ve ever read and I don’t give 5 stars often! Other than the narrator making it a bit difficult to distinguish Clay from Lucian in certain parts, I found this book to be fabulous! The author was capable of taking a knowingly evil character and making his story relatable. This story expanded so much in my imagination of what happened through history — “the fall”, Adam & Eve, and Christ’s arrival, it made me consider concepts I never before considered. Did the fallen angels grieve and long for the presence of God after being cast out of Heaven? Did their hatred spring from envy of man and our ability to receive forgiveness & atonement? I pondered so many possibilities that this book presented that I never would have otherwise. Definitely a thought provoking story!

Good listen

I enjoyed the story and performance from start to finish. The images and ideas that spring forth help me have a better understanding of the mercy and love that God provides for us.