The Demon's Lexicon Analysis

One of the hazards of being hunted by magicians is that you have to be on the move a lot. Therefore, the Ryves Bros. & Co. do quite a bit of traveling in this story, which gives us quick peeks...

The way this story is told is one of the most important aspects of The Demon's Lexicon. Although Sarah Rees Brennan uses a third person voice, we remain close to Nick throughout the book, seeing ev...

Young adult lit generally features YA characters, and The Demon's Lexicon is no exception. With a sixteen-year-old protagonist, Nick Ryves, as well as his brother Alan (age nineteen), and their new...

Although the story is told through third person narration, the narrator is very close to Nick throughout the book, which means we see things from Nick's point of view and get a lot of his inner tho...

If you're lucky, you know someone who has a way with words. You know, that person who, whenever she describes something, you think to yourself, "Yes, that's exactly it." Maybe you're even one of th...

The great thing about the title The Demon's Lexicon is that you can't fully appreciate it until you finish the book. (Unless, of course, you read this first.) Lexicon is sometimes used as a fancy w...

Nick spends the entire book feeling like an outsider:He doesn't make friends the way other people do.He doesn't feel emotions the way other people do.He can never find words (let alone the right on...

Rees Brennan throws in a few cool vocab words (lexicon, crenulated, scabbard, sigil, and the like), but they're relatively spread out and even if you don't look them up (come on… look them up) th...

Ravens, Magicians, and Demons—Oh MyNick and Alan Ryves are being hunted by magicians who have the ability to summon and control demons. The magicians want something from Nick and Alan, but Nick a...

The name Nicholas means victory of the people, and there's a St. Nicholas (not Santa) who is regarded as the patron saint of wolves, among others. (Source.)Sarah Rees Brennan has written sever...

There's no nudity, and while there are a couple of make-out scenes, none of them ever go beyond kissing, but hoo-boy—this book still sizzles. There's some serious lust and longing going on, and i...

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