Weirdly the protagonist is now not Kevin (although he features) but he cool kid from school who's the actual faerie seer, but one of the less interesting characters from the first book.

He wakes up one morning to find the world's turned strange, most people are missing and nothing feels right. A little bit of investigating finds a few other usefully awake people and they piece together what's happened - a bored teenager has summoned a demon lord, and the earth is slowly turning into Hell. It can all be reversed they just have to defeat the demon.

There's lots of running around, hunting for the requisite parts of the spell, and then a big showdown, and then everything goes back to normal. I found this somewhat dull. The sole redeeming feature is that very suddenly we're introduced to Malefus, who's a fallen god, cursed mute, but able to tattoo abilities onto people for a price. I've no idea why he wasn't in the first book, or really why he's in this one. However the author has written other stories with him in, and he's much more fun than the rest. ( )