POSSESS By Gretchen McNeil

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Possess by Gretchen McNeil
Published by Balzer + Bray on 8/21/12
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Horror & Ghost Stories, Mystery & Detective, Paranormal, Young Adult
Pages: 400
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her overprotective mom, by Matt Quinn, the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, the voices are demons—and Bridget possesses the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from. Literally.

Terrified to tell her friends or family about this new power, Bridget confides in San Francisco's senior exorcist, Monsignor Renault, who enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession. But just as she is starting to come to terms with her freakish new role, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. And when one of her oldest friends is killed, Bridget realizes she's in deeper than she ever thought possible. Now she must unlock the secret to the demons' plan before someone else close to her winds up dead—or worse, the human vessel for a demon king.

Short and Sweet Review

Bridget can hear the voices of demons and she has the ability to banish them back to where they came from. Bridget is being trained by Monsignor Renault a senior exorcist who enlists Bridget to help him with dangerous exorcisms. When Bridgets friend is killed, Bridget realizes that the demons have a message for her and now she has to figure out how to stop the demon king before he claims a human vessel.

Bridget is one those characters who likes to be left alone, she just doesn’t want to be bothered. I liked Bridget it was interesting to see how her ability worked and I liked that she was able to help with the exorcisms. The demons could communicate with Bridget and gave her a message about what the demon king planned to do, I like how this progressed the plot. Bridget also had a love interest, Matt Quinn and he’s the police sergeants son. Matt and Bridget used to be best friends when they were younger but drifted apart. I liked seeing how Bridget and Matt reconnected, they did have chemistry and they were a good fit he was very protective over her. Bridget’s friend is killed during the halfway point in the book and that’s when things really started to progress. My favorite things about this book was seeing Bridget go to the exorcisms and her piecing together what the demon king had planned and where her ability came from.

I love all of Gretchen McNeil’s books and this one was also entertaining and fun! I liked the whole exorcism aspect and the little bit of mystery that was also in there!