Great idea for a book and really well executed. A thoroughly good read. Highly recommended. .

[This took me a while to get around to, because the ARC was in a format I couldn't comfortably read for long periods of time (PDF) - I ended up buying a copy of the book to read it.]

When I finally was able to read DEMI-GODS, I found it to be an interesting, if unsettling/uncomfortable-at-times read. Robertson's prose is excellent, and her characters are well-drawn and realistic. It's not a sunny read, it's a bit difficult, but it's an interesting examination of a young woman who comes of age in a time when she has little control over her life - in some cases due to societal mores/norms, at others because she is taken advantage of by someone close to her.

An interesting read.

This book wasn’t what I expected. The cover is so cute and uplifting, but I don’t think it matched the story.

It was written in a literary style. There weren’t quotation marks around the speaking parts. This always slows down my reading. It did emphasize that the story is being told by Willa, but I find that style frustrating.

I was confused at the beginning because the characters aren’t introduced very well. It took a few chapters before I figured out what everyone’s relationships were to each other.

Some parts of the story made me uncomfortable too. There were some semi-incestuous relationships which were awkward.

Willa reminded me of Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird. She even had a special hole in a tree that she visited. However, Willa grew up much faster in this story than Scout.

Overall, I was disappointed in this story. It just isn’t my type of story.

I was really excited to start this book, the description was fantastic. However, I felt like I was dropped in right in the middle of the story. There wasn't really any explanation of who all the characters were, and what was going on. It just went straight into her peeing on her arm and her stepbrother making her defacate in her underwear - and I had no idea what was happening or why she would comply. I had to set this book aside after attempting the first few chapters I will perhaps come back to it later, but it didn't leave a very good impression from the first bit that I did read.