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Raising Hell
Raising Hell | Bryony Pearce
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Meet Ivy Elisabeth Mann -' I know what you are thinking, but I'm not half faery, or demon, or angel or anything like that. Mum's a Body Shop consultant living in a bungalow in Birmingham and Dad enters crosswords.'Once upon a time, Ivy and her friends did a very stupid thing and now there's a rift letting dark matter into the world. Dark matter that manifests as black magic which actually works. Now every teenager with access to the Internet is raising hell. Literally. Ivy's doing her best to stem the tide, but her new job working school security barely pays the bills and there's only so much one girl with a machete (and a cat possessed by her own dead grandmother) can do against the forces of evil.Now she's facing a teenage goth with an attitude, her ruthless but frustratingly handsome brother, a dark cabal with a terrifying agenda and a potential zombie apocalypse. Ivy losing her job might be the best thing to happen to the world ...
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Raising Hell | Bryony Pearce
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This book was so funny, and not to be taken seriously, I mean there's a cat that's possessed by the main character's grandmother and a machete called Matilda!
The beggining of this book leaps right into the action without much explanation, so it's really a case of figure it out as you go along until a certain point, then we get told some background information, however I did enjoy the plot and the fast pacing mixed in with the action

abookdragonsretreat small romance. I did find this book surprisingly dark, which I absolutely loved!

I really enjoyed the world building too, the descriptions were vivid and I liked how the dark magic worked, and the different rituals and banishing things. Plus the setting in/near London was really cool to see, most of the books I read are either set in fiction places or America, so it was a nice change for me.

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The narrative is told from Ivy's POV and let me tell you, the girl is so badass! Plus she is once again hilarious and takes responsibility for her mess.

The ending was drawn out but in a good way, usually I hate endings that take too long to finish, but this time I liked seeing how every bad situation caused in the book was dealt with (especially the zombies!). I also enjoyed the twist at the end and how it could lead on to a sequel.
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