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The Iron Bells
The Iron Bells
The Iron Bells
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The year is 64 A.D. -- though now A.D. stands for Anno Daemonii.
Demons have crossed a gate into our world, taking the reins of power
from humanity. A new Inquisition has begun, determined to root out any
who stand against the new world order. The holy sites on earth have
been destroyed -- Jerasulem first, then the Vatican, then Mecca -- and
what resistance remains is ruthlessly crushed. Amaranth is a fighter
in the resistance cell based in London. Dham is a Ringer, one of the
few people left able to ring the remaining sets of blessed hand bells
that have power over demons. When Amaranth discovers that her best
friend has been possessed by a demon and is going to be used in the
Resistance's final, desperate mission, she asks Dham for his help in
saving her friend. With the Inquisition closing in and betrayal
threatening from inside the Resistance itself, Amaranth, Dham, and the
demon -- along with Catriona, a new, highly-skilled, highly-blonde
bell-ringer -- decide to head to Rome and the ruins of Vatican City,
hoping to find a way to stem the tide of demonic possessions and close
the gate.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 9, 2013
ISBN9781311983282
The Iron Bells
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Jeanette Battista

Jeanette Battista is the award winning and Amazon best-selling young adult author of The Moon Series, These Violent Delights, and the Books of Aerie series. She received her MA in English literature with a concentration in medieval studies. She’d been a technical writer, a software release project manager, and a freelance educational writer. She’s taught college freshmen how to write and occasionally still talks writing with high school and middle school students.Her household includes several humans and three cats, one of whom is missing an eye. He is unfortunately not named Odin, a choice that will haunt her forever. When she’s not writing, she’s having the crap beaten out of her in a ring during Muay Thai class, reading anything she can get her grubby hands on, and playing Unstable Unicorns. She lives and works in North Carolina.

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    It's been sixty-four years since the demons stopped moving in stealth and fully took over the world. They outlawed and destroyed anything that could hurt them, especially religions. Now, only a few contraband books and symbols are left and the world as we know it is gone. While most humans try to get by, some work with the enemy and some are the resistance.

    Amaranth is part of the resistance. It doesn't leave her much time for other things, like school, but she makes time for her best friend Patrick. He disappears while she's on a mission picking up a "package" that happens to be Dham, a Ringer, so-called because he's one of the few people left who can ring the bells that can harm or even banish demons. He's here for a secret mission, one that could, if it succeeds, save the world.

    I enjoyed this book quite a bit and found it to be different from the usual YA or Adult urban fantasy mold. I liked the idea of the Ringers and of the bells themselves and why they work.

    I also liked Trick and his explanation of the demons and their plans. They were enslaved for centuries by any human who knew how to call them and they would understandably fear repercussion if they left the human world now. It doesn't make them sympathetic characters, not by any means, but it does give them a depth I don't often see written for villains.

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