A month-or-so ago, whilst perusing the aisles of the local Borders, I chanced upon a book that caught my eye: California Demon. The description of the book seemed quite interesting:
As both a Level Four Demon Hunter and a stay-at-home mom, Kate Connor’s days are filled with challenges. If Kate isn’t dusting off demons with nothing more than a bottle of holy water and a sharp object, then she is trying to not only meet the many different demands of a toddler, a teenager, and a busy husband running for political office but also keep her house dusted. So far Kate has successfully kept her two different “jobs” separate from one another, but when a new demon–but one with the same old goal of ruling the world–shows up in San Diablo and targets her daughter’s high school, it starts becoming more and more difficult for Kate to keep her family from finding out she has another calling, namely, ridding the world of evil. Picking up Kate’s story from Carpe Demon (2005), Kenner continues to put her fun, fresh twist on mommy-lit with another devilishly clever book.
This turns out to be a series of books: Carpe Demon, California Demon, and Demons are Forever. The books are well written and quite funny… and would make a wonderful TV series because of the basic characters combined with the demon-of-the-week. It would be nice mix of comedy and drama, and I think it would do well. But how to cast it?
Note that my intent here is really not to talk about Buffy (to confess, I’ve really only watched the musical episode)… but rather to recommend this series, which I found to be really good. I’ll also note that the author has a blog and a myspace page that look to be worth exploring.
