{"id":92140,"date":"2012-07-06T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T00:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92140\/close-paranormalfantasysci-fi-novel-demon-inhibitions\/"},"modified":"2012-07-06T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T00:20:38","slug":"close-paranormalfantasysci-fi-novel-demon-inhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/92140\/close-paranormalfantasysci-fi-novel-demon-inhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"A Close Look at the Paranormal*Fantasy*Sci Fi Novel: Demon Inhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday, July 6, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n
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A Close Look at Gary Starta’s Demon Inhibitions | Target Audience Magazine<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
A Close Look at Gary Starta’s Demon Inhibitions | Target Audience Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

A Close Look at Gary Starta\u2019s Demon Inhibitions<\/h1>\n

by Target Audience Magazine<\/span><\/a><\/span> on July 6, 2012 <\/span>with 0 Comments<\/span> in Book Reviews<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cA mix of sci fi, paranormal suspense, urban fantasy, mystery and romance, \u201cDemon Inhibitions\u201d takes the Caitlin Diggs series in a new direction with first person narrative.\u201d -Gary Starta, author<\/h4>\n

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\nChasing a soul stealer in her reality, psychic investigator Caitlin Diggs inadvertently travels through a portal to another reality and witnesses her fugitive kill her alternate self in \u201cDemon Inhibitions.\u201d Assuming her alternate\u2019s life as an agent of the FBI\u2019s Preternatural Crime Division, Diggs believes\u2026 her position might help her capture the soul stealer until she finds he may be part of a sinister terrorist plot to keep humans and demons living in segregation. A girl, whose singing inhibits the evil urges of demons, is on the terrorist\u2019s hit list and Diggs will ultimately learn her fugitive is neither supernatural nor demon, but a genetically engineered hit man incapable of being enthralled.<\/span><\/span>
\nI thought I\u2019d list what Amazon has listed on <\/span>\u201cDemon Inhibitions\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> in case you\u2019re not familiar with Starta\u2019s Caitlin Diggs Series. I\u2019ve been a fan of Caitlin Diggs\u2019 intelligent, spiritual and compelling, kick-ass style since I started reading the series (which includes \u201cBlood Web,\u201d published in 2007). <\/span><\/span>
\nPlus, being a fan of the television series \u201cFringe\u201d with its FBI agent Olivia Dunham and co-workers who, on some episodes travel to a parallel universe, I was super eager to see what Starta did with his character, FBI agent Caitlin Diggs, when she traveled to a parallel universe. <\/span><\/span>
\nWell, I certainly wasn\u2019t disappointed, as it\u2019s one step beyond the \u201cFringe\u201d episodes, in my opinion, as the characters aren\u2019t as similar to their counterparts in the other dimension that Starta created. For instance, in the protagonist Caitlin\u2019s universe, Celeste is her domestic cat, who happens to be attuned to protecting Caitlin; whereas, in the other universe, Celeste is Bastet who is able to morph into a big, non-domestic cat, who actually attacks Caitlin at their first meeting. <\/span><\/span>
\nAlso, Starta has done a great job of showing different values in his alternate universes. For instance, in the universe the original Caitlin we\u2019re introduced to is not<\/em> from, about six out of 10 beings is a demon. <\/span><\/span>
\nDemons are classified as vamps, lycanthropes, incubi, goblins, etc. and most of them mind their own business, without causing harm to others. So, full-blooded humans are certainly the minority there, and therefore so are their values to some degree. <\/span><\/span>
\nAside from interesting plot lines, there is the attention to detail in his descriptions that Starta always manages to bring to the plate\u2014even in a fictional world, and I can\u2019t help thinking that this may spring from his having been a journalist at one point. It probably also aids in his writing of believable, non-stilted dialogue.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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