The Demon's Lexicon Themes

Nick hates words; Alan loves them. Nick's never sure what certain gestures mean or when they're appropriate; Alan's a natural back-patter and hair-ruffler. As brothers, they're different as can be,...

Lies and deceit and deceit and lies—that's what the lives of the Ryves brothers (and the rest of the characters in The Demon's Lexicon) are built on. Yeah sure, there are some truths in there too...

From a caterpillar into a butterfly, a tadpole into a frog, a frog into a prince… Okay, so that last one's slightly less likely to occur in the natural world, but transformations are big in life...

Sometimes families are dysfunctional, and we'd say the Ryveses in The Demon's Lexicon qualify on that front—even without all their wild supernatural juju. A mother who hates one of her sons so mu...

As you can guess from the title The Demon's Lexicon, there are a few things in this book that aren't exactly natural if we're thinking about nature as we know it. Like, well… demons. The thing is...

Everyone experiences isolation. Feeling alienated is, after all, part of the human condition, and that's why it's so interesting that Nick is the most isolated character in The Demon's Lexicon. Bec...

Huey Lewis said it best:The power of love is a curious thing,Make a one man weep, make another man sing,Change a hawk to a little white dove,More than a feeling—that's the power of love. All righ...

Ever hear of the Trolley Problem? Here's the gist of it: you're a train yard operator and you see a train coming that's going to mow down five people. They don't have time to move, but you have tim...