Demon: A Memoir
by: Tosca Lee
Published by: NavPress Publishing Group
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Reviewed by Maria Elmvang
I hadn’t read many pages of Demon: A Memoir before it struck me how much it reminded me of the movie “Dogma”. Granted, Demon is a lot more respectful, but the two actually have a lot more in common than one would think at a first glance. Dogma shows the story of two angels, banished to earth, telling us how they saw God’s love for humans. Demon flips the tale around, but a lot of the details are the same. Clay, a failed author-gone-editor is approached by the demon Lucian who wants to tell his story to Clay so that he can write and publish it. Through the eyes of a fallen angel we’re taken through the Bible from before God had even created the earth yet, until just after the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Lucian describes passionately the rise and consequent fall of Lucifer and his followers, and the shock of the demons when God created humans, not to take their place, but to be so much more–to be friends of God, to be loved by Him, even when imperfect. The demons couldn’t understand such a thing. They were damned for following Lucifer and could never return to Heaven. Why didn’t God treat humans the same way? Seeing the history of mankind through the eyes of a demon, the unfairness raises the obvious question of why humans and angels/demons were treated so differently, and suddenly we gain a whole new perspective of why Satan hates humans so much: jealousy–plain and simple. If he can’t have eternal life with God, then neither should we.
Demon: A Memoir is a fascinating book covering a well-known topic from a new angle. Tosca Lee helps the reader to question things so often taken for granted, so I was left with a new and better understanding of God and His love for us humans.
The book isn’t specifically aimed at Christians, and there’s next to no “preaching” in it, so the label “Christian fiction” needn’t scare any potential readers away. Regardless of faith and religion the description of human nature–for better or worse–will resonate in any reader.
Armchair Interviews says: A good read for anyone curious about God.
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