The Demon Lover

I liked this novel a lot. Though not as good as her own Sea Priestess and even The Winged Bull, this novel, typical of Fortune's fiction, as a darkness and occult wisdom to it without pigeonholing herself or its audience into it. The problem with today's generation is that they got progressively worse as time went on, and more and more incompetant. The occult fiction genre reached a bad low around these times with the dread Necronomicon recieving a new release. Fortune didn't make pompous aspirations like any Necronomicon, didn't codify the occult into a religion like the Church of Satan, it wasn't a hoax like Crowley. Basically, I like it because it keeps it more reality based with an engrossing plot and believable characters while retaining the humor of suckering you out of money for enteratinment. Fortune and this novel is to be commended with knowing the occult and not just walking on thin ice.

Dion Fortune was an Amazing woman.This book was first published in 1927. Dion was heavily involved in the Occult community of that century England. Prior to her involvment with the Occult she was a psychologist. In this book she reveals her wisdom of human nature along with her great knowladge of the Occult. I suggest this book to those who either really enjoy a good supernatural story, Or those versed in psychic, occult, Wiccan, or paranormal studies. To explore this book is to go back in time to the days of secret societies, when magic was Magick.

Veronica is a young woman who is innocently plunged into a world of occult intrigue and danger.She becomes the secretary of Lucas who uses her psychic abilities to further his own ambitions.He is caught out by his own secret fraternity and escapes with Veronica as a hostage.She falls in love with him, and it is only her love which saves him from the Abyss into which he has fallen as a result of his abuse of occult forces.This is Dion Fortune's first novel, and it introduces a number of the occult themes that appear in her subsequent novels.This novel has the authority of someone who knows what she is writing about, and it is an exciting read.