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Geek Syndicate
BOOK REVIEW
Lo’Life Book 1: Romeo Spikes, By Joanne Reay
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who one night runs into the strange Lola at the latest in a line of suicides that she is investigating. During the meeting, she learns of The Tormenta. The Tormenta are demons that are closely related to humankind whose sole purpose is to torment humans into committing suicide so that they can steal the victims’ life span and use it to stay alive. The more life-span they can steal, the longer they can live for – however, the life must be given up freely and can’t be taken. If a Tormenta is impatient and takes the life-span whilst a person is still alive, then their victim will be delivered to Lo’World and returned to earth as a hunter of The Tormenta. Lola, it turns out, is just that – a hunter from The Sinestra, a security section of the Lo’ World whose only purpose is to protect humanity from all the demons who seek to suck away the life-span of humans. To make matters worse, the rise of The Mosca has been foretold - a king amongst Tormentas who will draw all Tormentas to him. It is up to Alexis and Lola to work together and find him before he unites all ?Y[?\?[? ?]?\? [X[?] H[??X\?? ?ZX?YK?[???[\?[? \? [YH? ?[\\?\? ?]?\?[? ??X?Y\?H??[? \?[????Y?[?[[???\? ?[Z\?H??H??[ ?H[?]X[?\?X?\??\?H[? ?? X?Y[[??[[YYX][ H ?] Z\??[ ??Y\??Z[???\?Y?] ??Y??] H ?\?? H??[ ?H??[[[YYX][ H?\ YYK Y]HY?[? ] H ??H ?Y??Y[? X?\?H???[???[???X??[????] ?Y[??\?X?\??[? X?\?
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