The Merciless II: The Exorcism of Sofia Flores by Danielle Vega
Ok, so I read the first book in this series about seven months ago, and although this was out then, I was waiting to get it in paperback. I hate paying big bucks for hardbacks when it will likely only take a couple of hours to read. All told, this one didn't take long, much like its predecessor.
This one picks up roughly six months after the events in the first book. Everyone on Sofia's block is moving away because no one wants to live near the murder house. Sofia herself is battling anxiety because they never found Brooklyn, and she thinks Brooklyn is out to get her. Sofia is having one such attack and calls her mother. It's Thanksgiving, and her mother is working, but trying to get off early to be with Sofia. Sofia has some hallucinations and then blacks out. She is awakened by someone knocking on the front door. It's a police officer who has come to tell Sofia that her mother was killed in a car accident.
As Sofia is not yet eighteen, she cannot live by herself, and because her grandmother can't even take care of herself, she can't take care of Sofia too. Her only option, really, is to go to a Catholic boarding school a couple of hours away. Once there, she becomes friends with her roommates, Leena and Sutton. Leena has a forbidden pet rabbit and a crush on one of the altar boys, Jude. The problem is, Sofia can't stand the rabbit and has her own crush on Jude.
Then things start to happen...Leena breaks her leg during a rehearsal for the school play. Then the rabbit dies. Leena sees Jude getting a little too close to Sofia, and dies in a fire that night. These events convince Sofia that she has a demon attached to her somehow. She tells this to Jude, who tries to exorcise the demon himself. Things go downhill from there.
There's a third book in this series, so I will likely end up reading it, just for closure. While this installment was ok, it was nowhere near as riveting as the first book.
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