The Demon Queen: This book was just plain weird. A boy who comes from nowhere, who has no parents and no homeland just happens to be fostered in the town where a mother and her daughter Honor relocate after a terrible tragedy in Indonesia that claims the life of  Honor’s father. And Honor just happens to be the gateway for the mother of all evil goddesses to enter the world and take over.  And the only one who can stop her is Jesse, the boy with the mysterious past.  I kept thinking that the plot sounded familiar, like some cheesy movie I had seen on the SciFi channel. I picked it up because I was interested in having a story based on a mythology other than Greco-Roman, but this is so out there that it will be a hard sell to my high school students. Some middle school boys who are into weird monsters and fighting might go for it.