Lord Loss by Darren Shan *****

This book is called Lord Loss, and it is the 1st book of the Demonata series, it's protagonist's name is Grubbs Grady, a boy who had just recently lost his parents and sister to demons. He is a scared boy, and was sent to a mental center, the people did not believe him about the demons, he had stayed in the mental center or months, until a man named Dervish came, and he claims to be Grubbs' uncle, and he knows about demons, the main demon is Lord Loss, and he is the antagonist, he killed Grubbs' parents. Grubbs' stayes is Dervish's house, and he meets his first friend, Bill-E, and Bill-E is kind of an orphan, his mom died and he never met his dad, but Bill-E thinks that Dervish is his dad, but Dervish is his uncle, Bill-E is Grubbs' half brother, Bill-E does not know, but he will find out soon. See, the problem is that most of the Grady's have a curse, they turn into werewolves when they are teens. Bill-E turns, Grubbs' is trying to turn him back, but there is only one way, you have to summon Lord Loss and challenge him to a chess match, and if the challenger wins, Lord Loss gets to cure the curse ofone person, he is very good chess player, but a few people have fought him. The rules of Lord Loss' chess games are like this, there are five games, the person who gets most wins win. There have to be two people, one will be playing, and one will have to fight Lord Loss' familiars until the winner is announced. The game started like this, Dervish plays, Grubbs fights, Dervish is playing well but he sees that Grubbs is almost dead, so they switch positions, the scores were 3-2, who do you think won? Grubbs won, and Bill-E gets cured, but there is a twist to the story, the challenger has to go and fight Lord Loss himself in the other universe, and if he wins, he gets to live his normal life again, but if he loses, he will die. Dervish went and survived, suprisingly, and everything lived happily ever after.......but the story continues in the second book! My favorite part is when Bill-E turns into the werewolf, when he is howling and crying. This book is not the best, but it is good.