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Daniel X #3
Demons and Druids
Daniel X's hunt to eliminate each and every intergalactic criminal on Earth is always relentless, but this time, it's getting personal. Number Three on the List of Alien Outlaws takes the form of raging, soul-possessing fire. And fire transports Daniel back to the most traumatic event of his life-the death of his parents.
In the face of his "kryptonite", Daniel struggles with his extraordinary powers like never before, and more than ever is at stake: his best friends are in grave peril. The only way to save them is to travel back-through a hole in time-to the demon's arrival during the Dark Ages. Rip-roaring action and humor sets the pages afire in this gripping time-travel adventure with an Arthurian cast-and countless other surprises!
In the face of his "kryptonite", Daniel struggles with his extraordinary powers like never before, and more than ever is at stake: his best friends are in grave peril. The only way to save them is to travel back-through a hole in time-to the demon's arrival during the Dark Ages. Rip-roaring action and humor sets the pages afire in this gripping time-travel adventure with an Arthurian cast-and countless other surprises!
243 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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James Patterson
1,160Ìýbooks352kÌýfollowersJames Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Tiger Woods, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. Patterson has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, and collaborated most recently with Michael Crichton on the blockbuster Eruption. He has told the story of his own life in James Patterson by James Patterson and received an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.
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May 1, 2021
This is fun and easy and light reading to cleanse my palate so to speak. I probably would have loved this book when I was in 3rd or 4th grade but obviously it isn’t up to that level since I am an adult reading it. However I do enjoy the series. By the time I was in 5th grade I was reading Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Until my Mom caught me. 😆 I had to wait until high school to finally read the whole book. Lol.
December 24, 2022
Daniel is a Alien Hunter. In his mission to hunt his next target, Phosphorius Beta. He has to meet other vicious alien before he could meet his real target.
I love the concept and idea of this book. About alien who infiltrate Earth. Some of the are nice and some are very vicious. Even though it is about alien but it is relatable to reality. How us human can also be good and bad. The bad one can destroyed another person life.
The pace is quite fast even from the beginning. So I didn't feel bored while reading plus with the interesting storyline. I managed to finished it with taking a lot of break as I usually does when reading an English books.
Daniel' s journey to hunt his target is full of action and also emotions. Some will said being emotional will weaken us, but for me sometimes emotions are the thing that help us toughen ourselves and improving ourselves. Just depends on how we manifest the emotions.
While reading this book there are many thing inside my mind that need the answers. But sadly the answer is in another book in this series. I only managed to get this (3rd book). Need to find another two earlier books.
I love the concept and idea of this book. About alien who infiltrate Earth. Some of the are nice and some are very vicious. Even though it is about alien but it is relatable to reality. How us human can also be good and bad. The bad one can destroyed another person life.
The pace is quite fast even from the beginning. So I didn't feel bored while reading plus with the interesting storyline. I managed to finished it with taking a lot of break as I usually does when reading an English books.
Daniel' s journey to hunt his target is full of action and also emotions. Some will said being emotional will weaken us, but for me sometimes emotions are the thing that help us toughen ourselves and improving ourselves. Just depends on how we manifest the emotions.
While reading this book there are many thing inside my mind that need the answers. But sadly the answer is in another book in this series. I only managed to get this (3rd book). Need to find another two earlier books.
January 3, 2012
This book was actually the best out of the series. Though the thing is, Daniel never did face number 1. It just ended after he defeated number 4. I think Daniel is getting rid of the other aliens, so he could save number 1 for last.
Also Daniel has a new power. He could stop time. Maybe the more Aliens he defeats,the more powers he could obtain. James Patterson should write another book(but he is writing Maximum Ride at the moment)
Through out the whole series, I really did feel sympathy for Daniel though. Even though he could imagine his friends to life, he still seemed lonely. He really did not have any to talk to, except for the people that he imagines. I think Daniel needs someone to watch his back, or be with him on every journey.
(I have to wait next month until the new Maximum Ride comes out. I am honestly tired of waiting)
Also Daniel has a new power. He could stop time. Maybe the more Aliens he defeats,the more powers he could obtain. James Patterson should write another book(but he is writing Maximum Ride at the moment)
Through out the whole series, I really did feel sympathy for Daniel though. Even though he could imagine his friends to life, he still seemed lonely. He really did not have any to talk to, except for the people that he imagines. I think Daniel needs someone to watch his back, or be with him on every journey.
(I have to wait next month until the new Maximum Ride comes out. I am honestly tired of waiting)
March 16, 2015
I like this book because it has the best start and ending. It has fire monsters and very interesting things. I want to recommend this book to others cause it is a good book to read when bored. I myself like it because it's and action book. The characters parents died and for me the best part was when the fire monster tried to take over the world. This book teaches us a lot of things like bravery. Good book,really like it!
March 31, 2020
This book had some pretty cool twists and some surprise characters but that couldn't save it from mediocrity. My least favorite of this series so far. Meh.
February 17, 2020
i really enjoyed this book!! it is a fast and easy read so i could read for like and hour and not even realize it!! the storyline was amazing and i also love how james puts the characters in diffrent places of the world and uses real life problems and puts them into his storys. i personally find it intersesting, like how he had mentioned how elephants are aliens and from his planet. i like the small detais thrown into the story. i also really like how even though the parents are dead daniel still manages to bring them intot he story to help him . i love how sarcastic and funny his mom is and how she is like a lot of moms but also much more relaxed with him lieing to get out of school in stuff. (considering he is a alien hunter im not compaining,ill take school over almost dying any day)
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April 30, 2018
I liked this book with the introduction of time travel and the tie ins to characters like Merlin, Arthur and connections with Stonehenge. It was cool that it still had the same alien hunter vibes but had its own spin with those elements. I’m still intrigued by him creating his dead family and friends, I feel like maybe they are real in some way and aren’t just his creations. I can’t wait to see what France brings!
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October 12, 2020it was a short book but it was amazing.
December 14, 2010
I absolutely ADORE Daniel! I would totally date him if he was a real person. but this book was a real let down. it was WAAAAAAAAAAAAY TOO SHORT! Plus not as good as the first two (which are on my fav book list:)) I felt it lacked depth and i didnt feel as much emotion as i did the first ones. I felt that while Merlin was cool, he was like kinda pointless. James Patterson could have done much better and, if that was the last Daniel X book, he could have made it way longer. i got the feeling he was under pressure (maybe from his editor?)and was being rushed. I still thought it was good but could have been better.
BTW. it only took me two hrs for me to read it. that is a problem.
BTW. it only took me two hrs for me to read it. that is a problem.
July 6, 2015
Demons and Druids our the third book I The Daniel X series, and it was not as jam packed with action as the other two. The other issue I had with this book is the fact that he kept "losing" his friends that he created to help him. Why did he just send them away and then bring them back? I don't know when I will pick up the next book, but when I do hopefully it has more action.
November 20, 2017
I take this to be a young adult series. It is science fiction.
I reread this. It was kind of fun. james Patterson mixed past, present and future.
I reread this. It was kind of fun. james Patterson mixed past, present and future.
May 19, 2022
Daniel X is back in the third installment of the Daniel X series. He is going after number three on the galaxy’s most wanted list. Just like those who came before him, number three is very dangerous, and Daniel will have to give it his all to take him down. So with this knowledge Daniel travels to London to start his search for number three. Upon arriving in London, he and his friends who he just materialized, play a game of soccer. After the game is done Daniel is too tired to summon a mode of transport for the group, so they ask a woman driving by to pick them up. Little did the group know they were just captured by the shapeshifting number 43. Daniel, who has gained the ability to turn back time, gets a message in his mind from his dead father that says “you still have time you can take out number 43�(21) after hearing this Daniel goes back in time and saves the group from number 43’s plot.
When they arrive at their destination, they see a figure made of flame with black teeth emerge from a flaming house. This is Beta, the number three most wanted. After this, they explore the city looking for evidence and fight one of number three’s henchmen, the cockney fireman. He has been given the ability to shoot flames by Beta “a glowing flaming ball of lava burst through his eye socket.�(72). He is dispatched and they start to investigate regions where fires are becoming more prevalent. Daniel's friends are captured when somehow the cockney fireman returns and takes them to a secret location. Daniel goes to the fireman’s apartment and is met by Beta, who starts a fight. After a hard fight, he tricks Beta into falling into a pool, and causes him to disappear into a cloud of vapor.
Daniel then goes to what he believes is Beta’s base of operations. Daniel sees Beta’s followers loading metal parts into a truck, so he turns himself into a steel bar, joins the other pieces of metal and travels to Beta’s headquarters, which is an enormous junkyard filled with bonfires and hundreds of Beta’s human followers. Much to Daniel’s surprise, his friend Dana shows up, and the two hide in an abandoned car. He has mixed feelings about her being there though. “I wanted to kill her and hug her at the same time.�(159). They see a massive Cyndarian space ship filled with plants and animals being sent to Beta’s home world as fuel. When Daniel realizes that Beta has sensed them, he tries to teleport out of the car but is too stressed out to focus.
Beta finds them and captures them after somehow coming back from his vaporization. Daniel realizing the hopelessness of the situation makes a last ditch effort to survive and kisses Dana giving him the emotional boost he needed to activate his ability. When he opens his eyes realizes he has been sent back to medieval England, when beta first arrived on earth, and meets Merlin who turns out not to be a wizard, but a member of his species. After some time talking, they decide to help King Arthur muster the courage to fight Beta. King Arthur wins the fight but Beta escapes and returns to the future. Before leaving, Merlin tells Daniel that Stonehenge is the key to killing Beta and that he should look to the skies.
With this new knowledge, Daniel returns to the present and goes to Stonehenge. He summons his family and friends and prepares for the fight of his life. It isn't looking good for Daniel but he still taunts Beta during their fight, saying, “figures that after a thousand years the only thing you would have learned is how to be a lousy cook.�(285). After a while of fighting, he is running out of ideas. But remembering what he had talked to Merlin about helps him figure out how to end Beta for good.
This book has good fight scenes and emotional scenes which I have come to expect from the series. One thing I didn't like was Daniel's ability to reverse time, as I felt it detracted from me feeling as if Daniel was ever in danger. He could just rewind at any time and nothing would ever go wrong. Besides that, I enjoyed reading this book.
When they arrive at their destination, they see a figure made of flame with black teeth emerge from a flaming house. This is Beta, the number three most wanted. After this, they explore the city looking for evidence and fight one of number three’s henchmen, the cockney fireman. He has been given the ability to shoot flames by Beta “a glowing flaming ball of lava burst through his eye socket.�(72). He is dispatched and they start to investigate regions where fires are becoming more prevalent. Daniel's friends are captured when somehow the cockney fireman returns and takes them to a secret location. Daniel goes to the fireman’s apartment and is met by Beta, who starts a fight. After a hard fight, he tricks Beta into falling into a pool, and causes him to disappear into a cloud of vapor.
Daniel then goes to what he believes is Beta’s base of operations. Daniel sees Beta’s followers loading metal parts into a truck, so he turns himself into a steel bar, joins the other pieces of metal and travels to Beta’s headquarters, which is an enormous junkyard filled with bonfires and hundreds of Beta’s human followers. Much to Daniel’s surprise, his friend Dana shows up, and the two hide in an abandoned car. He has mixed feelings about her being there though. “I wanted to kill her and hug her at the same time.�(159). They see a massive Cyndarian space ship filled with plants and animals being sent to Beta’s home world as fuel. When Daniel realizes that Beta has sensed them, he tries to teleport out of the car but is too stressed out to focus.
Beta finds them and captures them after somehow coming back from his vaporization. Daniel realizing the hopelessness of the situation makes a last ditch effort to survive and kisses Dana giving him the emotional boost he needed to activate his ability. When he opens his eyes realizes he has been sent back to medieval England, when beta first arrived on earth, and meets Merlin who turns out not to be a wizard, but a member of his species. After some time talking, they decide to help King Arthur muster the courage to fight Beta. King Arthur wins the fight but Beta escapes and returns to the future. Before leaving, Merlin tells Daniel that Stonehenge is the key to killing Beta and that he should look to the skies.
With this new knowledge, Daniel returns to the present and goes to Stonehenge. He summons his family and friends and prepares for the fight of his life. It isn't looking good for Daniel but he still taunts Beta during their fight, saying, “figures that after a thousand years the only thing you would have learned is how to be a lousy cook.�(285). After a while of fighting, he is running out of ideas. But remembering what he had talked to Merlin about helps him figure out how to end Beta for good.
This book has good fight scenes and emotional scenes which I have come to expect from the series. One thing I didn't like was Daniel's ability to reverse time, as I felt it detracted from me feeling as if Daniel was ever in danger. He could just rewind at any time and nothing would ever go wrong. Besides that, I enjoyed reading this book.
January 17, 2020
I will be honest, I'm not much of a person to go out and search for a book whenever I want to. I often have trouble picking which book will suite me the best and pick a book I can pull out almost any free-time I have either that be at home or school. Now this isn't the first book I have read in the series but one thing I heavily regret is not being able to pick up the books in order. Now that's not a requirement to do so and nothing stopping you from enjoying the book you pick up no matter what number it is (Unless you pick the 6th and last book in the series in that case just pick another book in the series). With the details and excerpts from the back of the few books I was quite intrigued within the story of a "Teenage" who's made his goal to hunter these dangerous aliens. I'll try not to spoil any major parts of the book. The task on saving the planet earth from a giant and fiery explosion is quite the task and it really adds to the tension to this book's sequences. It's the type of enjoyment I thought I would never get since beforehand I barely read most as mostly Aliens and Hunters were never part of the mix I thought I would have liked.I have always liked the ways Daniel makes use of his powers, not only his current ones but the ones he builds upon in later entries in the series (Such as future vision even if it's limited). It's a darn shame that this series has only 6 entries as the story of Daniel's adventures as my main habit to reading is to stick with the series until I run out of books from the series that I can find. I have read the last and final book and I have to say it was as great as the first one I had picked up which was Game Over. I know I had strayed off from the book I am reviewing but I just can't help it as it was these books opened me to the Sci-Fi and continuous story genres. Essentially since the main story of Daniel coping with his loss of Mother and Sister and putting it upon himself (with his friends of course) to destroy every dangerous number alien out there he can find or sometimes even find and/or hunt him down as well which can form some intense sequences which may or may not lead to deaths of some friends in different realities. Overall I enjoyed this installment in the way already finished book series and will try to find some other collection as great as this 6 part-er
May 16, 2017
My book review is over daniel X demons and druids. I began reading this book and i was confused at first but after a few chapters things starting adding up. What I’ve noticed about the daniel x series is, and no offence to james patterson, all the books are the same. Daniel thinks he’s done with “the list� ,which is a list of alien outlaws that are wanted dead, but another just pops out of nowhere. Also there’s usually an alien of the same breed he is going after and he makes friends with them and kills them later, like i said. They are all the same. He gets captured and says this is where he’s going to die and his dead friends come up and help him. I mean why can’t the dead friends just kill the aliens. They’ve died like 8 different times in five books. “Seeing my parents die for the second time hadn’t left me in a charitable mood.� (patterson 148). Spoiler alert, i read the next book and his parents come back. I’m not really trying to bash the daniel x series but the books do not vary at all between books. Another issue i have with the book is the characters make no sense. With this book he was captured twice and the villain even said he could kill him but they just did not feel like it. There were many chances for daniels deaths and all of them were avoided, who knows he could come back as a ghost.
June 1, 2019
This book wasn't very interesting in my opinion. It was good at some parts but at many it was lame or plain boring. Daniel is also becoming to powerful and to boring at the same time.
At the beginning of the book Daniel and his friends are stranded on the side of a road when an old lady in a van comes up and gives them a ride. The lady is an alien and tries to kill them but Daniel uses his new ability and goes back in time. He destroys the on coming van once he is back on the side of the road. Once he gets to London they find a suitable place to stay and see Beta's newest destruction area. He and Emma, one of his created friends, go to investigate a strange person who they end up running from once the man starts to shoot fire. Later Daniel and Dana are in a predicament and are about to die. Then Daniel goes back to the past. He ends up in the time where King Arthur lived. He stays with Arthur and Merlin for awhile before he goes back to his present time. Then he saves Dana and leaves a message telling Beta to meet him at stonehenge. At stonehenge he at Beta fight at Daniel sends Beta into the sun.
This book was probably the least entertaining of the 3 I have read to far.
At the beginning of the book Daniel and his friends are stranded on the side of a road when an old lady in a van comes up and gives them a ride. The lady is an alien and tries to kill them but Daniel uses his new ability and goes back in time. He destroys the on coming van once he is back on the side of the road. Once he gets to London they find a suitable place to stay and see Beta's newest destruction area. He and Emma, one of his created friends, go to investigate a strange person who they end up running from once the man starts to shoot fire. Later Daniel and Dana are in a predicament and are about to die. Then Daniel goes back to the past. He ends up in the time where King Arthur lived. He stays with Arthur and Merlin for awhile before he goes back to his present time. Then he saves Dana and leaves a message telling Beta to meet him at stonehenge. At stonehenge he at Beta fight at Daniel sends Beta into the sun.
This book was probably the least entertaining of the 3 I have read to far.
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December 8, 2018
Demons and Druids is the third continuation of James Patterson's "Daniel X" series. The book introduces a new setting and a new revelation for the young alien hunter, Daniel X. He has to overcome some troubles in order to be able to figure out what he needs to do with his new powers. Patterson does a great5 job in tying in myths and legends into his novel and has an interesting ending, but it still follows the same issues that all of the other previous books face. The common theme is Daniel goes to a new town, meets a new alien, and defeats it. Yes, that is the connection within the series, but there doesn't seem to be any new plot. The Daniel X series is an interesting one to read, but it just isn't something that can keep interests.
December 10, 2019
Starting from the first Daniel X book, I was truly impressed by how interesting about the first one. The words to describe this book is full packet, the reason I say this is because it's not boring. There always something happening and even if your getting sick the same character, there is always someone new that comes into the story or a new ability that Daniel. In this book there is alot of symbolism, the reason I say this is because every from the first book dated to this one the smallest little things bring the biggest meaning out of the story making it interesting.
The down fall of the book is the books are so long. It interesting don't get me wrong the book is great and all but the story story feels like it's going on forever.
The down fall of the book is the books are so long. It interesting don't get me wrong the book is great and all but the story story feels like it's going on forever.
May 7, 2022
Daniel X has to pull out every trick he knows and some he's never used before to beat Beta who is basically fire. Daniel does get burned but doesn't stop his quest to rid the Earth of bad aliens. He's crossing them off his list one by one and Beta's next. But how do you fight fire? Daniel, his friends and family work together to find a way. Even though his friends and parents are all dead he can conjure them from his imagination and they're able to help him so he isn't fighting alone. It's only one of Daniels powers. He learns of a new ability from his father in a life saving moment and it really comes in handy.
June 16, 2018
Even though I'm giving this book three stars because it's not that well-written in my opinion, this is such a guilty pleasure. The main character, Daniel, is so overpowered it's ridiculous, and the super short chapters make it cut off so suddenly that everything feels unnecessarily suspenseful. This is consistent across the whole series, but I love all these books for it.
This book wasn't that memorable, but I'm giving it three stars for just being part of the series, since the series' quality is pretty consistent.
This book wasn't that memorable, but I'm giving it three stars for just being part of the series, since the series' quality is pretty consistent.
May 6, 2017
I chose this book because the first two were great. I really liked this book because we really get to see his friends more than the other two. In the beginning Daniel learns a new skill and that is the ability to turn back time. The one thing is the books are the same with a new bad guy. I have to say the he "gets rid of them" gets so much better every time. The book kept me entertained throughout the whole book. I so far love this series it is great.
December 11, 2017
This was a pretty good book. I liked it a lot, but it was SO SIMILAR to the other to that it was kind of boring. I feel like the same thing happens every book- evil alien, supposedly super powerful yet main character defeats anyway. I knew exactly what would happen because it ALWAYS happens. The plotline was still really interesting, and I like how the author doesn't just explain that things happened, he explains how things happened and why.
October 11, 2018
More rubbish from the world of Patterson Inc - rubbish for young adults dressed up as fantasy. AN unconvincing plot, two dimensional characters, ridiculous twists and turns, and overall fairly dull. Lots of short chapters may make it easy to turn the pages, but does not necessarily make for a good book. This series is right down there with the other fantasy series for young adults Witch and Wizard - and may even be worse.
January 4, 2017
In the third book of the Daniel X series, he continues his hunt for the Number 1 Alien on his list, but before that he has to take out the Aliens below number 1, and the next alien on his list is Number 3, Beta.
I overall thought it was a great and exciting book to read with a ton of action, and adventure. I recommend this book if you have read the others before it.
I overall thought it was a great and exciting book to read with a ton of action, and adventure. I recommend this book if you have read the others before it.
December 25, 2017
apparently, all of Patterson's characters are really family-centered, and it's true(even though they're imaginary). I liked how they jumped right into the action at the beginning. all of Patterson's books have some moment(s) where they just get so sad and depressed but eventually, somebody helps them. it was not s good as I thought, but it's readable.
December 5, 2017
I read this in 2011..
I read this 2011, and never reviewed it. This book is one I can say I enjoyed. I did go on to read the full book. This is an excitimg 25 chapter preview. Pattereon just cant write a bad book.
I read this 2011, and never reviewed it. This book is one I can say I enjoyed. I did go on to read the full book. This is an excitimg 25 chapter preview. Pattereon just cant write a bad book.
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November 22, 2019I felt like this book series was fun at the beginning but it became boring and the same thing started to happen again and again making the book so repetitive. If you are interested in reading it, read the first 2 books and that's enough in my opinion.
February 25, 2020
LOL and now Daniel can time travel! Why? Because plot. HAHAHA! And he time travels to a FICTIONAL timeline of King Arthur and Merlin! This is last of the series I am reading as it is just too damn goofy to continue. It's just too much. Definitely fun though for the goofiness of it!
July 24, 2020
I'm not in the target audience for this book but I do feel it could have had more depth. I haven't read the others in the series but feel that in trying to write each as a stand alone story you would get a lot of repetition giving the back story. My son will still enjoy it.
October 22, 2021
I think it’s an amazing book! There should be an anime about it instead of it being a book tho. I love James Patterson’s books! Ive read a lot of books from him :) I definitely recommend reading the Daniel X series tho!!
January 26, 2023
I love this author, but for me, the time travel was a little confusing, especially if you don't know the legend of King Arthur. However, this was still a great read, and I will be reading the next book.
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