The Campaign
Book Three in the Council Trilogy
A witch who’s pulled between duty and desire faces the growing threat of a demon’s power in the exciting fantasy novel The Campaign.
In Evette Davis’s thrilling paranormal novel The Campaign, a gifted political consultant navigates a presidential campaign while an ancient demon threatens to tear the universe asunder.
Olivia is an empath and a newly minted witch, summoned as a political consultant to help Diana Chambers with her presidential campaign. A rogue political operative stymies the team at every turn; his demonic possession spreads an exponential blight upon the land, with natural disasters and erratic human behavior spiking whenever he travels. Olivia calls upon her coven of allies—a trio of vampires, a time-walker, and experienced witches—to confront the growing threats. She’s torn between the obligation to the supernatural council she serves, her loyalty to Diana, and a steamy love triangle. A prophecy warns that if the demon achieves its goals, the fabric of existence will unravel.
The prose is elegant and approachable. It balances conversational language with cinematic details, as of an “emerald green lake” and “enormous mountain peaks jutting into the sky in the distance” in the Idaho wilderness where Olivia holes up while deciding if she’ll join the campaign. Indeed, even while Olivia works on the political campaign and confronts supernatural threats, backgrounds are developed with centering texture.
Olivia is a complex heroine, pulled between her senses of duty and desire. She works to become a capable leader within the supernatural council and longs for her beloved. At her opposite, the villain is chilling, driven toward complete destruction at any cost. His clever weaponization of human ignorance of the supernatural functions as effective social commentary, and he uses misogyny to attack Olivia, painting her in a negative light in ads while commanding violence against her.
However, the novel’s compelling quiet moments are overshadowed by its continual action. Olivia has little opportunity to stop and reflect unless she’s forced to by others or her circumstances. When her father dies, she has no time to grieve. Situations often demand that she decide a course of action without much reflection, depriving her of growth opportunities. Her romantic entanglements are also underdeveloped in this series volume. Still, the book’s action elements make it effective as a standalone, and some of Olivia’s backstory is incorporated in a helpful manner.
Building toward an engaging showdown, The Campaign is an exciting paranormal novel in which dark magic and political manipulations intertwine.
Reviewed by
John M. Murray
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