The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books remarked that it is “A fast-paced vampire novel”, while Publishers Weekly has said that “readers will drain… in one big gulp".

The book is set in the fictional town of Ramsa, New York, and centers around teenager Jessica Ashley Allodola.

After her husband's death, the pregnant Jazlyn accepted the offer in a moment of desperation and Siete changed her.

Her green eyes, black hair, pale skin, and vampiric traces in her aura were all from him and Jazlyn could not look at her.

Teen People said the book was "a good Gothic chiller,"[citation needed] while Boston Magazine said it was "elaborately imagined,"[citation needed] whilst the New Yorker said, "Amelia has an uncanny understanding of the kind of narrative that makes for a successful potboiler: she's skilled at creating characters the reader easily and instantly bonds with, and she's resourceful when it comes to putting them in jeopardy.

"[citation needed] Kirkus Reviews found Demon In My View "Full of atmospherics, but weak on style" and "Not bad for a 15-year-old, but not a well-written, fully realized novel either.

"[3] while Publishers Weekly wrote "Atwater-Rhodes exercises impressive control over the complex lineages she has imagined, and she comes up with creative solutions to advance her story.