A review by alilbitofmonica
Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton

2.0

This book was surprisingly... long and I am sad to say it was not a hit for me.

I wanted to love this book based on the intriguing synopsis, but I am going to be completely honest, I am not sure I was even following this story part of the time. It went down some crazy paths and felt like it was very chaotic and all over the place.

Sarita has a guardian angel... or so she thinks. This is her journey of understanding just what has been watching over her shoulders all these years and why the threat of danger has always been so imminent. It's a much bigger world than she ever imagined.
But it's also a story of ultimate supernatural destruction. Harrah and Cela and the rest of the characters that are introduced in order to dive deeper into the world of devils and... vampires??

Why this book was almost a DNF (but wasn't because I still wanted to find out what happened)
- By the time Harrah's role is made clear, I had already stopped caring about her, so each chapter from her perspective felt like trudging through just to get to the next Sarita scene. This also means that the lore we learn through Harrah was hard to grasp onto without a connection to her as a character.
- The chapters were NOT labeled as to whose POV we were getting, and this was confusing to try to figure out using context clues. This is, perhaps the biggest reason as to why the story never came together for me.
- Things were constantly happening in this book (a good thing!) but once the story lost me, it was nearly impossible to keep up with who was doing what and where they were. This book obviously has a ton of deep lore and I can see how some of this would be incredible, but it just felt like too much.

Thank you to Johnny Compton and Tor Nightfire via NetGalley for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.