brandonlbc's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Sexual assault
Moderate: Alcohol
the_sassy_bookworm's review against another edition
5.0
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Christ on a cracker was this an amazing book! I couldn't put it down and read it all in one go. Phenomenal writing. Fast-paced. An engaging, dark, and gritty plot. Two incredibly likable main characters and a plethora of secondary characters that round out the story. Run, don't walk, and get your hands on this one asap. This is southern noir at its best!
**ARC Via NetGalley**
Christ on a cracker was this an amazing book! I couldn't put it down and read it all in one go. Phenomenal writing. Fast-paced. An engaging, dark, and gritty plot. Two incredibly likable main characters and a plethora of secondary characters that round out the story. Run, don't walk, and get your hands on this one asap. This is southern noir at its best!
**ARC Via NetGalley**
itsmarkyall's review against another edition
5.0
Peter Farris writes as though Flannery O’Connor passed him the torch of Southern Gothic fiction. You’ll see THE DEVIL HIMSELF on all of the best of lists for 2022. The French already know what Americans are going to find out. No one is writing better Southern fiction than Peter Farris is today.
alexcarbonneau's review
5.0
What a fun southern fried ride!
Fans of Ace Atkins' Quinn Colson series will appreciate the style of Farris. This book was fun!
Fans of Ace Atkins' Quinn Colson series will appreciate the style of Farris. This book was fun!
gabbysnieto's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
3.0
newsguy45's review against another edition
5.0
A spectacular read. Peter Farris spins one heck of a story. Great characters (I loved Leonard), great pace with ample amounts of heart and grit. Highly recommend this one!
mamasin's review against another edition
4.0
This is a wonderfully interesting book. Maya is involved in human trafficking. At just 18 her life has been very hard. She escapes and winds up at the house of Leonard. He is a an old woodsman and marches to a different drummer. The towns people are very aware of Leonard and his style of life. He is the talk of the town. He and Maya develop a very special relationship which reveals another side of each of them.
macncheese_pdf's review against another edition
4.0
Thank you to NetGalley, Arcade Crimewise for the e-ARC! The Devil Himself is a riveting, page turning Southern noir thriller that begins with Maya, an eighteen year old victim of sex trafficking, bound and gagged in the trunk of a car driven by two men trying to kill her. When she gets away, she is rescued by Leonard, intolerant of trespassers and speaks to a mannequin he thinks is his wife. Leonard takes Maya under his protection in his farm house where they build a bond over their troubled pasts while fighting off drug cartel and sex traffickers trying to get Maya back. The suspense of the first chapter alone had my hands sweating profusely. The Southern scene setting is great, a fictional county in Georgia where everyone seems to know each other with strong muggy and swampy imagery. Every time there would be a split second of peace, something would turn that shit around immediately. The character development is fascinating. I wouldn’t put this under the traditional horror genre but I do think that horror fans would be very satisfied with the brutal and deranged kills it has to offer. I am super interested to read more by Peter Farris after this.
CW/TW: sexual assault
CW/TW: sexual assault