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Monday 4 February 2013

Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready - Review




PREMISE
Set in modern-day Washington, D.C., Requiem for the Devil depicts the end of the Devil's ten-billion-year career. For the first time in his existence, Lucifer falls in love, and this event threatens to transform his identity and perhaps even his destiny. Gianna O'Keefe is the woman who drags him out of his ancient despair and points him toward possible salvation.

Yet Lucifer's path from evil is neither straight nor smooth. Pursuing love means betraying his fellow fallen angels, the loyal friends who once followed him to damnation. Divine and infernal forces seem to conspire against his and Gianna's union. Lucifer's empire crumbles around him as he dares to defy the natural order and question his fate.


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I highly recommend this book for anyone who, (like me!) loves the misunderstood, anti-hero types. This is your book. Jeri Smith-Ready portrays Lucifer amazingly. She has written him so cleverly that he manages to do truly horrendous things, but still makes the reader go "Ah, the poor thing.".

The whole thing is written from the Devil's point of view, and it's a book about salvation more than anything. It's not a religious book though, in fact I would recommend you DO NOT read it if you are religious, unless you want to see Christianity entirely turned in it's head. It has about as many religious aspects as any book about fallen angels, e.t.c would.

I really liked this book overall. It had something I hadn't seen in awhile: class. It was more "crafted" than written and it was the first book I'd seen that dealt with the Devil on such a level. That made it very original. 

The novel follows Lucifer (known as Louis) from the moment he meets Gianna, in modern day Washington. Their relationship progressed beautifully and every breath was believable.

I did not, however, like the ending. I didn't like how Gianna acted towards the end, and thought that that part of her character was at odds with how wise and mature she seemed at the start of the novel. I absolutely HATED the ending, and went around depressed for about a week because of it*. The horrible twist at the end is pretty sudden though, so you can read up until the third-last chapter and still come away a happy person!

Overall, I'd give this book:
 


*Why???? How could we readers deserve such cruelty? Books have happy ending because life doesn't! Aghh!

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