Reviews

The Devil's Scribe by Alma Katsu

alicihonest's review

3.0

I'm cackling oh my god, so did everyone who read The Taker ask Alma Katsu "so did you just really like The Cask of Amontillado?" to the point where she just went "Fine! You know what! My main character met Poe and inspired him!!!"? I'm not mocking, though, I love it, it's the second best story of this entire series.

serenaac's review

4.0

In The Devil's Scribe, Lanore McIlvrae from The Taker meets with the one and only Edgar Allan Poe by chance in an expensive Baltimore hotel in 1846 after having been gone from America for the last 20 years. Poe describes himself as an orphan and a widower able to support himself as the "devil's scribe," but Lanny seems passingly interested in his life story and the fact that he's a writer. However, in spite of her preoccupation with why she came back to America, she walks with this stranger through the streets of Baltimore, careful not to reveal too much of herself to him.

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blackbibliophile's review

3.0

A short story about Lanore's return to America 20 years after entombing Adair. During her return she meets Edgar Allan Poe and she is the inspiration for 'The Cask of Amontillado'.

I love The Taker Trilogy, but this short story added nothing to the overall plot. The story is shorter than reported due to a preview of 'The Taker'.