Reviews

There Is No Devil by Sophie Lark

emcurr1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.25

sarahmxrgan's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

j_readsbooks's review

4.0

Truthfully I didn’t care for the beginning of this, the spice was great but I wanted more story. It felt a little slow in the beginning but when things started happening they really started happening. I really liked learning more about Cole and Mara, they’re tragic backstories, they’re just two broken people helping to put each other together again and that was really beautiful. The way they described each other almost felt like poetry. I thought Cole was just a psychopath in the first book so I liked learning what made him that way. And hey, it turns out Mara is pretty similar after all.

haleyriesterer's review against another edition

3.0

They understood each other more in this which was nice but I really didn’t care about the Shaw murder plot. Wish these were reordered a bit or something bc of how little I cared about Shaw. 
Wrapped up nicely, almost too quickly in explaining how they got away with killing Shaw and also.. will anyone discover the bones still out there in Cole’s sculpture?

anaile's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

d_pttn2's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

teddyshaw_'s review against another edition

2.5

This book was good enough to hold my focus but felt like a bunch of tropes put together without much thought.

The plot felt very non-existent. It felt very far away and then it happened and felt quite anticlimactic. 

Both Cole and Mara got blander as the book went on. Cole's whole personality just went out the window in this book and the fire from Mara just left her body. The whole Hawke plot was mind blowing to me but it spiced up the plot. I felt no attachment to the Shaw who was supposed to be out to kill them. 

I think I give this a 2.5 just because the spice was pretty good. But don't get me started on the daddy kink that came from nowhere.

anniemartyn's review against another edition

1.0

idk why i thought it would be better than the first one

ashnoel's review

4.0

Wow... I'm very happy with how this ended and am glad it was a duology! Although I do wish we had found some information about Mara's real father. While it may not be a gap in the plot of the story... I'm sure that reconnection would have done wonders for her.

Randall got what he deserved.
Shaw got what he deserved.
Tori definitely got what she deserved.

Now I assume Cole is just giving up his killing ways? Especially since Hawks *solved* the case of the female murders that happened at the hands of the "Beast of the Bay". I mean Mara only wanted vengeance so I'm sure she finally gets her happy ending and does not have to commit more murders...

thebookconfessions's review

2.0

2.5⭐
This story didn't get better in the second book for me. Too messy, too rushed. I've read better books from this particular trope so I kept making comparisons. It was fast and intriguing enough for me to not DNF but not a story that blew me away.