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A review by looseleafellie
Devil in the Device by Lora Beth Johnson
5.0
The twisty YA sci-fi Goddess in the Machine, about a girl frozen in time who wakes up a thousand years in the future to find herself being worshipped as a goddess, was one of my favorite reads last year. I tried to temper my expectations for this sequel, because second books are never as good as the first.
Well y’all, I am officially eating my words, because this book was EVERY BIT AS AMAZING as the first — maybe even better!
The new twists kept me turning the pages like lightning, and a couple of bombshell reveals totally blew my mind! The characters continued to develop beautifully, but I will always have a soft spot for my favorite ambitious disaster boy Zhade, who was just as disastrous and brilliant as ever.
The ending was beautiful and devastating and left me flattened in a puddle of my own emotions. So if you’ll excuse me, I need to go pick the pieces of my heart off the floor and then make a bunch of content recommending this duology to everyone on the Internet.
Thanks to Penguin Teen for the ebook ARC and finished copy!
CWs: Violence, blood, loss of autonomy (mind control), child abuse/neglect, death of a loved one, grief, alcohol use, fatphobia (mentioned).
Well y’all, I am officially eating my words, because this book was EVERY BIT AS AMAZING as the first — maybe even better!
The new twists kept me turning the pages like lightning, and a couple of bombshell reveals totally blew my mind! The characters continued to develop beautifully, but I will always have a soft spot for my favorite ambitious disaster boy Zhade, who was just as disastrous and brilliant as ever.
The ending was beautiful and devastating and left me flattened in a puddle of my own emotions. So if you’ll excuse me, I need to go pick the pieces of my heart off the floor and then make a bunch of content recommending this duology to everyone on the Internet.
Thanks to Penguin Teen for the ebook ARC and finished copy!
CWs: Violence, blood, loss of autonomy (mind control), child abuse/neglect, death of a loved one, grief, alcohol use, fatphobia (mentioned).