A review by lemonsandligaments
The Devil's Prayer by Luke Gracias

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This book is a very entertaining read, starts off with a mystery - a missing person, and spends the rest of the book unravelling the details, keeping you in suspense the whole time.

It felt like two books rolled into one

the first being the mother’s backstory and the second being all the Amalric and Zachary stuff (how the Devil’s Prayer came about)

. Even thought I read those parts in succession, they did end up feeling like really different storylines, with Siobhan and Denise slowly becoming more irrelevant towards the end.

The world building is nice, I like how it weaves into actual events that happened in real life, like the mongols suddenly turning back and the existence of the devil’a encyclopaedia.

Denise’s backstory is

I think the most gripping part of the book. Her revenge plot was also incredibly satisfying. The part about Simon being truly innocent struck me. I find that the concept of God abandoning someone to be tricked by the devil is really unfair, and as with most things, can be viewed as a good or bad plot line

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I enjoyed this book thoroughly till maybe 70% in, the remaining 30% was ok but I was so invested in the first 70% I was hoping that there’ll be more on that rather than delving in so much into the past.

The book ends on a cliffhanger, which I do not mind.