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The Merciless I & II

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Experience the terrfiying first two Merciless novels - the series MTV calls "Mean Girls meets "The Exorcist" - in one volume.

Sofia Flores should have known better.

In The Merciless , Sofia found herself friendless and lonely in a new school. She jumped at the chance to join pretty, popular Riley's clique of good girls. They told her they needed Sofia's help. Their former friend Brooklyn was going down a dark path and it was up to them to save her.

Sofia didn't realize they believed Brooklyn was possessed.

What happened that night changed Sofia. After, she was plagued by visions of blood and chains. Brooklyn's screams. Her own narrow escape.

Sofia hoped for a fresh start and in The Merciless II , she got her wish. When her mother died, Sofia was sent to St. Mary's, a Catholic boarding school where she planned to put her past behind her.

A new love named Jude looked like her chance at redemption. But when Sofia opened up to him about her past, Jude became convinced that they should find a way to save her soul...

The first two books in the Merciless series will have you up all night, Is there evil in all of us?

608 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2018

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Danielle Vega

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Danielle Vega is the author of THE MERCILESS and SURVIVE THE NIGHT. She's also the author of BURNING, under the name Danielle Rollins.

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January 5, 2019
Holy hell. Yeah I most definitely loved book 2 way more!!! It was so much better than the first book. I love the dark & twisted ending. Definitely going to order the rest of this series 😈 also I’m a little disappointed that goodreads marked this as just one book since they’re different books but eh whatever lol on to the next adventure 🤓📖
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Author 78 books238 followers
July 8, 2020
Here's my review of Merciless.

After reading the first book a few weeks ago and loving it, hubby ordered this collection for me. And because I really wanted to find out what was going to happen next, I decided to get stuck into it sooner than planned.

After Sofia's traumatic and very violent experience, she's jumpy, scared and feels very much alone. She also sees Brooklyn everywhere and is imagining a bunch of other weird things too. But at least she's got her mother.

Until something awful happens and she ends up in a Catholic boarding school...

Wow! I fell back into Sofia's unstable and twisted world as soon as I started.

This story doesn't waste any time. Things get serious right away, and Sofia finds herself in a devastating situation that throws her life into a new sort of chaos. An unimaginable situation that made me sad for her.

Lost and alone, she ends up in the one place where she starts to think she might find some salvation: in a Catholic school. And even though she makes new friends right away, this school has its own secrets and her past is never far behind.

I felt so bad for Sofia because she tries really hard to be good. She wants to belong and be a normal girl and actually makes friends easily, but it doesn't take long for her own thoughts to betray her. And even less to find she's fallen headfirst into another nightmare. This poor girl just can't catch a break. 😣

This book is as addictive as the first. I couldn't put it down. The tension builds quickly and the torture scenes were totally brutal, but fresh. So unexpected. Not to mention that the new cast of characters added a whole new dimension to everything. Whether they were good, bad or something else altogether, everything about this story kept me hooked from start to finish.

Oh, and the surprises don't stop coming until the very end. Yikes! That ending was something else. Seriously. 😳

The sequel turned out to be as unpredictable, sick and depraved as the first one. I loved every creepy minute of it. I'm a sucker for possession stories and this one does NOT disappoint. It's familiar enough to hit all of my favourite tropes, yet has its own unique quality that satisfied me at every step.

Danielle Vega sure knows how to write a wicked awesome horror tale that keeps the reader guessing until the last second.

I'm loving this series SO MUCH that hubby already ordered the next two books for me. I can't wait to find out what happens next...
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January 20, 2021
Okay so I read this copy which was 1 and 2 back-to-back and I can definitely see it as a teen version Mean Girls and exorcist put together as it has been marketed. It was not an easy read because of this disturbing content but yes it was very intriguing in a WTF way. Not sure if I will continue this series however.
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November 17, 2020
This is the craziest!
The insanity!
The wicked book I have traded in my eternal life!!
LO AME CON LOCURAAAAA!!!
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February 5, 2023
Pick Your Poison-The number four-cult Revolting, horrendous story of teen girls torturing and murdering to drive out the devil.
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