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The Devil Made Me Do It
Missing girls. Brain dead victims. It can mean only one thing... there's another monster in town.
The Devil Made Me Do It, features Layla and Christian as they take down the next devilish beast, a master puppeteer.
As he begins to take down LA‘s residents, controlling every aspect of their lives, Layla and Christian must put their past behind them.
Follow Layla and Christian as they team up and take down a master puppeteer, in book two of The Shop Series.
The Devil Made Me Do It, features Layla and Christian as they take down the next devilish beast, a master puppeteer.
As he begins to take down LA‘s residents, controlling every aspect of their lives, Layla and Christian must put their past behind them.
Follow Layla and Christian as they team up and take down a master puppeteer, in book two of The Shop Series.
134 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 24, 2022
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Annalee Adams
38 books86 followersAnnalee Adams lives in England with her Husband, two children and a zoo worth of animals. She loves a good strong cup of tea or coffee, plenty of chocolate and binge watching her shows on Netflix.
Annalee began The Celestial Rose series while at University. She spent much of her childhood engrossed in fictional stories. Starting with teenage point horror books and moving up to the works of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. However, her all-time favourite book is Lewis Carroll's, Alice in Wonderland. Which explains her mindset quite well.
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Annalee began The Celestial Rose series while at University. She spent much of her childhood engrossed in fictional stories. Starting with teenage point horror books and moving up to the works of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. However, her all-time favourite book is Lewis Carroll's, Alice in Wonderland. Which explains her mindset quite well.
Join Annalee on TikTok, she posts regular videos and is slowly getting the hang of BookTok! You can find her under the name of: @author_annaleeadams
Find out more at: www.AnnaleeAdams.biz
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August 9, 2022
That girl Chelsea! It was 😭 going to read Stake Sandwich next to find out about Christian. It was 🔥
August 9, 2022
I enjoyed the second book in the series more than the first. Christian is to die for, but what’s with the puppet guy? Why make him so hot? Now I love a bad guy again 😂😂😂
July 26, 2022
If Buffy and Supernatural were to spawn offspring, The Devil Made Me Do It would be the progeny. This is the second book in the series. I must admit, I’ve not yet read the first one, but this is a standalone novel. The characters are likeable enough, so I got to know them quickly. Layla is a young hunter of the supernatural, she’s in a mildly spicy relationship with Christian, a ‘cured’ vampire. Her family run a café, and they’re all hunters, too. As the Winchesters might say: It’s the family business. In this story, they’re up against a puppet master. They are homicidal individuals with the ability to control others. In this case, they're making them commit suicide. My only gripe with this story is I wanted more! Fortunately, this is a series, and this group has plenty of scope for much more. Annalee has added another layer for exploration in future stories with Christian recruited into a group of supernatural entities working for the good guys. If you’re after vibes of the world-building in Grimm, the monster hunting of Supernatural, and Buffy's paranormal romance, this should be on your TBR list.
January 3, 2024
Disclaimer: I received this book for free by way of Advanced Reader Copy in return for my honest review.
Pros:
*This is book is really short and is a very quick read. My kindle estimated that it would only take me about an hour to read. If I had time, I would have been able to finish it in one sitting.
*The concept is really fun. To not give any spoilers, there is someone mysteriously controlling people and causing them to harm themselves and the characters have to figure out what it is.
Neutrals:
*So this, I just found out after reading this ARC, is the second book in the series. I wish I would have looked into that before I started reading it because I feel like it would have given better context to the novel. It says that you can read it as a standalone but I would definitely recommend reading the first one before taking on this one. There were quite a few references (plot and characters) to the last novel and I wasn't sure what was happening. I haven't read the first book, but I'm sure it would have answered those questions
Cons:
*Again, I thought that this book had an interesting concept but I felt like the multiple character perspective aspect wasn't needed. It was mostly told from Layla's point of view; two chapters were from Christian's point of view, three were from Chelsea's, and one was from "him," and the other eleven were Layla. While I really liked the chapters from the other person's point of view (often more than Layla's), there weren't enough of them to make it a worthwhile writing choice.
*Also, through these other chapters, it took away all the mystery. With Chelsea's story line, it would have been better to just have her story and then we as the reader figure it out with Layla. By doing it from Chelsea's perspective, the major question of the book was answered before the reader even knew it was a question. Was it a well-written fun scene? Yeah. But it created this dramatic irony that wasn't needed.
*The "him" chapter was totally not needed, honestly. Again, it was well written (and made me feel uncomfortable which was the point) but it wasn't conducive to anything with the plot. We don't see the "bad guys" until the very end and it's over quickly. We don't learn their motives, we don't learn anything about their powers, we don't even learn their names. I wasn't invested in them at all.
*The last Christian chapter where we find out what happened to him and how he survived, could have been left out. We could have thought he was actually dead, been surprised with Layla and then he could have just explained what happened. He has to explain it anyway and we had to read it again (although the information that he gives her is not what is said in the conversation he had, so where does he get all that info from?)
*Okay, this is probably personal, but the age gap... why? Layla is seventeen (but almost eighteen!) and Christian is "a century or two older." We don't even know how old he is, although I'm thinking really old because at one point he says "the christians could worship their god or gods depending on which year I think back to." Like... how old are you and why doesn't your teenage girlfriend know? I'm just so tired of this trope. I was a buffy fan, I read twilight, I've read ACOTAR and FBAA. I get it. But why do we have to have someone who isn't even legal or barely legal be with someone hundreds of years older than them? It's just feels a little pedo... you know. But, again, that's just me. She could have easily been 20 or so and it wouldn't have affected anything.
*I think my biggest issue was the plot. We spend the whole book hearing about how Layla is a hunter, but we don't see any of that until the very end. The climax where we finally see the bad guys and what they're doing comes on so abruptly, I had to read the page twice to make sure I didn't miss something. It was jarring because basically nothing was happening leading up to it. And all the sex (which is fade to black except for the end). It's all sexual innuendos and flirting, Christian literally can't think of anything else and neither can Layla apparently. She literally thinks her entire family is dead at one point and is in tears and then sees Christian and is like... my family who? Let's go home and have sex. I could have traded half the lead up to the fade to black sex scenes to learn more about the big bads, their motives, even their names. We could have had more than one scene where we were actually invested.
I think this book needs one more editing session, personally. Plot aside, there were quite a few grammatical errors and inconsistencies from chapter to chapter (like saying they went all the way home and the next chapter starting with them still where they were, taking separate cars and then in the next chapter all being in the same car, or Layla saying that she heard something and then later in that chapter she's surprised when someone mentions the very thing to her). Also, at one point a group of girls is getting attacked and the men are described as "one dark, one light." Why do we have to do this? The way that they were described felt like casual racism.
I think that if this went through one more editing session and these problem were fixed, it would be a solid 4, but at this point in the process, I give it a soft 2.
Pros:
*This is book is really short and is a very quick read. My kindle estimated that it would only take me about an hour to read. If I had time, I would have been able to finish it in one sitting.
*The concept is really fun. To not give any spoilers, there is someone mysteriously controlling people and causing them to harm themselves and the characters have to figure out what it is.
Neutrals:
*So this, I just found out after reading this ARC, is the second book in the series. I wish I would have looked into that before I started reading it because I feel like it would have given better context to the novel. It says that you can read it as a standalone but I would definitely recommend reading the first one before taking on this one. There were quite a few references (plot and characters) to the last novel and I wasn't sure what was happening. I haven't read the first book, but I'm sure it would have answered those questions
Cons:
*Again, I thought that this book had an interesting concept but I felt like the multiple character perspective aspect wasn't needed. It was mostly told from Layla's point of view; two chapters were from Christian's point of view, three were from Chelsea's, and one was from "him," and the other eleven were Layla. While I really liked the chapters from the other person's point of view (often more than Layla's), there weren't enough of them to make it a worthwhile writing choice.
*Also, through these other chapters, it took away all the mystery. With Chelsea's story line, it would have been better to just have her story and then we as the reader figure it out with Layla. By doing it from Chelsea's perspective, the major question of the book was answered before the reader even knew it was a question. Was it a well-written fun scene? Yeah. But it created this dramatic irony that wasn't needed.
*The "him" chapter was totally not needed, honestly. Again, it was well written (and made me feel uncomfortable which was the point) but it wasn't conducive to anything with the plot. We don't see the "bad guys" until the very end and it's over quickly. We don't learn their motives, we don't learn anything about their powers, we don't even learn their names. I wasn't invested in them at all.
*The last Christian chapter where we find out what happened to him and how he survived, could have been left out. We could have thought he was actually dead, been surprised with Layla and then he could have just explained what happened. He has to explain it anyway and we had to read it again (although the information that he gives her is not what is said in the conversation he had, so where does he get all that info from?)
*Okay, this is probably personal, but the age gap... why? Layla is seventeen (but almost eighteen!) and Christian is "a century or two older." We don't even know how old he is, although I'm thinking really old because at one point he says "the christians could worship their god or gods depending on which year I think back to." Like... how old are you and why doesn't your teenage girlfriend know? I'm just so tired of this trope. I was a buffy fan, I read twilight, I've read ACOTAR and FBAA. I get it. But why do we have to have someone who isn't even legal or barely legal be with someone hundreds of years older than them? It's just feels a little pedo... you know. But, again, that's just me. She could have easily been 20 or so and it wouldn't have affected anything.
*I think my biggest issue was the plot. We spend the whole book hearing about how Layla is a hunter, but we don't see any of that until the very end. The climax where we finally see the bad guys and what they're doing comes on so abruptly, I had to read the page twice to make sure I didn't miss something. It was jarring because basically nothing was happening leading up to it. And all the sex (which is fade to black except for the end). It's all sexual innuendos and flirting, Christian literally can't think of anything else and neither can Layla apparently. She literally thinks her entire family is dead at one point and is in tears and then sees Christian and is like... my family who? Let's go home and have sex. I could have traded half the lead up to the fade to black sex scenes to learn more about the big bads, their motives, even their names. We could have had more than one scene where we were actually invested.
I think this book needs one more editing session, personally. Plot aside, there were quite a few grammatical errors and inconsistencies from chapter to chapter (like saying they went all the way home and the next chapter starting with them still where they were, taking separate cars and then in the next chapter all being in the same car, or Layla saying that she heard something and then later in that chapter she's surprised when someone mentions the very thing to her). Also, at one point a group of girls is getting attacked and the men are described as "one dark, one light." Why do we have to do this? The way that they were described felt like casual racism.
I think that if this went through one more editing session and these problem were fixed, it would be a solid 4, but at this point in the process, I give it a soft 2.
June 6, 2024
The more I read the more I want
The deeper I go into the shop series along with resurgence and the firewolf chronicles the more invested I get in the outcome. It's a fantastic series and I love that the three series make up different branches of the same story
The deeper I go into the shop series along with resurgence and the firewolf chronicles the more invested I get in the outcome. It's a fantastic series and I love that the three series make up different branches of the same story
September 12, 2022
This book is number two of The Shop Series. When one of Layla’s classmates starts behaving strangely, and shortly after several others do too, She and her boyfriend enlist the help of her parents and several other monster hunters gather to see who is causing these kids to commit suicide.
This was the second book I have read by this author. It can be read as a standalone, but I wish I had read the first book in the series to have a little more background on our main characters, Layla and Christian. I look forward to reading many more books from this author.
I received this book in exchange for my honest review.
This was the second book I have read by this author. It can be read as a standalone, but I wish I had read the first book in the series to have a little more background on our main characters, Layla and Christian. I look forward to reading many more books from this author.
I received this book in exchange for my honest review.
March 12, 2023
Absolutely awesome
I only bought this yesterday I couldn’t wait to find out what happened so I read it all in 2 days I’m going to read Stake Sandwich next so can’t wait
I only bought this yesterday I couldn’t wait to find out what happened so I read it all in 2 days I’m going to read Stake Sandwich next so can’t wait
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