CB12’s Reviews > The Devils > Status Update

“ if a thing hasn’t ended, you haven’t waited long enough”… I’m a hater but Jacob has some bangers

Even though we’re in act IV and there’s like 5 hours left of the audiobook, this section is the strongest for me.

I’m just not a quest story person, I need political machinations

Kind of crazy how every act of this book ends with a battle of Jakob dueling one of the brothers to the death — the plot just feels so formulaic, like defeat one boss, another boss comes up etc etc etc

Okay but “you need to stop clinging to the notion that there’s only one right path. You’ll spend half your time panicking you’re not on it, and the rest backtracking to find it” is a banger

I have to finish this book before the end of September

Why does every character have the same sarcastic sense of humor, I’m tiredddd

The politics around Alex being the empress feels secondary to the HAR HAR “getting one’s head chopped off is a very unpleasant way to die” ass humor

I know every book is contrived to get characters in a certain space for certain scenes, but the placement of the shipwreck in act 3 and splitting the characters up so certain groupings/ couples can have scenes together feel so transparent to me

And I’m a dummy so this is a petty complaint but there’s too many characters whose titles/names start with the letter B and I’m getting them confused lol

I think i’m also closing in on the fact that travel/ quest/“the friends we made along the way” kind of stories are just not for me.

Also the gore is not really saving it because sadly i think this type of humor in a violent fantasy world comes across a little corny to me 🫣

I could also dnf, but I won’t allow myself to do that unfortunately