 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to 31 days of Halloween 2022. Today we are doing a book review first review of the month. If you don't know every Saturday and Sunday I am live streaming this month on Saturdays you will have a writing stream followed at 11 a.m central standard time followed by a Halloween themed game night trivia whatever I choose to do at 6 30 central standard time p.m. Saturday night and then on Sundays we'll be watching movies together we've already done it once so far yesterday and we will continue to do that if you want to vote on what movies we watch free on 2b this month we will be streaming every single Sunday I won't be streaming the film but I will be watching the movie with you guys that's why I chose 2b because you don't even need an account to watch movies over there completely free 100% free you do have to sit through ads but oh well what you're gonna do but today we are talking about the devil takes you home by Gabino Iglesias this book was highly anticipated by myself I've read zero saints I have yet to read coyote songs but I absolutely loved zero saints and this is just more of that goodness we are following a man called Mario as he navigates a very heavily supernatural story there's I say heavy but most of the supernatural stuff is is actually very subtle but don't go into this expecting a your average everyday thriller this is definitely a cult this is definitely supernatural so keep that in mind when you're reading the book starts off with Mario Mario's daughter has a very aggressive form of cancer and him and his wife are struggling financially emotionally physical all that stuff they are struggling they're not having a good time and the first section of this book is absolutely heart-rending the majority of this book is heart-rending what this man goes through trying to make ends meet trying to be a good father and things just keep going wrong I don't want to spoil a certain aspect but things pop off rather rather quickly and we find out the fate of his daughter daughter very very soon into the book and then it is a road trip into hell basically he Mario is tasked with with killing certain individuals he's a hit man he's working with a one one individual especially that really creep me out and then another individual that served served his purpose but the horror here is exceptional I will I will commend Iglesias on that a TLBW too long didn't watch I absolutely love this book I'm giving it five stars it is everything I look for in a supernatural thriller supernatural crime novel which there aren't very many of so I really appreciated that in the inside flap of the book it is said the devil takes you home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of SA Cosby Southern Noir blacktop wasteland by the way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Sylvia Marino Garcita and I would agree with that completely it felt very much like SA Cosby's books but with a supernatural twist and that's not to say that you know Gabino doesn't have his own style his own voice he most certainly does the voice that I fell in love with in Zero Saints is here the action and the climax and everything I really can't say anything bad about this book you will see reviews complaining about the politics that they're all over I don't I don't have to link you at all they're all over they're all over what Goodreads and even Amazon people upset because he mentions social commentary because he mentions things that actually happen there's a there's definitely a believability here especially living if you live in the southern United States and I believe the vast majority of this book takes place in Texas and Mexico I believe I could be wrong highly recommend the audiobook which is I got it on audible I use my credit for it I don't think I could find it on scribbed but if you're interested in a free month of scribbed click the link well yeah click the link down there in the doobly-doo you get a free month my kids get a free month it helps everybody out but yeah this one's on audible I highly recommend even though I have the hardcover I used it for my daily walks well actually my just my daily exercise period um and the audiobook is great the the book itself is good I jump back and forth um but truly come for the writing Gabino has a flair for the dark for the twisted but especially describing subtle horror that escalates into big horror um he doesn't over explain which I truly appreciate um nowadays it's horror seems to be either super vague to the point where everything is left wide open and there there's no conclusion whatsoever um and then you have other ones that you know explain away the horror far too much Gabino Iglesias definitely goes a Stephen King route he tells you just enough information and lets you decide for yourself uh the maybe the origins of certain things uh the bruja in this one whoo boy uh yeah the way they kept her um and what they did to her and then what she was capable of all that stuff just blew me away um I honestly have nothing bad to say about this book uh so yeah if you're looking for something dark sinister with a little bit of a crime thriller edge to it definitely check this one out um but that is all I have to say about this one I wish this review was longer uh but I it's so much easier to review a book negatively for me anyways because I have something to talk about in this one I am just gushing about everything that I loved um I would I would say I always give a word of warning if you're on the conservative side of things and you would get upset about or even the liberal side of things if you get upset about politics in the book you're probably gonna want to skip this one because there are a lot of mentions of those types of things um but I'm of the mindset that all art is political so I I don't know how you navigate uh fiction whatsoever um if you have a problem with politics um but mostly we all know it's usually the politics we disagree with that uh that we have a problem with um and in here I didn't have any issue with it whatsoever because I've seen these types of conversations I've seen these types of things firsthand uh and I know they exist and if you don't think they exist maybe go out you know talk then go out into the public uh a a lot more anyways but until next time I have been E you've been you this has been another episode of 31 days of halloween I'll talk to you guys later bye bye