 Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to another book review. I don't want to be here today. I don't want to be reviewing this book. This is highly unfortunate and to the author if you and you will you send me this book for review. If you come across this review I have nothing but the utmost respect for you and I absolutely loved your novel hag. This, the lightning didn't strike twice. Let me just put it that way. I will try to be respectful in this review but I doubt you are going to like what I have to say. So on with the review, I read Devil. That's the pronunciation I guess in Gaelic for this. I'm not entirely sure. It might be another language but I'm pretty sure it's Gaelic. Gaelic and Navajo are used in this book. But yeah, it says back here a D I A B H A L is pronounced devil. So that's one problem that I'm going to go ahead and throw out there right now. Much of this book, not much of it. There's not whole sections written in Gaelic but there's a lot of Gaelic or Navajo. I'm not sure which as part of the problem with a lot of the passages in here are written in another language that I do not read, that I do not understand. This is not an e-book. This is not something that I could look up. Even when I got to words that I couldn't look up, I still had words that I could look up. I still had the problem. I don't know if it's going to focus but had words like that. If it doesn't focus then I will show you. I will put up a picture but there were big X's inside the words and I couldn't see the actual words and that's the formatting from the publisher. The publisher had a problem and the formatting is broken. This is an uncorrected advanced review copy so there's bound to be errors in it. This is not the finished product. I do not expect those errors to be in the finished product but I couldn't even look the words up and there were so many of them. There were at least nine that I counted. I'm sure there's others. There was at least nine that I found that I couldn't even look up what these things were called to look up the lower whatever it was and very few times did the author say this is what this means. There was a one point in time where I was reading with two other people, one of them quit the book and the other one ended up not liking it either. I was reading with them and the person who quit it said, hey, the world building here is where I can't figure any of this stuff out. I'm done and the answers to the questions about what those just two words meant didn't come until chapter 23 and she ended up quitting the book like chapter 10. So 13 chapters before any of that stuff was explained. The book does start off amazingly. I had a great time with the book for probably the first hundred pages and then something happened. As soon as we start seeing more of Kate's powers or whatever it is, as soon as she gets to the to the home and we start seeing what she's capable of, I started losing interest and I guess one of the reasons for that is because I didn't have anybody on the page to like. Nobody. I realized all of a sudden I don't care what happens to any of these people and that was highly, highly unfortunate because I had several people that I had to follow and I kept forgetting who whole people were. One of those things is because I know that I was mispronouncing names so I was just pretty much blowing through names so I didn't know how to pronounce them in my head and if it wasn't for another friend of mine, one of the other readers, the lady who did finish the book telling me that C-E-I-T is pronounced Kate in Gaelic, I never would have found that out. I would have continued to call her and this is my stupid American brain here folks. C-E-I-T or C-E-I-T whatever. And that's just me, I'll be completely honest if that's on me that I didn't know how to pronounce that name but it just aggravated me because there were a lot of words in there that I knew that I was pronouncing wrong just because I didn't, like there's my stupid American brain does not look at this and see devil. I see diabol, something like that. That's what I see. Now that's my failing, not expanding my knowledge but also there needs to be something in here, you know, even if it's, I know you can't just straight out go oh and it's pronounced this way inside the book, maybe have someone mispronounce it in the book and have them explain how to pronounce those things. Another big problem I have with this book is there is absolutely no sense of place. This book happens in Los Angeles at no point in time that I think that I was in Los Angeles. This is a modern-day book at no point in time did it feel like a modern-day book. Everybody in the book talks like it's, you know, old olden days and then someone will break out a cell phone and I'll just be completely confused. There were some funny things while I was reading. I'm not trying to make fun of the book but my friend Tracy said, ha ha, cult de sac. I got a kick out of that because the book is about a cult that lived on a cult de sac and it's just something I smile at. I think the biggest problem here and the thing that upset me the most I think is the ending. We get all of this buildup and all of this promise especially on the back cover copy which I'm going to read here in a second. You get all these promises for certain things that, if I'm honest, the description writes checks the book can't cash or does not cash and one of those things is the ending. I was expecting some big climactic ending and it was all wrapped up literally in three pages. I kept on, I was like, okay I'm eight pages from the end, something's about to happen. Seven, six, five, four, nothing man and then finally there at the end it just gets slapdash just thrown together at least that's what it feels like and if I'm completely honest with you I got this for free from the publisher and the author. I'm upset because I had high expectations and high hopes for this one and this is nowhere near as good as hag. The writing isn't even anywhere near as good as hag. Now I can't talk about too, I can't talk about the writing too much because this is an uncorrected advanced reader's copy but there was a lot of stuff in here that I feel needed to be rewritten, like whole paragraphs, whole chapters that needed to be rewritten. It almost feels like a book that was written under a deadline and she just had to crank it out. I'm speculating but that's what it feels like and that's never a good thing with a book like this. Once again I have a great deal of respect for the author and I absolutely hate that we're here having this review, doing this review like this, it breaks my heart but I have to be honest with the people who follow me and the people who listen to me. I didn't care for this book, I'm sure someone else may, I'm sure there will be a lot of people who do end up liking it and most of those people will probably not be writers. There are too many issues with the build of the car, I should say, just the basic structure of the building is off for me and that was a lot of the problem. Will I go back and reread the final version? I'm not sure, I don't feel like I want to and that's unfortunate. Will I read another Kathleen Kaufman book? Most definitely. I'm all over her back catalog and anything else. It takes several books for me. Hag was so good it would take several books to suck before I gave up on this author. Another one for review? I doubt it man, but that doesn't matter because I bought Hag with my own money also. Have you read Devil? Did you like it? If you did like it, let me know exactly what you liked about it. If you didn't like it, let me know exactly what you didn't like about it down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!