Review: Deal with the Devil

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Nina is an information broker with a mission—she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive. They’re on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. They could burn down the world, destroying each other in the process… Or they could do the impossible: team up.

Genre: science fiction / science fiction romance

Publication date: July 2020

Mature content: yes

Review: I came across this book purely by chance, and I never expected to like it so much. Deal with the Devil is a mix of science fiction and urban fantasy, set in a semi-post apocalyptic future. It took me a while to get into it, but once I did I couldn't put it down anymore. 

 

My only two concerns were that shaky beginning (because you land in the middle of a whole new world with very few directions on how to navigate it, and at first it's difficult to understand and follow the plot) and the fact that while this is book one in a series called Mercenary Librarians, there are very few references to that particular side of Nina's work except in the first pages and at the very end. While the whole story in between is fast paced, suspenseful and riveting, I kept going back to what was supposed to be the main theme of the book and wondering what I was missing. 

 

As main characters go, Nina and Knox are the best, both separately and together, and their romance is a beautiful thing to read about as it unfolds.

 

 

 

 

 

In any case, the author cleverly weaves a plot where a lot of details are not what they seemed at first glance, and I definitely want to read the rest of the books in the series now.  

 

Happy readings,

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