Review: Dance With The Devil

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Tobias Richter, the fearsome VP of Security of the TechCorps is dead. The puppetmaster is gone and the organization is scrambling to maintain control by ruthlessly limiting Atlanta's access to resources, hoping to quell rebellion. Our band of mercenary librarians have decided that the time for revolution has come. Maya uses her wealth of secrets to weaken the TechCorps from within. Dani strikes from the shadows, picking off the chain of command one ambush at a time. And Nina is organizing their community—not just to survive, but to fight back. When Maya needs to make contact with a sympathetic insider, Dani and Rafe are the only ones with the skill-set and experience to infiltrate the highest levels of the TechCorps. They'll go deep undercover in the decadent, luxury-soaked penthouses on the Hill. Bringing Dani face-to-face with the man who turned her into a killer. And forcing Rafe to decide how far he'll go to protect both of his families—the one he was born to, and the one he made for himself. Victory will break the back of Power. Failure will destroy Atlanta.

Genre: science fiction / science fiction romance

Publication date: August 2022

Mature content: yes

Review: Dance With The Devil is book three in the Mercenary Librarians series by Kit Rocha, and closely follows Deal with the Devil (book 1) and The Devil You Know (book 2) It's hardly a book to be read as a sand alone. 

Of the three books, though, this was the hardest for me to read. While there are a lot of great scenes, especially the action parts, there are several plot angles that did not make sense to me at all from a strategic point of view - and that turned the whole story much harder to believe. 

 

The romance between Dani and Rafe is good, and I was happy to finally see them getting their happy ending, but it's also very much predictable, since we've been hearing about it almost since the beginning of book one.

 

If Dance With The Devil were a stand alone book, I would not actively recommend it. As it's supposedly the conclusion of the trilogy (even though the epilogue raises considerable doubt, in my opinion, on whether there will still be at least another book), if you've read and liked the previous two books then you should not miss this one. 

 

Happy readings,

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