The Devil's Bible by Steve BerryMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thanks to Netgalley and Grand Central for the pre-release copy of The Devil's Bible by Steve Berry. Below is my honest review.
This one is Berry at his best, even though it's brutal and heartbreaking and nerve-wracking and stressful. There was a lot of intrigue in this one, like usual, but The Devil's Bible had quite a few layers of plots and schemes. Luckily, they weren't convoluted, so they were easy to follow, and watching Cotton, Vitt, and Nelle untangle the knotted web of alibis and deception was entertaining. We had a lot of past to revisit in this one as well, with references and discussions of the events of books gone by.
I had some issues with the sheer volume of sentence fragments and questions missing question marks, but I'm hoping many of those were or will be caught with final passes before publication. Not sure why Berry has suddenly started using fragments so often (one page is almost entirely sentence fragments!) in his last few books. Maybe he always did and I just didn't notice. I'm not sure.
Anyways, the ending of this one was world-shifting, so I'm interested to see where Cotton's story goes from here and how things will work moving forward.
Four and a half stars, rounded up. Highly recommended for fans of political intrigue and action movies with historical references, etc mixed in. I'd very much suggest reading the rest of the series first, as this one is built on LOTS of past history and ties up some MAJOR threads. But that's up to you, dear reader.
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