I was supposed to review this for the tour hosted by Novel Publicity but had blog complications and wasn’t able to post.
Now that I’m up and running again I’d love to share Devil Music with you.
A special thanks goes out to Naomi. She posted my review as a Guest Post on her blog Naimeless during the tour. Stop by and check out her blog and say hi.
Devil Music
by Carly Orosz
My Review
I’m fascinated by demons. Fascinated and terrified by them. After reading the description for Devil Music, I was intrigued.
Cain is a demon. His master, Warwick, uses dark arts to bind him with a slave collar, and uses him for power and financial gain.
Under Warwick’s thumb, Cain is sent on errands. After which, his memory is wiped clean. He has no memories of the errand he’s been sent or of his previous life.
On his current errand, Cain impulsively buys a guitar and discovers a hidden talent. He skyrockets to rock music fame and breaks free from his master.
I wasn’t too keen on Cain at first. He seemed kind of wimpy for a demon. Then, I put together his wiped memories and the horrible abuse he suffered at the hands of his master, and came to understand the weight of his hopelessness. I was thrilled with his rise to stardom and his freedom. He even got a girlfriend and some solid friends. He had a life of his own.
Then, a serial killer starts stalking the music scene and Cain, along with his friends, must move quickly to discover the killer’s identity as the victim count rises and the killer draws near.
This was a huge book at over 700 pages. The beginning was a fast read as I met the characters and entered the author’s world.
The pace slowed down in the middle. Not much happened and I felt it would have been a great place to give us some background on the secondary characters, flesh them out more so I could connect better.
My curiosity kept me going as I started to get an idea who the killer might me. I needed to know what his motive was and had fun reading how the characters discovered the identity of the killer.
I didn’t get answers to all of my questions at the end. I did get enough to wrap up this plot but was left needing more. I wanted to know more about the other character’s lives. I wanted to know about Cain’s previous life and how the slavery changed him. Perhaps I’ll get those answers in the next book.
I was looking for a different kind of demon story and found one.
4 Stars
Thanks so much to Novel Publicity and Carly Orosz for the opportunity to read and review Devil Music and for being so understanding while my blog was down.
About the book
Cain Pseudomantis leads a miserable life. Bound to the mortal world by a powerful spell no demon could hope to break, he must obey his human master’s every command or face harsh punishment. He finds solace in the rock music which he listens to when he isn’t running unsavory errands for his master. Then everything changes. While on a mission in a seedy section of 1980s Los Angeles, Cain impulsively buys an electric guitar and discovers an unusual talent for music, a talent that catapults him to hair metal stardom. With three super-powered human band mates and his beautiful girlfriend Michelle by his side, his life starts to look a lot better. But Cain soon finds that even rock stars have troubles. The crusading televangelist Nathaniel Breen—who happens to be Michelle’s father—accuses him of turning the city’s youth to Satan worship. Meanwhile a mysterious killer known only as the Engineer terrorizes the Los Angeles rock scene with a series of brutal murders. When Cain and his friends attempt to unmask the killer, they discover a deadly secret that could cost Cain his hard-won freedom, and possibly his life.
Get Devil Music through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or iTunes.
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About the author
Carly Orosz lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with her husband. She graduated from Kalamazoo College and went on to earn an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry has been published in Wavelength Journal and SpoutMagazine. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, weaving on a hand loom, and studying the art and cultures of pre-Columbian Mexico.
Connect with Carly on her website, Facebook, Twitter,or GoodReads.
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