Name: Devil in Ohio
ISBN: 9781250113610

Daria Polatin

Mae moves in with fifteen-year-old Jules' family and seems to be taking over her life, but Mae's past in a nearby cult soon threatens them all.

Devil in Ohio

trixie

2.5/5

when authors stop making the characters i’m supposed to like/empathize with unlikable then i will know peace

So this girl (her name is Mae) moves in with this family after being thrown out of a vehicle bloody and bruised and starts life with them. Slowly she starts copying everything the middle child (her name is Jules) likes and wears. It’s starting to get weird. Turns out Mae is/was part of a satanic cult and she’s escaped. So she’s trying to live her life meanwhile jules is trying to get hers back after Mae starts messing things up. Mom has all her attention on new girl and doesn’t realize she has other kids. Dad doesn’t feel comfortable with Mae around and things just get worse because the cult wants her back and they are sending signs that they are coming for her! I loved this book and couldn’t put it down. The only reason I did was because of work and sleep. 10/10 would so recommend 

Kaitlyn Grooms

"Devil in Ohio kept me up until 3 a.m. with the lights on–in a good way. It’s a haunting thriller for readers who like fear, humor, and heart in one package."—Meredith Goldstein, advice columnist and feature reporter for The Boston Globe, author of upcoming YA novel Chemistry Lessons. "Gripping, urgent and addictive, Devil in Ohio balances the dark exploration of cults with a compelling and often humorous take on teen social dynamics. This is the debut you won’t want to miss."—Aditi Khorana, author of critically acclaimed The Library of Fates and Mirror in the Sky When fifteen-year-old Jules Mathis comes home from school to find a strange girl sitting in her kitchen, her psychiatrist mother reveals that Mae is one of her patients at the hospital and will be staying with their family for a few days. But soon Mae is wearing Jules’s clothes, sleeping in her bedroom, edging her out of her position on the school paper, and flirting with Jules’s crush. And Mae has no intention of leaving. Then things get weird. Jules walks in on a half-dressed Mae, startled to see: a pentagram carved into Mae’s back. Jules pieces together clues and discovers that Mae is a survivor of the strange cult that’s embedded in a nearby town. And the cult will stop at nothing to get Mae back.

Devil in Ohio

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