Lora Beth Johnson

Battling the dangerous forces buried within their minds, Andra and Zhade will have to find a way to work together before two power-hungry leaders and a deadly swarm of rogue technology destroy humanity for good.

Devil in the Device

Ashley Holstine

I really enjoyed the first book but the sequel was a little underwhelming for me.

Samantha Bass

Check out my full review on my blog We Write at Dawn!

Thank you to Penguin Teen for sending me an e-ARC and a finished copy of Devil in the Device for review! This is a spoiler free, honest review and all thoughts and feelings are my own.

Picking up nearish where we left off, it’s been revealed that Andra is an AI (artificial intelligence) and is in hiding, Zhade has taken over and taken Maret’s face, Maret is currently imprisoned, and we have found the second goddess – Rashmi – and all the colonists. 

The ending of book one sent me into a spiral. Goddess in the Machine was a really good book, but it has a learning curve. We have a revised English language with new words and different grammar and it can be hard to get into. Once I started to get the hang of things, I thought it was kind of cool. I had to kind of reacquaint myself with book two, just because I hadn’t read the first book in over a year, but it was much easier for me to get into it this time.

If you are someone who doesn’t like several plot twists in one book, you’re not going to like this book. It’s one twist after another and all of these revelations just made my head spin! In a good way. By the end of this book, and the epilogue especially, I’m desperate for another book. A spin off. Something to continue this story line and what happens after … everything.

So, if you’ve read Goddess in the Machine and want to know what happens next, then pick up Devil in the Device! You will not expect ANYTHING that happens in this book, I promise you! Enjoy!

Kaele Perkins 

Updated Review:

OMG this was awesome! Such a crazy conclusion to this duology. It took a minute to get back to the language (I forgot that it’s a futuristic English dialect) but once I got used to it again everything was fine. I liked seeing Andra’s internal struggles and how she dealt with them. I missed Zhade. I loved seeing the old characters. So many plot twists!! The last 150 pages had me unable to put it down. The ending was great. I would’ve liked a little extra with Zhade and Andra but I was satisfied with it. THAT EPILOGUE. Are there going to be more books in this world?!? Such a fun, twisty, sci-fi duet that you should check out. And if you’ve already read Goddess in the Machine, definitely pick up the sequel! It’s just as amazing! 


Review; Before Release. 
I AM SO EXCITED FOR BOOK TWO. AND ZHADE IS ON THE COVER. I REPEAT, ZHADE IS ON THE COVER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. 2021 CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH. I CANNOT WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THE NEXT BOOK IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY HEART-WRENTCHING, INSANE SERIES!

Devil in the Device

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