Name: Speak of the Devil
ISBN: 9781250886934

Rose Wilding

A Novel

Speak of the Devil

Let me start off with a disclaimer; I don't read thrillers! The last one I read was god knows how long ago, and I generally don't have the patience for them. And yet, I had all the patience in the world for Rose Wilding's debut novel, Speak of the Devil.

Speak of the Devil is a tricky novel to write; it's not just that Jamie is despicable; the women are whole people. Each of them is the perfect victim for Jamie because, well, in the eyes of the law, each of them has a reason to be lying. Each of them is not the perfect victim for the legal system, as shown time and time again. She shows us why these women were easy for him to manipulate, and she doesn't inadvertently slut shame as she depicts them as human beings. Doing that is hard, and it takes a solid writer to do that consistently throughout the book. That whole thing with Ana and Olive; very few writers have the guts to play it like that and to play it well!

So with that, I don't want to write more on this book and inadvertently spoil it for you. You should go ahead and read it, even if you don't usually read books in the thriller category. It consistently maintains the voices of these very different women and doesn't confuse you because each is shown to be a very different person.

With that being said, the ending was one thing that I didn't vibe with. That's just a personal thing because I feel like a lot of people will enjoy that.

Seher Mohsin

Let me start off with a disclaimer; I don't read thrillers! The last one I read was god knows how long ago, and I generally don't have the patience for them. And yet, I had all the patience in the world for Rose Wilding's debut novel, Speak of the Devil.

Speak of the Devil is a tricky novel to write; it's not just that Jamie is despicable; the women are whole people. Each of them is the perfect victim for Jamie because, well, in the eyes of the law, each of them has a reason to be lying. Each of them is not the perfect victim for the legal system, as shown time and time again. She shows us why these women were easy for him to manipulate, and she doesn't inadvertently slut shame as she depicts them as human beings. Doing that is hard, and it takes a solid writer to do that consistently throughout the book. That whole thing with Ana and Olive; very few writers have the guts to play it like that and to play it well!

So with that, I don't want to write more on this book and inadvertently spoil it for you. You should go ahead and read it, even if you don't usually read books in the thriller category. It consistently maintains the voices of these very different women and doesn't confuse you because each is shown to be a very different person.

With that being said, the ending was one thing that I didn't vibe with. That's just a personal thing because I feel like a lot of people will enjoy that.

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