Review: Definitely wasn't the book for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
After reading the prequel, Burning, I had high hopes for this book.  I was very impressed with the short prequel.  But, unfortunately, The Devil You Know fell short of my expectations.  I found the prequel was more captivating and more interesting to me than this story.  I absolutely hate, hate, hate to give review copies negative reviews, but unfortunately it seems as though this is going to be one of those dreaded times.I thought the story as a whole felt incomplete. It was very short (148 pages) and a lot of things could have been expanded upon.  The character development wasn't up to par.  I don't feel like I really got to know Dez or Michael as well as I should have.  I also thought the world-building wasn't done as well as it should have been.  It left me with a bunch of questions.  With all the types of fantastical creatures co-existing together, it would have been nice to have more of an explanation about this world. For example, in this story, the demons seem to be bad/evil, while vampires and half-demons seem to be good.  But, is that only a rare case of them? Or are all vampires and half-demons good and go after the evil demons?  I have no clue.  The story definitely could have benefited from more explanation of this aspect.Both main characters, Dez and Michael are extremely gorgeous and your stereo typical "hot" paranormal main characters. Of course. That's just boring to me. I want my characters to be imperfect and original.  But, that's just my opinion.  I'm sure that a lot of readers like their main characters to be dreamed up this way.The writing was immature and weak.  But, Gregoire is just getting started, so I'm sure she will improve as time goes on.  (Though, it's weird that I didn't notice this being an issue in Burning).  The story-telling wasn't able to pull me into the story or captivate me.  Honestly, I was quite bored with the story as a whole and even skimmed parts.  Even the big fight scene at the end, that the whole story was leading up to, seemed like it was cut short; I found it to be very dull and it left me disappointed.  Oh, and there were also several errors that weren't caught and corrected through the proofreading/editing process.Random thought about a part in the story:  I thought it was weird how Dez decides that they need to hold off on sleeping together after their first slip sleeping together, because she felt it was rushing into things and they needed to build on their relationship before going that far again.  That's all fine and dandy, BUT they've already been friends for OVER 4 CENTURIES!  What more does she want?  They already know each other, so it's not like they "need to get to know each other".  I don't know; I just found that to be odd reasoning.  He quickly agreed to her reasoning, also.