Review: Scary Terrifying Spine-Chilling Terrific Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2012
"The Devil You Know" is a really good, scary story. If you are a fan of horror genre then you will enjoy this book.Julie Collins is a 17 year old normal high school senior that is dreaming about going away to college the following year, getting a swim scholarship, and hanging out with her best friend Marie-Do. She is an only child to loving and wealthy parents Vance and Diana and she feels she has had a great life up until now. He mother tells her that her dad has terminal cancer and wants to spend his final days in his childhood home located in the small town of Cape Nema. How can she deny him his final wishes, especially with all he has done for her, so with reservations she agrees to go...give up all she knows and loves including her best friend and swimming to spend her senior year in a small, nowhere school for her beloved father.Once they arrive at her father's childhood home, she at first thinks the house is great, it's a mansion, but all too soon everything begins to change. First she can't get a signal on her cell phone, then the internet does not work, the TVs have yet to arrive and if that isn't enough she now has to ride a yellow bus to school for the first time in her life because she had to leave her car in Chicago. If all this isn't bad enough the school is a 1-room school, the teacher is creepy, and the other students even creepier. Then to compound her isolation she has yet to hear one word from Marie-Do regardless of the amount of letters she has written her. However there is finally a bright spot in her life in the form of the `other' new kid...hunky Paul who just so happens to live across the lake from her and he has his own truck. He offers to drive her to and from school so that she will not have to continue that humiliation of riding the bus.Everything has changed in her life in such a short amount of time. Her parents went from loving to indifferent even cruel at times, strange things are happening to her to the point that she thinks she might be going crazy except things are also happening to Paul too. Can they work together to figure things out before something bad happens to them? Who is the boy she keeps dreaming about? Are they crazy or is the devil really real? And this is all I can say without giving anything away.Adrian Lilly's debut is a well written. He does a great job keeping the spookiness going to the very end. If you are a fan of this genre, if you are a fan of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, or John Saul then you will become a fan of Adrian Lilly and if his proceeding books are as good as this one then he will be the one to watch in the horror genre. So if you are a fan of this genre I urge you to pick up a copy of "The Devil You Know" and give this great book and talented author a try, I don't think you will be disappointed.4-StarsAnita (The Kindle Book Review)The KBR received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. We are not connected with the author, publisher, or Amazon in any way.