Review: Dark fantasy at its best
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
This will be my last review for the Niki Slobodian series and I’m a bit nervous about writing it, mainly because I'm an avid reader and a useless writer. In previous reviews I always thought that my next review would be better but there will be no next one, this is it!It’s with much sadness that I say farewell to Niki Slobodian, Bobby Gage and Lucifer. I opened this book filled with anxiety as I was wondering what J.L. Murray would dish out and how much of a bang she was going to create, because I knew there would be a bang. What I found instead was more than a bang, it was a major explosion and my ears are still ringing two days after finishing the book.I’m not telling anyone what the book is about (please refer to the blurb for that) but I can tell you that this book was beyond expectations, and my expectations are very high for this author. The Devil’s Backbone was a wonderfully well balanced combination of a beautiful opera and a heavy metal concert.It’s richly dark and the constant action and suspense takes you through a variety of emotions until the very last page. The old and new characters alike are elaborate and complex, deserving your full attention. Nothing is really as it seems and the roads you travel while reading The Devil’s Backbone are filled with adventure and questions and each new page brings new emotions right to the end.What a magnificent farewell to Niki Slobodian, I could not have hoped for a better book than this.