Review: The Devil's Prayer

The Devil's Prayer by Luke Gracias
My rating:  4 of 5 stars

Blurb -

A nun commits suicide in front of thousands in Spain. In Australia, Siobhan Russo recognises that nun as her mother, Denise Russo, who disappeared six years ago. 

In search of answers, Siobhan travels to the isolated convent where her mother once lived. Here she discovers Denise’s final confession, a book that details a heinous betrayal that left her crippled and mute, and Denise’s subsequent deal with the Devil to take revenge. In the desperate bargain Denise made with the Prince of Darkness, she wagered Siobhan’s soul. 

As Siobhan discovers the fate of her soul, she learns that hidden within the pages of her mother’s confession is part of The Devil’s Prayer, an ancient text with the power to unleash apocalyptic horrors. 

And now her mother’s enemies know Siobhan has it. 

Can Siobhan escape an order of extremist monks determined to get the Prayer back? Can she save the world from its own destruction? 

Explicit Content Warning: "The Devil’s Prayer" is a historical horror thriller that contains brutality, rape, sex, drug abuse and murder. Readers may find its content offensive and confronting.

My views -

The Devil's Prayer by Luke Gracias is an historical thriller with the story style of Dan brown, Why I compared with Dan brown is because his books are more like a thesis and travel guide. It makes you to learn and explore various new things. This book also given me the same feelings made me to explore Brisbane to half of the European countries.

As the title and blurb story is about the devil and its dominant over Denise, a middle age women. The story divides into four parts, first part says about a suicide of nun at Spain and Siobhan Denise's daughter in Australia decides to search for answers by going all the way to Europe alone.

In second part Siobhan gets her mother's dairy where it have all answers of why she left her family what terrible past she gone through and how the winning lottery ticket made her a mess.

In third part author lets out the quest for Siobhan's searches true reasons of what she went through and dominance of letting devil in her own knowledge.

In part four author ends all the searches and quest by stating the remedy for breaking through the devil's castle.

In all this four parts author narrated in a good pace and Lucid language which made me to go through till last page and keen information's about all the historical places and also pictures presented where so helpful to go with pace and understanding.

Even though a fiction author made it looks like realistic with historical reasons and stories of popes to Jengis Khan. Also the stories of devil's underhand in various centuries where proof to his researches.

Overall, The Devil's Prayer is an interesting story to hung up yourself. I liked it most, whether its simple and detailed story telling or thrill he maintains or while uttering the most pain of women during and after she raped I had all of them.

I didn't told the full story I'm leaving the choice of exploring this to yourself.

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