4.5

As equally intense, character driven, gory, and horrifying as the first.
THE DEVIL BY NAME, the sequel to one of the best books I ever read FEVER HOUSE, doesn't disappoint. If there's an element missing from this one from the first it's that surprise factor that really takes FEVER HOUSE by storm. Here the storm is never-ending and relentless as the story of these few people stuck in the middle of the end of the world.

Ultimately, at the core of this, are themes of strengthening will and fully, sincerely the power love and hope can posses in times of complete and utter turmoil. And what a turmoil this is, as the devil and god exist, the book makes no qualms about the immense suffering an entire populace can be submitted to and how those in power will do anything to keep it. Corporate horror here is seriously some of the most spine-chilling stuff I've read all year.

Keith Rosson finds the heart at the core of it all and with that one of the best duologies I've had to pleasure to experience comes to an end.