Reviews

The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

sarahreadsaverylot's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

4.5

cekrall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

michaellortz's review against another edition

5.0

I discovered this book by following Gabino on twitter. He is an awesome voice in the writing community. So I bought his book.
Wow. This book is a creepy ride through the eyes of a struggling man. It is dark, violent, and emotional. Gabino's Devil is not a kind soul at all.
Seeing all these reviews of varied perspectives is interesting. I can't imagine ever giving a novel a 1. Writing is hard work and if the writer's idea didn't click with the reader, don't bash the idea, find a new read.

trin's review against another edition

2.0

Sigh. Because there are racists on here giving this book low ratings because they don't like books calling out systemic racism or for some reason are magically offended that, in a splattery horror novel, white criminals are killed (weirdly I bet they are fine when this happens in, oh, every action movie ever), I feel like I need to clarify that these are not the reasons I don't like this book.

I don't like it because Iglesias doesn't really seem to get that women are people, not props. Also for the brief, tired transphobia.

So yeah, actually it's not woke enough for me!

Also I found the plot cartoonish and the writing bad, so. Whomp whomp.

megsilently's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

btaylor131's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

ashleys_library's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

1.0

dylmelts's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

jasisreading's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

this book had potential but somewhere between the third act

where mario k*lls brian

and the climax where

mario confronts juanca and ends up dead

, the book went in a direction I don't believe was bulit up thematically.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Gun violence, Child death, and Drug abuse

bleepbloop's review against another edition

dark

3.75

good. really gory.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, and Body horror