The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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Good news! The sequel to A Deal with the Devil was just as good, if not slightly better!! This one took me just slightly longer to read because I picked it up right as I was leaving work on Friday, and then well, it's next to impossible to read over the weekend. So it took me like...three days to swallow this one down, but omg. I could have read it in 5 hours like I did the first one! O'Roark is absolutely phenomenal at creating bickering characters that are perfect for each other. I loved reading Drew and Josh butt heads — they loved picking at each other and then all the sudden, Josh was protective. I love that in a hero, so...yes. Sign me up for more of this.

ANYWAY, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is Drew's story — she featured semi-regularly in A Deal with the Devil, but honestly, you don't need to read that one to understand what's going on here. It's very self-contained which is another great thing about these books. Regardless, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is about what happens when Drew is invited along to her on-again-off-again boyfriend's family's vacation. I never really caught on to why she agreed to go — Six made her so angry and upset — but she did go, and boy was that the right decision. I don't need to summarize this — it's all in the synopsis above.

I felt so bad for Drew almost the entire novel. She was so unhappy with her life and just sort of...muddled through it. She didn't know how to get out, how to make it better, or even that she could make it better until she really got to know Josh. He woke her up from her life. Watching him watch her, watching him take care of her in his own way... well, it was just...chef's-kiss amazing. Then you turn around and see how Six treated her. Oof. No comparison. I loved that Josh wanted Drew to fix her life for her, not so they could be together.

I wasn't a fan of the Somalia scenes just because it felt...rushed. How on earth did Drew have no idea how bad it was there? Felt a little forced and a lot White-savior-y. Unfortunate, and unnecessary.

I loved this book, and yes, I'm going right into the next one. Don't wait up for me!