Devils Kill Devils is my second book from Compton and unfortunately both times both books just didn't work out for me. I will say The Spite House wasn't as nearly as bad as this one was.

I ran into the same issue I was having in The Spite House in Devils Kill Devils and that's, so much telling and so little showing. There was also the same issue of very little character conversations and interactions. Sure characters are in scenes together but we don't get to actually see them talk to each other enough. There were multiple times where conversations were told us, instead of just letting us see the characters have the conversations and this became so frustrating, as it lead the characters to not being fleshed out enough to really jump off the page and feel real.

There are long winded chapters where you are stuck in characters heads lamenting about their problems and how they handle it. Background info dumps of characters I could really care less about. I understand why they where there as a way to help build the story but ultimately they dragged it down.

The plot felt convoluted and all over the place which made me think constantly "what is the plot?". I was super bummed when it turned into a story about vampires, I was really into the idea of a Guardian Angel murdering people to protect his charge, but he also played so little in the overall story that that in itself was disappointing. The first chapter is explosive and frankly the best part of the whole story because after that it just plummets and then continues to spiral downward. There was a lot of ideas here and for me it wasn't executed in a good way.

*Thank you Netgalley and TorNightFire for an ARC