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The Devil's Only Friend continues the story of John Cleaver as he navigates a world filled with demons and supernatural threats. Despite the graphic violence and intense emotional turmoil, the book offers a deep and engaging plot with plenty of character development. The story delves into the struggles of John Cleaver, a complex and twisted protagonist, as he battles his inner demons while facing external challenges.
John Wayne Cleaver's character is portrayed as a teenage protagonist with dark tendencies, providing a unique perspective on his struggles with his own nature and the supernatural forces around him. The book introduces new elements of fantasy and world-building, making it feel more epic compared to the previous entries in the series.
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John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can . . .
. . . but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war.
John doesn't want the life he's stuck with. He doesn't want the FBI bossing him around, he doesn't want his only friend imprisoned in a mental ward, and he doesn't want to face the terrifying cannibal who calls himself The Hunter. John doesn't want to kill people. But as the song says, you can't always get what you want. John has learned that the hard way; his clothes have the stains to prove it.
When John again faces evil, he'll know what he has to do.
The Devil's Only Friend is the first book in a brand-new John Wayne Cleaver trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells.
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I blew through this thing in two days and wanted to read it all over again straight away. John Cleaver stands apart from the rest of the YA protagonist crowd because he's a sociopath, and he knows it; but this also makes him sort of the ultimate teenager. His condition doesn't mean he doesn't have feelings, he just doesn't have empathy. When he feels, he feels hard. His emotions go from 0 to 900 miles an hour in a second. He's basically the perfect metaphor for teenage hormones and the confusion people go through in their teen years regarding their sense of self.
In this new book, John has joined a team of government agents who are hunting the demons John previously took on alone. Needless to say, they cramp his style. We learn a lot more about the demons' origins, which is cool, but this book is so much more. It's a crime novel, a bildungsroman, a mini
Usual Suspects. You will get Keyser Soze'd so hard.
While I do find it hard to believe that John is so good at being the one person who can kill 10,000 year old creatures, he beats them because he can think like them. And in this book, we see more sides of the Withered (as they are called here) and consequently more sides of John. He isn't a one-trick pony anymore. I can't wait to see what he does next.
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