The Devil's Bible: A Novel (The Bohemian Trilogy) Kindle Edition

The Devil’s Bible is the sequel to Dana Chamblee Carpenter’s best seller Bohemian Gospel. I highly recommend you read or listen to it first. Both books were very well researched in terms of the time periods and the very complicated politics in addition to the Church history. In the first book, Mouse, the main character, was a very unusual female for the time period. She was better educated than most women at the time. It is not her education that struck me as much as her spirit. She was trying to live a life of her own choosing.Mouse is changed in the second book, The Devil’s Bible. Her spirit seems very damaged, if not broken. She is not living as much as surviving. She forms no ties with anyone or anything. She lives a life of simplicity that she can flee at a moment's notice. She is more of a shadow of a person than a person. While I understand why she felt she had to live that way, I really did not like Mouse like that. It made me angry. Ever wish you could jump into a book and save your favorite character? That is how I felt, like I needed to reach it and tell Mouse I would help her. I was so glad when she decided to fight to regain herself, she was more like the Mouse from the first book.There are so many plot points that I cannot discuss because they are spoilers, especially for someone who hasn’t read the first book. Mouse is a character steeped in mystery and mythology. She is not wholly human as though it is what she longs to be. The characters she interacts with are human and non-human. I love Mouse and really like both books.Tantor Media had given me the first book and then offered me this one in exchange for an honest review. I was happy to accept. Justine Eyre is wonderful. Her voice has a musical quality to it. I found I could not listen to it in bed because I fell asleep. Otherwise I had to have a quieter atmosphere than usual. I think it was because of the complexity of the plot. Ms. Eyre does such a fine job of clearly enunciating every word. So it is totally my fault that I could not binge listen to it even though the story was enticing.I would recommend both Bohemian Gospel and The Devil’s Bible narrated by Justine Eyre to anyone who enjoys historical fiction, mystery and paranormal fantasy.

I mean wonderful in the full meaning, this book is full of wonders. The character of Mouse is so realistic that I have come to anticipate more stories. As a follow-up to Bohemian gospel it expounds Mouse more fully and allows the reader an in-depth look into her character and humanity. Highly recommended and eagerly awaiting a sequel.

I ordered it Saturday night, having been put off by the price, though I loved the first book. Due to some glitch, it didn't download until Sunday morning. Actually glad for the glitch. I never would have gotten to sleep if I'd started it Saturday night.Allll I did Sunday was read. Couldn't stop.(Be sure to read "Bohemian Gospel" first)Wonderfully understated, the only way to handle the subject matter.She ( Dana Chamblee Carpenter) dunnit!

Good and Evil live everywhere in this world. What if the Devil spawned a half human child? What would it be? Humans have free will were created this way. Nurturing can be positive or negative . Read this book to find out what could happen. Once you start you won’t be able to stop reading.This book is magical and so well written keeping you in constant suspense of learning what she is in this world and of life longing for our heroine, Mouse, to succeed.

Oh my God! I have never had a book make me FEEL so very much. I've cried throughout so much of her story. I'm still crying as I try to rate this story. Thanks author carves all of our heroin's hopes, fears, dreams, heartbreak, into the reader's very soul! This story is amazing, so much more than I would have expected. I don't read any book twice, but I think I may need to come back to Mouse again, some day. She is most certainly worth a second visit. I've been an avid reader all my life 5 I am no spring chicken, but no book I've ever read, has had so POWERFUL an effect on me. Read it for yourself, if you don't you will have missed something very very special.

I'd been waiting for the second book in Mouse's story and I was not disappointed. Such a beautifully told tale that pulls you into the story and you never want it to end! I have not felt this way for a book in a long time. Try it and you will not be disappointed. I look forward to more of Ms. Carpenter's books!

Incredible. I think I held my breath from Chapter 18 until the end. Read The Bohemian Gospel first and then go straight to this one. Given how the story ends I think there is another coming in this series, at least I hope so. Dana Chamblee Carpenter is a gifted writer and to have such work as her debut is formidable. Original. Smart. Thought provoking. I loved it.

This was a good sequel, however the first book was better because I didn't know what to expect after every chapter. This one was a little more predictable; not because of the writing but because I knew the prior story. Still, I couldn't put this book down and am looking forward to the third book.....I hope.