BOOKWORM REVIEW: The Devil You Know by Elizabeth O'Roark

June 27, 2022

BOOKWORM REVIEW: The Devil You Know by Elizabeth O'Roark

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
STEAM: 🔥🔥🔥

Gemma Charles has harbored deep-seated hate for co-worker Ben Tate since she started at the FMG law firm. It did not help that he steals her clients, favors another associate, and seems to antagonize her at every step. When one of the senior partners assigned her to a high-profile case, she knows it is the ticket to becoming a partner. Too bad Ben will have to work with her on said case.

Elizabeth O'Roark is batting 1.000 for me. Her books always have such depth that starts with a simple premise and builds into a wonderfully layered story. The journey from beginning to end is about the readers -- and characters -- uncovering that there is more to the people involved than we assumed.

She also gets readers so invested in her characters, and Gemma and Ben are no different. Gemma is the person you want in your corner. She is unapologetically ambitious and driven; she has no qualms about wanting to be the first female partner at FMG and is willing to work hard to get it. On the flip side, she is also kind and protective and follows her values and instincts...sometimes to a stubborn fault.

Ben has officially made his way to my book boyfriend list. The seemingly cocky firm partner is every bit Gemma's equal. He goes toe-to-toe with her banter, creating a delicious tension from early on in the book. He also has serious depth to him, and it was so gratifying to uncover these clever little details along with Gemma.

The spice between these two could light up a Kindle. I also enjoy a fantastic enemies-to-lovers buildup, and when the payoff is equally hot, it just makes the literary ride all that more fun.

This is the third book in O'Roark's Devil series, but it can be read as a standalone. As someone who read the Book 2, it was fun to get updates from characters in previous books, but if you're new, it will not take away from the story at all.

** I am voluntarily reviewing an advance copy of this book. Thank you to Elizabeth O'Roark and Valentine PR and Literary Management for providing an ARC. **

ABOUT THE BOOK

There's a devil on my shoulder, and every Monday morning she announces herself. She's this delicious flame in my chest, a flurry of whispered suggestions in my ear. Suggestions I ignore...because every single one of them is about Ben Tate.

Ben--Stealer of Clients, Evicter of Homeless Women, Nemesis. Sitting across from me every damn Monday with his lovely, smug smile and his too-perfect teeth, the living symbol of everything I hate.

It's been my policy to avoid him, but when a case comes into the firm--one that could change his career and mine--I make an exception. It means weekends and evenings by his side. It means enduring his smirk and his smart mouth and never taking the bait.

Until the night Ben says "Beg"...and that devil on my shoulder decides to make a few demands of her own.

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