Reviews for Requiem for the Devil

Requiem For the Devil

Requiem is a tale of redemption, written with flair and style. A thread of sly humor weaves through the book, but it is the power of love, and the ways it changes lives, that creates the framework for this delightful first novel. Highly recommended.

–Library Journal

Jeri Smith-Ready is a fresh new voice in modern urban fantasy. Requiem for the Devil blends fantasy, sensuality, and humor in a remarkable tale. It offers a compassionate mirror to questions of reconciliation and redemption that humans have struggled with for ages.

–Catherine Asaro - Nebula Award™-winning author of Quantum Rose

An amazing story that engages your mind.

Five-Angel Recommended Read, Fallen Angels Review

The author's renderings of her characters are alternately hilarious and touching, but they are always genuinely realistic. Such a term seems ill-suited to a "fantasy," but despite the superpower-endowed main characters, the book evokes a profound degree of truth about human relationships....[t]ruly unlike anything else on bookshelves today.

Villanova Magazine (PDF File, see page 56)

The author avoids stereotypes, tropes, and any particular religious line to deliver the kind of book you can read over and over again.

Life Am Good (also made both Crystal's and Karen's Top Ten Books List)

BOOKS by Jeri

Shine — May 2012

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Final book in the award-winning SHADE trilogy

When tragedy spikes a worldwide fear of ghosts, Aura will do anything to save her generation's freedom—and the life of the boy she loves.

Shift — May 2011

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Sequel to the critically acclaimed SHADE

As Aura uncovers new truths about herself and the Shift, she must decide whom to trust with her secrets...and her heart.

Bring on the Night — August 2010

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When a fatal virus spreads through Sherwood—and corpses rise from their graves—Ciara not only gets a crash course in zombie-killing, but is forced to put her faith, and her life itself, in the hands of magic.

Shade — May 2010

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Jeri's teen fiction debut, now available in paperback

First in a worldwide generation of ghost-seers, Aura's relationship with the dead changes forever when her boyfriend dies and comes back to haunt her.

Smith-Ready changes the world simply by changing our ability to see.

Publisher's Weekly, starred review

Bad to the Bone — May 2009

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Smith-Ready pours plenty of fun into her charming, fang-in-cheek urban fantasy.

Publisher's Weekly, starred review

The Reawakened — November 2008

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The stunning conclusion to the Aspect of Crow trilogy.

Wicked Game — May 2008

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WICKED GAME was consistently surprising and original...I highly recommend it.

— #1 NYT Bestselling author Charlaine Harris

Voice of Crow — October 2007

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To save her family, protect her home, and reclaim her soul, Rhia will travel to the Descendants' towering white city…even to the Land of the Dead itself.

Eyes of Crow — November 2006

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Lovers of fantasy are about to embark on a great new series.

Romantic Times

Requiem for the Devil — April 2001

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A tale of redemption, written with flair and style...Highly recommended.

Library Journal