During the review from the previous book I’ve read by Charly Cox – Alone in the woods I said that I might stop reading this series due to predictability. This book is called the devil’s playground and is the fourth book in a six-book series. I kind of finished it, leaving a couple of chapters short but that’s fine. I am shelving this series though, maybe I’ll pick it up on a later date.

It’s a bit of a smaller review this time I’m afraid.

In the devil’s playground the unsubs are devil worshippers and take their worship to the extreme; targeting a single mother and her friends. London is reading the kids a bedtime story when she hears screams and just knows something isn’t right. She decides to hide with the kids in the closet, just in case. With her phone left somewhere in the house she tells the kids she’ll be right back, not knowing when she said that that she would be attacked and taken.

Draven and Mara, not their real names but more their ‘worship’ names(?), take London to an old church of the beaten track. She’ll be laid in a coffin, drugged and tortured throughout the story.

Carter (6) and Abigail (3) are shocked and afraid after everything happened, Abigail didn’t see a thing but Carter went out looking for London and witnessing what was done to her. Obviously shook and not wanting to go with the paramedics, Carter leans on Cord and listening to what Cord tells him seeming to have build some trust. When they’re looked over by the paramedics and off to the hospital to wait for Child services to take them to a foster home.

While the investigation unfolds and you read both the police POV and that of the killers it’s clear that the police are trying their best but don’t really have much to go on which is harrowing because London time is ticking.

When a new news host drops a bombshell about a double murder and kidnapping has taken place and telling there were two kids present in the house that have been taken by child services. Once the killers find out about the kids there’s only one thing on their mind. Killing those small children, fulfilling their sacrifice.

Only ⭐⭐⭐ stars and I am shelving the other books.