The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1) by S.J. Kincaid

››› Free download audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: The Diabolic (The Diabolic, #1) ISBN: ISBN13: Autor: S.J. Kincaid (Goodreads Author) Rating: 4.8 of 5 stars (1886) counts Original Format: Kindle Edition, 416 pages Download Format: PDF, RTF, ePub, CHM, MP3. Published: November 1st 2016 / by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Language: English Genre(s): Young Adult- 248 users Science Fiction- 224 users

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Description: Nemesis is a Diabolic. Created to protect a galactic Senator's daughter, Sidonia. The girl who has grown up by her side and who is as much as sister as a master. There's no one Nemesis wouldn't kill to keep her safe. But when the power-mad Emperor summons Sidonia to the galactic court as a hostage, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Now one of the galaxy's most dangerous weapons is masquerading in a world of corruption and Nemesis has to hide her true abilities or risk everything. As the Empire begins to fracture and rebellion looms closer, Nemesis learns that there is something stronger than her deadly force: the one thing she's been told she doesn't have - humanity. And, amidst all the danger, action and intrigue, her humanity might be the only thing that can save her, Sidonia and the entire Empire...

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Rewiews:

Nov 13, 2016

Cait (Paper Fury) Rated it: really liked it Shelves: sci-fi, young-adult, 4-star, read-2016 This was very stabby and I LIKED IT. Because, well, I have a small love for all things stabtastic (shh, that's a word) and I loved how we got an actual vicious protagonist here who is all anti-hero and inhumane tendencies and stunted emotions and fantastic at stabbing things and WOW, I JUST REALLY ENJOYED THIS. Although I do not like one of the finale plot twists because #illogical. But pfft. Will I let a few small cantankerous feelings put me off? NO I SHALL NOT. GOOD BOOK IS GOOD. Also you get This was very stabby and I LIKED IT. Because, well, I have a small love for all things stabtastic (shh, that's a word) and I loved how we got an actual vicious protagonist here who is all anti-hero and inhumane tendencies and stunted emotions and fantastic at stabbing things and WOW, I JUST REALLY ENJOYED THIS. Although I do not like one of the finale plot twists because #illogical. But pfft. Will I let a few small cantankerous feelings put me off? NO I SHALL NOT. GOOD BOOK IS GOOD. Also you get a list review. AREN'T YOU PLEASED? (Spoiler: you are pleased.) L I K E S: • It's set in space! I don't read a lot of sci-fi so this was actually quite exciting! I always love these futuristic settings where they mix sort of an ancient Imperial court (kind of Roman? Greek?) with modern technology and spaceships. It's like ANCIENT GOODNESS IN OUTER SPACE and I like that. • And like I said: stabby. It's actually vicious! I mean, blood doesn't fly everywhere, but the characters don't hold back! • Nemesis is an adorable deadly cinnamon roll. She's a genetically engineered weapon, made as like a permanent bodyguard for her mistress, Donia. All Nemesis wants in life is to PROTECT HER DARLING DONIA. She's like a total robot most of the time....exceeeeeept: she secretly has feelings. And she secretly starts feeling more human. AND SHE'S SECRETLY AWESOME. I loved how the book made her fiercely loving and also robotic at the same time. It didn't make Nemesis unrelatable. In fact, I related to her a lot! It was so easy to root for her while she was simultaneously vicious and loving. She is definitely a new favourite protagonist for me!! • HELLO MIND GAMES!!! Omg I love mind games. And this is full of plot twists, mind games amongst the Emperor and his backstabbing family, and plots and conspiracies. YAS. • Speaking of which: hello to the Emperor's nephew, Tyrus. He's rather mad and I really loved how clever he also was. And he wasn't exactly nice all the time. And I know I seem psychotic to be sitting here saying "Ooh yay mean characters!" but they were mean-characters-I-could-root-forbecause-they-loved-fiercely-and-stabbed-just-as-fiercely. • MY PEOPLE. • Also there is a super cute dog!! And by "cute" I mean it was an ugly brute and Nemesis, aka "cold hearted and unfeeling", was an absolute marshmallow to her dog. I LOVE THIS. SO MUCH CUTE. • It was exciting! Always good news for an action adventure story! But I always get cautious

when books are set in imperial courts because it can tend to end in dull teaparties. Never fear. There are plenty of dear-death and total-death experiences and the occasional nice dance where my OTP threatens to break each other's necks. Which leads me to... • YES I SHIP IT. Tyrus and Nemesis are damaged, slightly evil, totally poisonous, and fiercely good underneath all that. THESE are the kind of characters I love reading about. D I S L I K E S: • It did vaguely feel like a huge mash up. Look there's nothing new out there! But when you've read a loooooot of books (aka me) you start to feel rather unsurprised by things. Basically this book has a LIST of things it reminds me of. For instance: The Winner's Curse = Grecian/Roman setting with politics and mind games written in a similar style to The Diabolic Spark = genetically modified people designed specifically to protect other people Red Rising = Grecian/Roman setting with the stabby aspects, plus the carving/changing of people's bones and things The Hunger Games = Capitol fashion and amusement tastes + dictatorship that benevolently kills the lower class Red Queen = backstabbing royal family + sci-fi elements I mean, OKAY THAT'S A LOT. And books aren't ever going to be fully original, right?? But as I was reading I couldn't help going "Yeah I saw that plot twist in Red Queen" and "Oh that's exactly what they did with changing people's bone structure in Red Rising"....and it was a bit off putting. The romance did confuse me. There were a lot of "I love yous" being thrown around and I'm like relatively certain Donia was a lesbian and loved Nemesis romantically??? But I wasn't sure??? Because Nemesis didn't seem to love her back anything more than platonically. So possibly it was ALL platonic love, but. I CONFUSED. • DOG DOG DOG. Because (view spoiler)[the freaking dog GOT MURDERED and I am THIS CLOSE to just slamming a book that ever mentions a dog shut and throwing it across the galaxy BECAUSE STAHP KILLING THE DOGS, YOU MONSTER AUTHORS. STAHP STAHP STAPH. *throws self weeping to the ground. And no. I am not okay. If you wondered. (hide spoiler)] • The plot twist at the end WAS SO ANNOYING. Arghghgh. It's literally grating me to pieces. If I was a piece of cheese, I would be grated so finely you could spread me on your pasta sauce and rename me parmasen sprinkles. AHEM ANYWAY. You get the point. Not happy. (view spoiler)[It was just so freaking obvious that the evil empress was lying. I mean, DUH?!?!??! Nemesis KNOWS she's a rat, she KNOWS the empress wants everyone dead, particularly her annoying nephew. This has been established the WHOLE BOOK. But then at the very end when Donia is murdered by poison and the empress is like "Oh Tyrus is behind this" and Nemesis just believes her straight away??? I don't buy it. In fact, it was annoyingly dumb. I couldn't believe Nemesis just swallowed it so easy. Like yeah, trust your enemy and hate your lover FOR NO GOOD REASON AT ALL YOU TWIT. (hide spoiler)] ALL IN ALL: Yesss I like this one! It wasn't perfect for me, and I did get annoyed at the illogical ending plot twist. But like mind games? Stabbing? Starships? Conspiracies to take down an empire? Forbidden romance? Inhuman characters finding their emotional sides?? (Of which that is my favourite trope, okay.) And an EPIC finale that leaves me wanting more?? Plus a ship that is

totally unstable and dangerous and deadly and lovely??? THIS JUST TICKS SO MANY GOOD BOXES FOR ME. I'M NOTORIOUSLY PLEASED. 192 likes 26 comments

Elora Mitchell You had me at stabby. Until I read about the mash-ups. I can't handle them right now. :(

Jan 07, 2017 02:47PM

Tandie Cait, I see there's a sequal in the works. I'm not sure how I feel about that, The Diabolic kind of felt like a complete story. What are your feels?

Jan 07, 2017 06:25PM