Review: Periculum - Natalie Bennett

Periculum by Natalie Bennett
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars

Periculum is book one in the ‘Devil’s Playground’ series by Natalie Bennett and boy is it going to mess with your mind! The book focuses on Liliana Serpine, a girl who throughout the story we don’t know much about, apart from the fact that she comes from an influential, old family. At the end of her holidays with her girlfriends Grace and Mel, they are involved in a series of events which lands them in the kill or be killed zone.

This book introduces a lot of characters at one, but has a big focus on Ciaran and his band of brothers who we see throughout the story. But the main focus is certainly on Lana and Ciaran as they play a game of cat and mouse without any real answers. The book takes all the characters through the ‘Devil’s Playground’, where Lana seems to be the main precursor to the event, but doesn’t understand why. It is only through reading the book that we see she has similar non emotive traits like Ciaran, but he definitely has his own agenda, which I guess we’re going to have to wait until book two to figure out what it was. There is a strange relationship between Lana and Ciaran, as though they know each other before but Lana doesn’t just know where, as well as some sexual tension which is off the charts.

Basically, the book is a cross between ‘The Purge’, American Horror Story’ and a classic murder mystery. You never know who to trust and what everyone’s end game is going to be. There is a game to be played and Lana and her friends are definitely in the middle of it. We do know that it all relates back to their ‘families’ but you can’t quite grasp that thread yet!

There are certainly some triggers to this book and it isn’t for the faint hearted by any means! If you do read this book, beware that you are going to go on a hedonistic ride of the demented senses!

ARC received for a fair, honest and sometimes long review 😊

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