There's No Place Like Hell by Janis Hill - Bookin' It With Jen

I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. The premise is great, a Protector of Souls sworn to Isis herself? Yes please. Stephanie is a snarky and strong lead woman, and there are lots of demons. The world building is good. The antagonist is really quite unlikeable. There is a lot going for it. But for me something didn’t click. I didn’t feel connected to the story at all and actually it took me around a month to read what should have taken a couple hours max. I just kept abandoning it for other books. I do think that the book got A LOT better at around the 45% mark, and I found myself enjoying the back half of the story a lot more. So to clarify, the beginning of the book was more of a 2 star and the back half was closer to four, so I split it. This IS the second in the series and I didn't read the first because when I received it to review I was unaware of the previous book, so that may have had something to do with the disconnect, but I can't attest to that for sure.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read this ARC in exchange for my honest review.