The Devil’s Apprentice by Kenneth B. Andersen.

I am participating in TheWriteReads Ultimate blog tour for this book. I was given a free e-copy in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks to Dave for facilitating this amazing blog tour! I’ve met quite a few awesome book bloggers through this tour!

About the book:

Philip is a good boy, a really good boy, who accidentally gets sent to Hell to become the Devil’s heir. The Devil, Lucifer, is dying and desperately in need of a successor, but there’s been a mistake and Philip is the wrong boy. Philip is terrible at being bad, but Lucifer has no other choice than to begin the difficult task of training him in the ways of evil. Philip gets both friends and enemies in this odd, gloomy underworld—but who can he trust, when he discovers an evil-minded plot against the dark throne?

This is volume 1 in The Great Devil War series.

My thoughts:

The main character Philip Engel is, as the blurb states, a good boy! He has a solid moral compass and is the type of boy that you’d want to call your son, mannerly, we’ll-behaved, keen to help others etc. Unfortunately one day the biggest, meanest bully in the school, Sam pushes Philip into the path of an oncoming car and Philip dies from his injuries and he heads to the afterworld. Bizarrely though, Philip winds up in Hell. The last place an angel boy like him should end up!

Not only has Philip found himself in the fires of hell with all sorts of criminals and people who did bad deeds on Earth but the devil is on his last legs and needs someone to succeed him, Enter, Philip stage left. How does someone so intrinsically good as Philip end up as the devils apprentice I hear you ask….? Well there was a slight boo boo on the day Philip died, he wasn’t supposed to be hit by a car that day. Someone else evil to the core was supposed to have been and that person was in line to take over from Lucifer.

“Engel,” the Devil echoed, rubbing his forehead. “I wanted a Samuel and I get an angel? This isn’t promising.”

However it’s too late for changes to be made so Philip has to undergo training in order to become more suited for the role of evil overlord.

I laughed out loud quite a bit when I was reading this book. I definitely have a darker sense of humour and enjoyed the parts where Lucifer was putting Philip through his paces in order to become evil. I would definitely recommend this book to others as it was something different, highly entertaining and belly laughing great in certain places! 5 stars all the way from me! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️