MALEFICIUM (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND #2) by Natalie Bennett : NEW RELEASE

Title: Maleficium: Duo

Series: Devil's Playground #2

Author: Natalie Bennett

Genre: Dark New Adult Romance

Release Date: June 16, 2021

Tragic and Twisted Fall Apart…

Ave Satanas worship or perish.

The reckoning has begun.

In the Devil’s Playground morals have vanished, demons run rampant, and the death toll is rising.

The price of freedom looms closer than before, simply crown the king, claim a queen, and make idle work of the damned.

One will perish.

Bounties will be placed.

The devil wants his due, and one little Serpine is exactly who he's been waiting for.

The puppet dances as long as her strings are pulled.

With a penchant for (writing) villainous immoral men, and a tendency to deviate away from traditional happily ever afters, Natalie Bennett is an international bestselling author of twisted and unconventional love stories.

When she's not slaying words she's somewhere in the sunshine state, happily taking life one curve-ball at a time.

Maleficium: Duo by Natalie Bennett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

"Servatis a Maleficium, something wicked this way comes. Welcome to the Devil’s Playground…"


To me, a Natalie Bennett's book is first and foremost about the atmosphere. Maleficium, second installment in The Devil's Playground series is no different and in that regard, it completely gripped me. I once again found myself sucked into a gruesome, ultra-violent story.

"Play to kill, then play to win. Sacrifice when necessary."


The last chapter of Periculum flowed right away into the new opus, thrilling, dark, mysterious. Not knowing what was happening, and why, all the while trying to understand who to trust was completely exhilarating.

"Death to the weak?”“And wealth to the strong!”


There is not much more to say without spoiling the plot, and, believe me, it's a twisted one. Although the romance, attraction, danger is indeniable, it's not center stage in this series. It's about Lana and Ciaran but so much more than that. I loved the dark side the characters, their all of them, the evolution, or rather revelation of their personalities was incredible. They are merciless, and completely insane. Think... kill or be killed. Big brother. Cube. And a tad or The Game. With lots of gore. That's it. The author built a sick world and I loved it. Is it realistic? No idea, I didn’t even took the time to think about it, it simply works.

"You can’t hide a beautifully demented soul from someone born to raise hell."

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