The Devils
- 611
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #7
- Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel
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Our view
“The Devils” is a rowdy, bloody road adventure whose chief pleasure is its company of monsters. A monk, a werewolf, a vampire, an elf and others escort a former thief across an alternate Europe, and Abercrombie keeps reshuffling them into new pairings. The humour is black, the violence has consequences, and for some readers six hundred pages never drag. First of three volumes.
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About the book
The Devils is a 2025 grimdark fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie. It is his first novel since the completion of the Age of Madness trilogy in 2021, and his first novel outside the First Law universe since 2015. The book follows a monk, cursed knight, pirate, werewolf, vampire, magician, and elf who are tasked by the church to escort a former thief to Troy, where she is heir to the throne. It appeared on the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller lists. The audiobook, read by Steven Pacey, won an AudioFile Earphones Award. James Cameron purchased rights to a film adaptation.
Reading order · The Devils
Full order & progress →- The DevilsThis book
8.28.2 / 10 - The HereticsThe Heretics–Not ranked yet
- The Devils book 3The Devils book 3–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 658 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 82% of the weight and the score stays at 8.2 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 658 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Devils?
It has 611 pages — longer than 61% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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