Jacobi Slate is a really interesting character and I enjoyed getting to go through his world. I loved the use of cyberpunk and enjoyed this read.

Honestly as great as the plot and the characters were in this book, I had the hardest time getting immersed into it. For whatever reason, I still haven't figured it out over five hundred pages later, I Just couldn't keep my attention on this book. Whether that's a me problem or a book problem I'm not sure, but I do have these good things to say about it. If you're looking for an action packed cyberpunk mystery novel mixed with military personnel, robotic limbs and internal computers, and crazy body mods and just crazy tech in general, than this is definitely something you should look into checking out next.

At the beginning of this book we find out main character, Jacobi, hunting down a man for some kind of mob boss. He finds him surrounded by drugs and girls and easily apprehends him, and brings him back to his father. This is just the beginning though, because the favour he gets in return will really help him out later in the book. What's really going on here, Jacobi learns after visiting his friend in jail after he has brutally murdered his wife, is that someone seems to be hunting down the members of his old army team. But why would someone do that? Their names and team were all under lock and key, not just anyone would be able to have that information. But his friend says it wasn't his fault and that someone made him do it. How could someone just control another person like that? All these questions and more are all wrapped up by the end of the book.

Out of all the characters I think I like Risa and his other friend with the robotic limbs the most. I read another review that says this book seemed sexist, and while that opinion is valid, I really didn't get that vibe from it. I would say the vibes I got from this book were more military James Bond with all the cyberpunk goodness and crazy tech we love that comes along with that genre. The world around the characters wasn't explained in depth, and honestly neither were the characters themselves, and maybe that might be why I had trouble really getting into it. That being said, though, I did enjoy it, and I don't think I lost any time while I was reading it. It just took me longer than usual to get through it because of those things.

Overall, If you're looking for something exciting and action packed, with lots of tech and storylines within the bigger storyline, than this might be something you want to check out next. I would say that anyone aged sixteen and up would be able to read this, there's not really any explicit scenes, and what very little sexual scenes there actually are in this book, I counted two, they're glossed over very quickly and don't get too in depth with them other than saying yeah, they did this. Which I appreciated. I don't think that this is one of those kinds of books. The plot twists were exciting and everything weaved together really nicely in the end. And I'm left wishing I had an internal computer or robotic limbs, or those cool night vision mods that turn your eyes all black.

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Interesting story. I really like ex military detective type stories so this was right up my alley. I felt the story was slightly drawn out.

Unfortunately, this book falls into the trap of so many noir-inspired stories. Traditional Noir is a deeply sexist genre, and building on that genre without thinking deeply about those issues, leads to choices that perpetuate those stereotypes.

The tech in "The Devil Whispered" is cool and interesting; the idea of a retired military team being targeted by something mysterious that causes them to lose their minds and go on murderous killing sprees is a fairly engaging premise. However, I couldn't enjoy the story due primarily to the gender imbalances.

If you like gritty, old-fashioned noir, a ton of fight sequences, and some cool tech, this might be a good read for you.

This book was okay and had some great imagery however I found that if was drawn out too long and would have been more suited to a smaller novel