I had not even heard of Keith Rosson until I saw Fever House on my Amazon feed. I kept looking at the book and thinking to myself damn this sounds so fricking good. So, I do what I never do and paid full price for the Kindle book. Worth every damn penny. I got done with Fever House and and thank whomever Netgalley had the sequel available.
Fever House starts the apocalypse and The Devil by Name takes place five years later. Fever House has a breakneck pace while the The Devil by Name slows down a bit showing what's left of the world and how it's dealing with apocalypse. The novel follows several characters from the first and some new ones and leading to a satisfying conclusion. It's violent, gory and it's probably one of the best apocalyptic horror novels I've read in years.
If you haven't picked up Fever House by now, you're missing out.

4.5 stars

Well this is what we all want out of our sequel. This is damn near perfection. If you haven’t, you definitely NEED to read Fever House first.
Loved everything about this, even a *chefs kiss* ending!
More authors should take notes on what we want when they do sequels 😉😉

This sequel to the novel "Fever House" picks up five years after the breakdown of sanity throughout the globe, brought on by a phone call and a song. I had read that book even though horror is not my genre. It was so good however, that I had to check out this second novel.

John Bonner is still working as an investigator in Portland, working for Terradyne Industries. The company may not have the best interests of society at heart, John still does. Katherine, who lost so much at the time of the breakdown is living under a different identity in New England, trying to hold out hope for her son.

The evil has not left, but for so many afflicted, there may be redemption and another chance at survival. The powers that be however, will not be working towards that end. I was not able to put this book down. It all comes down to a final fight between good and evil. This was a fast paced thrill ride that I greatly enjoyed.

A big thank you to Random House and NetGalley for inviting me to an early read!

This review is going to be short and sweet because the first book and this sequel need to be read to understand without spoilers or too many details here haha!! I OBSESSED over Fever House by Keith and sooooo when asked if I would like to read and review with my honest review The Devil By Name I immediately said yes and started reading it right away!

I sat down one evening to set the mood and read straight through. This book had everything for me and everything I expect from our author—the descriptions and writing are so clear and so descriptive that you can simply close your eyes and just envision it. Can we just turn this into a little Netflix series already?!?!

This book took me through all the feels and then I felt so sad and lost once it was over. Once again Keith Rosson does it and delivers an incredible read that I can forever be shouting from the rooftops about.

If you love high intense creepy and gory reads then this book (and duo) is absolutely for you..thank me later babesss. Slap this on your TBR.

Such a great sequel - such absorbing characters and the story leaves you with a sense of dread, wonder and excitement. A must for any horror lover!

Following on the heels of Fever House (2023), Rosson's forthcoming novel "The Devil By Name" (Expected publication September 10, 2024) takes the reader on a journey far different from that which was undergone in Fever House. It is now five years later and the world has completely changed since the song was broadcast with the hidden message to every cell phone anyone bothered to answer. The fevered are roaming in hordes. The artifacts are in play.

We get new characters as well as revisits from old ones. One such new character is Naomi Laurent who for some reason we never quite understand has a power to cure the fevered. She is in what is left of France accompanying Denis in a world that only Thomas Hobbes might recognize: nasty, brutish, and short. John Bonner has nightmares about the severed hand back in Portland. Meanwhile, Dean Haggerty scavenges from Indiana to Cape Winston, Massachusetts, where Katherine Moriarty (the voice) is hiding in plain sight with her fevered son Nick in the barn.

In many ways, this world is recognizable to any who have read or viewed post-apocolyptic stories. But the artifacts and what they mean alter things and the control of the Terradyne Corporation does so as well. There are so many new threads that are just barely related to things that were set out in the first novel. This one is no longer a crime novel turned zombie fantasy. We are in full-blown zombie world.

Many thanks to the publisher for an advance reading copy.

This just might be the best horror sequel I’ve ever read! I very much recommend the first book - Fever House - be read prior to this one to get the full effect. And as much as I enjoyed the first book, this one is my favourite. Great characters, smooth writing and a perfect ending. 4.5 stars

Characters from each coast of the U.S.A. and a few from the middle of the country along with a gifted child in France come together in as complementary cogs in this living machine somehow churning through an undead world.
In The Devil by Name, Keith Rosson has painted a compelling picture of a post-apocalyptic United States where scavengers roam, the dead drift from habited zone to habited zone, directionless but always threatening to appear around the next corner, and where those responsible for the plague that caused the "fever" to spread in Book One might just get their comeuppance, retribution, or both.
As a person who's got Rosson's first book on the shelf but who hasn't cracked the spine—and always a fan of zombie stories told well—I might have expected this book would be a challenge to capture and hold me, but the fever—so to speak—set in, and I was horrified and gladdened to rejoin the fray every evening until I'd completed this advance reader copy. There were times when the characters' dialogue wasn't all I had hoped for, where it didn't reveal unique characters' inner motivations, and where the plot felt like it was the primary thing and the characters were merely along for the ride. There were other times when I forgot I was reading a book—those, any reader knows, are the very best times we have with books. Unpredictable at every turn, truly, and leaving some loose ends (for a Fever House #3, I'd imagine) for us to wonder after, The Devil by Name is not going to make my top ten for the year, but I'm glad I spent my time with it and would recommend it to horror fans, post-apocalyptic fiction or survival-horror fans, or for those who like a good walking dead story. Rosson has my approbation and my thanks for sharing this piece of his imagination with us. I'll certainly be heading back to book one to find out how things got so messed up in the world he's built.

I was absolutley obsessed with Fever House and this follow up did not disappoint, I'm sad its come to an end but its become one of my favourite duologies, the violence, bloodshed and all out creepy supernatural horror are taken to new heights in this exhilarating thrill ride, when I say strap yourself in I mean it cos once you're on the Rosson rollercoaster there's no getting off, writing in a genre all of his own making, a punk rock thriller, Rosson delivers a gruesome survival/ apocalyptic horror painted on a landscape of guilt, revenge and loss, I was half expecting to close the book, look in the mirror and see myself covered in blood and gore(but all I saw was tears) the descriptions are extremely vivid and I felt like I was watching a Tarintino movie play out, this was a devastating read and incredibly moving in some parts, far from being just a horror story this is more about the search for humanity amongst darkness, the characters are some of my absolute favourites ever and we get more character development and depth to them in this sequel, I read this in two days because I couldn't put it down, kudos to keith for writing this phenomenal saga

‘The Devil By Name’ picks up 5 years after the events of ‘Fever House’ with an array of characters. One of my qualms with the first book was the vast number of characters to follow. Each chapter is written from a different perspective, cycling between the allotment of characters. The different locations are an integral part of the plot, but I feel like we don’t spend enough time with in one location with multiple characters. Overall, there were parts that really excited me and parts that really left me wishing for more.

It must be insanely hard to write a follow up to an apocalyptic novel. My goodness, Fever House was the best and to write another just as good should have been impossible, but Rosson has done it. An insane, brilliant continuation of the most original zombie story ive read in ages. Fantastic plotting, all the characters are back, and plenty of surprises to keep things moving along. A fantastic read.

Thanks to Random House and NetGalley for this ARC of 'The Devil By Name' by Keith Rosson.

I absolutely loved the utterly bonkers 'Fever House' and was thrilled to have the opportunity to read the sequel and hoped it wouldn't be a letdown. Well, no chance of that! This could well be the Godfather 2 of the postapocalyptic zombie horror genre, it's possibly better than the first. My only regret is that I didn't reread 'Fever House' before embarking on 'The Devil By Name' - I spent a lot of time racking my brains to remember where some of this was coming from, but that was my fault, not the author's.

The world we left at the end of 'Fever House' has had time to descend into even more chaos but is also on the way back to 'normality' courtesy of Terradyne - the corporation responsible for the downfall of civilization - and the US government under a bible bashing cowardly president.

All of the characters from the first book are joined by several new and worthy individuals on both sides of the good/evil divide and some characters from the first are expanded.

I feel like there was a lot more heart and emotion in this sequel than there was in the first, maybe that's just me misremembering but it really did feel that within the absolute horror and chaos - graphically described, by-the-way - the whole range of the human emotions was exposed throughout the book.

If you're a fan of Stephen King's ability to take multiple different character threads and interchange between them before gradually bringing them together for a big ending you'll enjoy how Rosson does the same, bringing characters and narratives from around the country and the world to a big set piece at the end. Really well done and very coherent.

Congratulations, Keith Rosson, on producing a second work of absolute enjoyment.

I happened upon “Fever House” by accident, but from that day on, I literally could not WAIT to get my hands on “The Devil By Name”. It was a few months between the books for me, but the sequel to “Fever House” was everything I anticipated and more. It was slow for me to make some connections thanks to a couple of months between books, but that’s on me and not on the author.

“The Devil By Name” is so fascinating because it is written from so many different vantage points. In one chapter, you see the world through John Bonner’s eyes, and in the next, it’s Katherine’s. It takes some time to get used to this, but it makes the story all the better.

One of Rosson’s greatest talents is writing all of the gory, bloody details of a horror movie with such precision that you can see the action playing out in your mind as you read each word. I thought “Fever House” was insane, gory fun until I got to the final third of “The Devil By Name”. I absolutely cannot say enough about how entertaining, and wonderful (depending on your interpretation of wonderful, I suppose) this book was.

Read it. You will not be disappointed. You will be entertained, grossed out, and left thinking “What the ffffffuuuuuuu…”, but you will NOT be disappointed.

Often times the sequel doesn’t quite measure up to the original….well not in this case! What. A. Phenomenal. Ending. This book was an amazing continuation (set years ahead of the first) that jumps right into the fun/supernatural/horrific ride! It definitely exceeded expectations & I read this in one sitting-unable to put it down once I started!

My love for Fever House knew no bounds—I practically evangelized about it to anyone who'd listen. So, when I got my hands on an early copy of its sequel, The Devil by Name, I couldn't contain my excitement—I may have even let out a scream or two.

I know all good things must come to an end but The Devil by Name delivered everything I hoped for and more. I was physically moved by the chapters and found myself shedding tears on two occasions.

Even though this marks the end of the Fever House saga, it's a world I'll always hold dear and revisit often. I could not recommend this duology more.

This was a great follow up to Fever House! The character povs can get a bit confusing sometimes but it’s all relevant and wrapped up nicely (insanely) at the end.

Hold onto your seats because "The Devil By Name" by Keith Rosson is here, and it's a wild ride you won't want to miss! As a sequel to the gripping "Fever House," this book takes the intensity up a notch, delivering a creepy and gory, yet incredibly fun experience.

In a world overrun by the "fevered," zombielike creatures consumed by violence, Rosson masterfully weaves together the lives of characters like guilt-ridden detective John Bonner, the resilient Katherine Moriarty, and the enigmatic Naomi Laurent. As their paths converge across a ravaged landscape, you'll be on the edge of your seat, eager to see how their stories unfold. Part of the story takes place in Portland (like the first book), which was extra fun as a Portland resident. Completely recognized some of the locations (hello, Hawthorne Fred Meyer!)

Rosson's storytelling is as gruesome as it is beautiful, painting a vivid picture of a world where survival is everything. With every turn of the page, you'll find yourself immersed in a heart-stopping saga of redemption, survival, and the search for humanity in the face of darkness. Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

Fever House was down right disturbing and I was THRILLED at the opportunity to read The Devil By Name.

What to say? This follow up was unhinged, in the best way possible. I was terrified -and- excited to see what was going to happen next.
I simply could not put this down.

If you are a fan of the first book, supernatural horror, and bloody plans to conquer the world this book is for you!!

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In this sequel to the fantastic Fever House, Keith Rosson delivers an apocalyptic, mind bending, horrific novel that has the scope of The Stand but much more "goo-ier".

The world was almost decimated by the Message, a worldwide broadcast which immediately turned anyone who listened into the Fevered. Not zombies but similar to the infected from 28 Days Later. Violent, unstoppable, they feel no pain and their only desire is human flesh and what's inside that flesh.

Fever House left us with questions and these are mostly answered in this book. Familiar characters are at the forefront and a lot has happened to them since the Message.

But the elements, the remnants, are still at play. There's a detached hand, an eye, and of course the message itself. Combining these brings the suffering, the fever, and the curse that destroys the world.

This novel has a lot going on and I read it with my mind firmly in this world. It's just hard to put down. There are so many terrifying instances, power hungry men who want to wield the Message for personal gain, and things are going to get ooey, gooey, and bloody as we go along.

From France to the United States, this worldwide supernatural virus has decimated society and the narrative firmly places us in the shoes of several survivors. The sheer amount of destruction, death, and violence is everywhere and none of these characters are safe.

Guilt, revenge, and loss are also themes throughout the novel and these feelings, while perhaps justified, could have dire consequences.

This is a thrilling, no holds barred apocalyptic horror novel which rivals any other tale of an apocalypse. Highly recommend.

Bro. Bro. BRO! This book is AMAZING! I’m just in awe of it. Possibly even better than the first one… a great follow-up and conclusion to the story.

And I was SO happy to get this book from NetGalley so that I didn’t have to wait til September to read it! I read the first book just last month… so I haven’t, like, entirely forgotten it.

The first one was batshit-fun-horror with the world going to shit. Now it’s 5 years later and it’s still batshit-fun-horror.

It reads like a (super-long) movie. It’s so good. It’s violent and supernatural and the characters are great and it’s fucking tragic. I’d love this to be a TV series and yet the whole time I’m like, No way… they wouldn’t be able to do it justice, they’d hold back too much. So books win once again.

My review of the first one said it would have been better with limited interruptions and I was right — I read this one in 2 days. Compulsively readable and so fun. (The most violent, crazy fun.) If you like (good) Stephen King and Chuck Wendig, this is for you.