To celebrate the release of the latest novel in the Juche series, The Storm of Storms, we’re going back to the book that started it all! The Demon of Yodok! Read on for more details and a chance to win a signed hardcover edition of the novel!

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The Demon of Yodok (Juche 1)
Genre: YA Dystopian

A highly addictive Young Adult Dystopian Survival series that will keep you glued to the pages.

JUCHE [dʒuːtʃe]

Just when Areum, daughter of a privileged family in the totalitarian state of Choson, thought she was free from her personal prison, her world collapses around her as her family are taken away in the middle of the night to a hell-like camp in the mountains where people who have strayed from the righteous path are brutally re-educated through blood, sweat, tears and starvation.

There she has to fight for survival together with the family she hates and is forced to re-evaluate every aspect of her life until then – her deep resentment toward her twin sister; her view of her father in face of the mounting evidence he is a traitor with the blood of millions of fellow countrymen on his hands; and even her love and affection for the Great General – the eternal savior and protector of Choson, whom she had always considered her true father.

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Review:

The Demon of Yodok by Adria Carmichael is an addictive YA Dystopian and more than I could have hoped. I was so excited to read this, and when I got started, I knew there was no chance of setting it down. Wow!!!

This book will bring you right into this world of filth and hunger. The desperation to survive can be felt through the pages. Emotionally, it was challenging to read the hardships, but isn’t that what the dystopian genre is about? People struggling but finding that one shimmer of hope to keep going.

Every answer leads to more questions, which kept me reading for more. This does end on a cliffhanger, so you know I’m definitely continuing in this series. I need to know what happens!

Areum is a complex character. She shows her privileges in the beginning of the book, but as things happen, and the truth is revealed to her, it is interesting to watch her character develop.

I could go on and on, but honestly, just go get yourself a copy. The Demon of Yodok is fantastic and I highly recommend it!

Thank you to R&R Book Tours for the copy of The Demon of Yodok and the opportunity to honestly review this book on the blog tour. All opinions are my own and unbiased.

Rating:

5/5☆

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EXCERPT

Cranes sang songs of joy from the mountain tops.

Double rainbows appeared in the sky.

The aggressors from the west were defeated. The invaders from the east were expunged. The traitors from the south were put at bay.
The people of Choson were finally free to create their own destiny, and so a hermit kingdom of people’s rule rose from the ashes, and the doors to the enemies of the outside world were closed, never to be opened again.

The world around them moved on. Years passed. Decades passed. Peace and prosperity spread throughout the world, and nothing was heard from the secluded hermit paradise.

Then one day, people started emerging from its closed borders. The stories they brought with them were, however, not of a paradise on earth.

Instead, what they depicted were horrors so vile and cruel that they almost exceeded human comprehension.

Little had the people of the kingdom known when they closed its doors to the outside world, that the vilest beast of all was still lurking among their midst, and as soon as the curtains had been drawn, the beast unleashed its reign of terror upon the people, not stopping until it had crushed and enslaved every soul within its reach.

The beast now rules the kingdom from a throne of human misery and agony.

No one alive has ever encountered this beast, but everybody knows its name.

JUCHE

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Adria Carmichael is a writer of Young Adult Dystopian fiction with a twist. When she is not devouring dystopian and post-apocalyptic content in any format – books, movies, TV-series and PlayStation games – she is crafting the epic and highly-addictive Juche saga, her 2020 debut novel series that takes place in the brutal, totalitarian nation of Choson. When the limit of doom and gloom is reached, a 10K run on a sunny day or binging a silly sitcom on a rainy day is her go-to way to unwind.

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☆Giveaway☆

a signed hardcover edition of The Demon of Yodok (Open to Everyone)

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