A sixteen-year-old doppelgänger girl in hell faces off against devils, demons, and dragons to save a world she barely knows.All Doodlebug wanted was to get out of hell unscathed. Having paid the price for killing Sere’s mentor by beheading countless harvesters, demons, and all manner of monsters, she really thought she’d earned passage through the hellmouth. But that was before her savior went … savior went missing.
With a contingent of demon-riding dragons, a new devil on the rise, and her primary adversary on the sidelines, Marjory Laroque is no longer content with simply conducting mischief in life. In hell, there are far fewer forces to overcome.
With nowhere else to turn, Doodlebug must take on what she’d always thought to be impossible: saving the hell’s angel that raised her mentor and heroine. To achieve her mission, Doodlebug will need to face her deepest fears—and hell’s most powerful forces—while accepting help from those she fundamentally mistrusts.
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Hell Away from Home dives deeper into War against demons, the nastiest of which are the immortal-wannabe Marjorie LaRoque from New Orleans, and the giant Cormorant bird woman. Each wants to rule Earth AND Hell. Teenaged Doodlebug is almost solely thwarting their plans while the Devil’s Daughter, Sere, is MIA.
Chase’s expansive world-building and imaginative beings, from devils to angels, drive the action. This is a series worth following! (It’s best to start from book #1 and follow through, because the conflict and character evolution build with each one!). Great job, Mr. Chase!
This is one of those series where I’m dying for the next book to come out, doesn’t matter what it’s about, I’m going to read it. None of this reading the blurb – just gimme, gimme, gimme so I can get started already! And so, I finally have Hell Away from Home in hand and start reading. And I’m reading, and reading, and reading. I’m waiting for it to begin. I’m waiting for my favorite devil’s daughter to show up. Where is Sere? So I stopped reading and go back to check out the blurb. Oh. This is Doodlebug’s story. Gotcha. With that in mind, I went back to the beginning and re-read with an open mind this time around.
Doodlebug! Yay, she gets her own story and along the way, we are taken on quite the adventure! Dragons, harvesters, demons, and a potential new devil. Holy moly this book was fun. Doodlebug has her hands full. I’ve never given her character much thought during this reading of this series. Now I am standing up and paying attention.
Hell Away from Home definitely had a bit of departure from the norm of the other books. Okay, so we don’t get to froth over Sere and Bart evolving further into their couple-ness. We still do get to experience Sere just not from the driver seat. But, that’s okay because now I have a fresh opinion to the series. Questions get raised while others get answered. There’s even closure for some other characters that I enjoyed at the same time new characters are introduced. Did I mention there be dragons and OMG they FLY! This book, while different, was definitely worth the read. Bring on the next book!
On a side note: I haven’t been a huge fan of the cover. However, the cover for Hell Away from Home – nailed it!
Stars – 4.5
This had an interesting start as Doodlebug starts the book off in Hell where things are not going well where they even have dragons now!! Be warned alot of the book is from Doodlebug’s point of view so it does feel a little different but it was good to get to know her more as she is the gangs point of contact in hell. There are definitely challenges for not only Doodlebug but for Sere and others and its her chance to step up but …well can you really trust a doppelganger?! I can’t wait to see where things go next and see what ar$e kicking Sere, Doodlebug and others can do!
We’re at the fifth book in this series, and it’s still going strong. This author has a very interesting plot in these books, and the characters are all very interesting. I always enjoy everyone’s uniqueness. This book is mostly from Doodlebug’s point of view which I liked, but I have to admit that I really don’t much like this character. Not only that, I was a little overwhelmed at times with all the people involved in the storyline which drew me out of the story a little. However, I really did enjoy this one, and I’m looking forward to the next one. Recommend this book! I was provided the e-book which I voluntarily reviewed.
this is one Hell of an amazing series and book 5 just left me wanting even more.
I loved the wild ride with Doddlebug in Hell Away from Home I’m still not sure about trusting her…lol but like Sere I have trust issues…lol
I love the world the author has built here, the dimensions, the characters, the mystery surrounding more mystery and bring it all together and then projecting that through the pages is just done so well I’m always left wanting more.
This book and this series and basically every book G.A Chase has written have all been truly captivating stories I can never put down, Hell Away from Home did not disappoint it was a real page-turner from beginning to end.
This story is told mostly from Hell in the perspective of Doodlebug. I enjoyed things from her perspective, and it can be said that the hell version of this girl is probably more dependable than the earth version even if Sere doesn’t like her. It was wonderfully written, and very entertaining to follow Doodlebug along as she tried to figure out what to do next and who to trust.