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Devil's Backbone, Book 3

De: Tate James

Narrado por: Lilly Drake, James Joseph, Corvin King, Michael Gallagher, Gregory Salinas

The final book in the Devil’s Backbone series, a spicy and dark “why choose” romance series from TikTok sensation Tate James.

Dear Reader,

I’ve spent too many nights caught between reality and nightmare, each bleeding into the other like a twisted dream I can’t wake from. The Devil’s Backbone Society continues to host our deepest terrors.

The weight of betrayal crushes me, pressing down on my chest—bitter and suffocating. I don’t know what would be worse: losing the ones I love, the ones who have become my anchors, or losing myself entirely.

In the end, is there even a difference?

©2025 Tate James (P)2025 Tate James

Fantastic Ending

I am a little sad it's over though. definitely going to be a relisten since they are all out now. The cast is utterly amazing and narration well done.

Spicy hot fun

Tate James is such a great writer and I’m so happy she used these talented narrators to bring the story to life!

Excellent duet narration…

The narration was a big part of my enjoying this series.

The author leaned a bit too much on racy content in this last book in the series. It cheapened the characters and made them seem a little ridiculous - even obnoxious at times.

But the story held up and - though predictable - still gave a satisfying conclusion.

Lots of spice… almost too much?!

I was looking for a mystery. I have listened to the series so far and there are a couple things that stood out. If I was looking for a book that was specifically spicy like over the top spicy, this is the book I would look for. The story line was very good and there are a lot of twists though somewhat predictable in this last book. However what I didn’t like and what almost made me not finish the book was the sheer amount of sex scenes. We get it, the girl is a horn dog and so are the guys she’s with, and without giving the book away, and not to be prudish, but how the heck is she still walking on two legs. It’s too much for what I expected and tended to overshadow the story in my opinion. If you like spice and a lot of it, this book is for you. I don’t like 70% of the book to be sex scenes so I wouldn’t listen to something like this again. But narration was good, and the story was decent.

Great audio not the best ending to the series.

I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first two. While I still loved the relationship between the four guys and Ashley, this book just felt like it lacked real character growth. A lot of things were happening, but nothing felt like it was evolving.

I’m not entirely sure what was missing, but it often felt like we were just following around college kids while events unfolded without much emotional payoff.

The reveal around Jocelyn was especially anticlimactic. The idea that everything stemmed from “science” mixed with jealousy over her husband’s new wife just felt underwhelming.. after all the buildup that’s it?!.
Also we never really got answers about how Ashley was able to overcome Jocelyn’s command to shoot Nate. That felt like a major thing that was left unresolved.

The series as a whole was entertaining, and the full-cast audio is excellent. I waited to read this book until the audio release (which was delayed), and I do think that gap made it harder to jump back in. I’d strongly recommend listening to or reading these back to back, because I did feel a bit lost starting this one and had to refresh my memory.

Overall, not a bad just not as strong or satisfying as the first two.