DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

The youngest daughter of the Devil is in a competition with her siblings to become the Antichrist.

In many ways, Ada Faust is your typical 17-year-old high school student. She’s looking forward to exhibiting her photography at the Senior Showcase next year, her older brothers are annoying, her sister is perfect, and her best friend, nonbinary Izzie Garcia, is into aliens. Ada, who’s white, has a nemesis in brown-skinned Hasan Attar, a nephilim with one angel mother and one human mother, whom she’s known since kindergarten. Oh, and her dad is the Devil, the actual being known as “Satan, Lucifer, the Morningstar.” Dad announces that he’s itching to retire, which will set in motion the New Apocalypse, and he’ll need to anoint the next Antichrist. The terms? Positioning Nelson Campbell, who’s “built his entire platform off the fears of the American people,” as the next president. The Faust kids accept the challenge, but while her siblings work for Campbell’s campaign, Ada joins Hasan in interning with his opponent, Democratic Georgia senator Perry Harlow. She plans to sabotage Harlow’s campaign from within. Hasan is suspicious of Ada, who has it all under control—until she catches feelings for Hasan. Can she go through with her devious plan? DeWitt explores themes of social and political justice, and readers will notice parallels to current events, but these topics don’t distract from her complicated coming-of-age journey.

A delightfully diabolical read.