The characters in the book are truly multifaceted. The "good guys" are in no way clearly good. In fact, the author seems to go out of her way to show some very bad traits in her heroes. They are also not in anyway doing what they are doing for purely altruistic reasons. And it's not just the mortals. The characters that were clearly never mortal are written almost foreign, and yet they show the extremes in human nature so very well.

I really enjoy the pantheon of gods that are in the book. You could see the knowledge of those gods, their characteristics and their worshippers. However, the author also gave everything a really good spin and has made them her own characters. She also takes some of the basics from several theologies and weaves them together so well that it creates one amazing and at times horrific world.

This is sort of a hard book for me to review because by the end I thought this was a good book, but there were points where I wasn't sure I was enjoying it. The author uses amazing skill in describing the world of Death. In fact, there were parts where she is too descriptive to the point of making the reader uncomfortable. However, if you can get past some of those points, the story is incredibly intriguing.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Mildly sensual

Reviewer: Amy Hopkins
August 8, 2011