10-30-2007, 05:12 AM
This one had some surprising grit and depth. Based on the back cover, I thought it'd be a slightly more adult version of Reaper, but it had a bit more oomph.
Set in a future where most of Christianity has been pretty much abandoned, the Mob runs much of the world, people with psi ability are bought and sold. Dante (chick), a Necromance (talks to the dead -- reminds me of Anita Blake before she started hanging with vampires) gets summoned by Lucifer and "hired" to find an escaped demon (who she's met and barely survived before, thought he was a human serial killer who killed her best friend) and recover an artifact stolen from Hell.
Best thing was the non-Hollywood ending. Most books I read these days, things tend to work out the way you'd expect or at least end on a cliffhanger. This one ended a bit more logically than most, which wasn't all sweetness and light and everything will work out... and despite my usual aversion to being depressed by entertainment, I'd have to give this one a thumbs up.
Set in a future where most of Christianity has been pretty much abandoned, the Mob runs much of the world, people with psi ability are bought and sold. Dante (chick), a Necromance (talks to the dead -- reminds me of Anita Blake before she started hanging with vampires) gets summoned by Lucifer and "hired" to find an escaped demon (who she's met and barely survived before, thought he was a human serial killer who killed her best friend) and recover an artifact stolen from Hell.
Best thing was the non-Hollywood ending. Most books I read these days, things tend to work out the way you'd expect or at least end on a cliffhanger. This one ended a bit more logically than most, which wasn't all sweetness and light and everything will work out... and despite my usual aversion to being depressed by entertainment, I'd have to give this one a thumbs up.
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