Brey Willows

This is the first of the Afterlife, Inc books that I have encountered, and the premise introduced some fascinating, thought-provoking questions and issues: I was intrigued. Religion run as a big business, with a double bottom line - stability and perhaps protection of humans? Gods, immortals and humans work together, and war against each other with the righteous assurance that they are on the side of right and good. Unfortunately, characters blended into a big one-dimensional, indistinct blob (gods and immortals should be the least likely characters to be written as one-dimensional or indistinct), and the emphasis on all the sex that they had distracted from the plot, and drained the book of all of the appeal of the innovative storyline. The perfunctory sex and intimacy is communicated in a puerile manner; the violence is written in a desultory way. The conflicts are not convincing, and character moods change unpredictably and irrationally.

Fury's Death is difficult to place in any category. The completely original premise of gods and humans working together and warring against each other seemed that it would be attractive to college-aged, open-minded readers trying to figure out life and comparing new experiences to everything that they thought they knew. The numinous nature should suit fans of supernatural books. The sentimental intentions and HEA/HFN should allow the book to be considered a romance.

Overall, Fury's Death struck me as a bit of a mashup of melodramatic, jejune fan-fic and unresolved philosophical musings. I know there will be those who enjoy the book, but perhaps a bit too niche for broad appeal.


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