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Blacker than White
Meet the Devil. Hear her story.
2021: After thousands of people vanish in a series of Raptures, angels descend from Heaven to usher in the End of Days. Problem is, that means killing everyone left on Earth, one by one.
Oxford, Alexei has just killed an angel. In doing so, he unwittingly unleashes Lucifer herself from Hell. But she is not the devil he expected, and has her own version of who the one calling himself ‘God’ really is. She claims to be on humanity’s side. ‘Judgment Day be damned’, she says, ‘I’m going to help you fight back’.
She invites Alexei on a journey to break into Heaven and stop the Apocalypse, and what choice does he have? When God wants you dead, he figures, the Devil is as good a friend as any. And maybe, just maybe, she can help him get back someone he has lost.
2021: After thousands of people vanish in a series of Raptures, angels descend from Heaven to usher in the End of Days. Problem is, that means killing everyone left on Earth, one by one.
Oxford, Alexei has just killed an angel. In doing so, he unwittingly unleashes Lucifer herself from Hell. But she is not the devil he expected, and has her own version of who the one calling himself ‘God’ really is. She claims to be on humanity’s side. ‘Judgment Day be damned’, she says, ‘I’m going to help you fight back’.
She invites Alexei on a journey to break into Heaven and stop the Apocalypse, and what choice does he have? When God wants you dead, he figures, the Devil is as good a friend as any. And maybe, just maybe, she can help him get back someone he has lost.
365 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 18, 2016
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April 17, 2016
Full disclosure: I edited this baby :)
May 1, 2016
While it is ostensibly a work of fantasy, this book is real and relatable in important ways. Themes often discussed flippantly have here been carefully re-imagined, logically (and therefore gratifyingly) presented. The result is an imagined world which could just as easily exist. Parts of it do - we are shown searing love, the black holes created by loss, and a powerful call to simply live.
Hell is really the worst parts of what it means to be alive. So it's easy to imagine. Lucifer is complex, multi-layered, infuriatingly (but delightfully) difficult to understand and pin down. As we move closer to her, it becomes clear she's impossible to describe simply, and as a consequence is in many ways the most human character in the book.
It's an absorbing read - well-paced, full of rich, vivid and satisfying description and sprinkled with dark but welcome humour.
Hell is really the worst parts of what it means to be alive. So it's easy to imagine. Lucifer is complex, multi-layered, infuriatingly (but delightfully) difficult to understand and pin down. As we move closer to her, it becomes clear she's impossible to describe simply, and as a consequence is in many ways the most human character in the book.
It's an absorbing read - well-paced, full of rich, vivid and satisfying description and sprinkled with dark but welcome humour.
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