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Necessarily Evil: Subversion
Weary is the brow that wears the crown. Pope Cenere Brown cursed that old saw in the first year he was Pope, especially when friends of his went to their deaths while he sat in safety behind a desk. And now, the very snake men that murdered his sons’ darkfather threaten the Vatican, an insidious cult striving to raise their dead god Typhon.
As if that weren’t enough, the dark god Malakali seeks to conquer Heaven, and destroy everything Jehovah has worked for millennia to create. The spiteful former Archangel’s assistant, Loki Odinson, assists from the shadows, seeking the remaining keys to free Tiamat from her imprisonment in the Abyss.
To further complicate matters, Engels McGillicutty seeks to resurrect his company from the ashes. What will the last Scion of McG unearth in pursuit of his ultimate goal?
As if that weren’t enough, the dark god Malakali seeks to conquer Heaven, and destroy everything Jehovah has worked for millennia to create. The spiteful former Archangel’s assistant, Loki Odinson, assists from the shadows, seeking the remaining keys to free Tiamat from her imprisonment in the Abyss.
To further complicate matters, Engels McGillicutty seeks to resurrect his company from the ashes. What will the last Scion of McG unearth in pursuit of his ultimate goal?
411 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 24, 2021
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July 31, 2021
Once again, readers journey through the Divine Sitcom with Necessarily Evil: Subversion. Shad Freud delivers this fifth volume of the series with the gloves off. Long-time favorites suffer while the bad guys run amok. Some of the characters we barely got to know.
This series started with Necessarily Evil: Prophecy, and it was like nothing I’ve ever read. We have Satanists running Missions on behalf of Lucifer. Those characters got up to some major hijinks that made me laugh through the gore. I swear it was the funniest book I had read in a long time. But, Shad went a completely different way with the next four novels. These novels are dark and not that funny. I admit that I felt a bit let down that the comedy didn’t follow. What I got instead was a set of stories with my favorite characters but in an unrecognizable format. Even though I didn’t like the lost humor, I found myself enjoying these stories as a different series. I recommend reading the books in order as they do not work well as stand-alone novels.
I loved this book as much as I loved the four that preceded it. But, I found this one to be the darkest of all the books so far. So many people I loved endure tragedy. New friends don’t get a chance to flourish. But, the dastardly Malikali has no repercussions, which annoys me to no end.
I am happy to award Necessarily Evil: Subversion a full 5 out of 5 stars. I will warn you this series is not for everyone. I thought I would hate it for sure when Shad approached me with Prophecy, but I found myself surprised to love it. So, even if this doesn’t sound like your thing, I beg of you to give it a try. You may find that you love it too.
I was given a copy of this book with a request for an honest review.
This series started with Necessarily Evil: Prophecy, and it was like nothing I’ve ever read. We have Satanists running Missions on behalf of Lucifer. Those characters got up to some major hijinks that made me laugh through the gore. I swear it was the funniest book I had read in a long time. But, Shad went a completely different way with the next four novels. These novels are dark and not that funny. I admit that I felt a bit let down that the comedy didn’t follow. What I got instead was a set of stories with my favorite characters but in an unrecognizable format. Even though I didn’t like the lost humor, I found myself enjoying these stories as a different series. I recommend reading the books in order as they do not work well as stand-alone novels.
I loved this book as much as I loved the four that preceded it. But, I found this one to be the darkest of all the books so far. So many people I loved endure tragedy. New friends don’t get a chance to flourish. But, the dastardly Malikali has no repercussions, which annoys me to no end.
I am happy to award Necessarily Evil: Subversion a full 5 out of 5 stars. I will warn you this series is not for everyone. I thought I would hate it for sure when Shad approached me with Prophecy, but I found myself surprised to love it. So, even if this doesn’t sound like your thing, I beg of you to give it a try. You may find that you love it too.
I was given a copy of this book with a request for an honest review.
September 14, 2021
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The book was phenomenal. Just... be ready. This entire series is great at getting you invested in characters and then rips them away in the most brutal of ways
The book was phenomenal. Just... be ready. This entire series is great at getting you invested in characters and then rips them away in the most brutal of ways
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