The Moon is Distant

The Serpent's Throne Trilogy #3

by Dan Ackerman

Lucifer is dead. There's a new Queen of Hell.

Ira stays safe by aligning himself with the high society that supports the queen, through his friends Georg and Astrid. The farce gets harder every day.

As Lucifer slowly returns to life, he finds himself chained and captive and in the dark. But something's not right - his wounds aren't healing, there are things he can't remember, and he's starving, in more ways than one.

Ira receives an unexpected advantage--he is put legally in charge of Lucifer's affairs. Will that be enough to save his prince and himself?

278 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2021

About the author

Dan is a writer. All their books have typos (like, probably way too many). Unfortunately, there's nothing they're going to do about it until a quality professional editor starts volunteering their time to spooky gay romances. Currently writing just a bit at a time.

Reviews

[PaperMoon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Angelic assassination and a political coup (in Hell of all places), with demented souls and monstrous beings terrorizing the city sectors ... just when one thinks one cannot be more surprised when Lucifer gets his own resurrection tale! And apparently there's an arcane tome whereby the Devil has 'dished-the-dirt' on his fellow angels! From this trilogy, the author has introduced an amazing set of characters; ingenue-like Ira (and his twin), sanguine Georg (fantastic Master of the Records he will become), the unsinkable Imogen (Brown), crusty mage Hiram and his demonic husband Phaedrus Queen, and of course toddler Felix (the most recent Antichrist) who knows all of seven words (my gosh how Sunshine would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in that nursery!).

There's an incredible scene when a summoned Angel of Mercy turns out to one bad-ass beyotch who could give Ellen Ripley a run for her money! And readers should definitely be forewarned of lots of triggers of PTSD/emotional and psychological abuse and torment. Call me obsessed but I would kill to read more about that 'other city' Lucifer has tucked away in Hell's landscape. I'd definitely be re-reading this series again - 4.5 stars.