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dsrtaoStop me if you've heard this one before: a nice enough woman in her mid-30s dies of cancer and goes to the afterlife. Whereupon she gets bored in Paradise and takes a job in Hell, starting a Hellp Desk for the more confused - or ornery - of the damned.
You might have heard it before because it originated as a series of very short videos: Hell's Belles. One actress plays multiple roles, including our protagonist Lily, her adopted daughter Sharkie, various named and unnamed demons, and a smorgasbord of unhappy souls who have generally reached the decision that Talking To The Manager is a good idea.
The book is a series of incidents and explorations around the afterlife, establishing the rules and the characters properly so that the events which transpire make proper story-telling sense. I would not have guessed this to be a first novel.
Contains spoilers for the video series or vice-versa; romantic and erotic and remarkably well-inclined to atheists for a book set in Hell and featuring Heaven, Valhalla, Paradise, Elysium... God makes an appearance but Lucifer gets better lines. I liked it.
You might have heard it before because it originated as a series of very short videos: Hell's Belles. One actress plays multiple roles, including our protagonist Lily, her adopted daughter Sharkie, various named and unnamed demons, and a smorgasbord of unhappy souls who have generally reached the decision that Talking To The Manager is a good idea.
The book is a series of incidents and explorations around the afterlife, establishing the rules and the characters properly so that the events which transpire make proper story-telling sense. I would not have guessed this to be a first novel.
Contains spoilers for the video series or vice-versa; romantic and erotic and remarkably well-inclined to atheists for a book set in Hell and featuring Heaven, Valhalla, Paradise, Elysium... God makes an appearance but Lucifer gets better lines. I liked it.
