This book contains extremely graphic violence, sexual violence, sexual content, and it's not that I don't recommend it for those reasons - I'm simply giving readers a fair warning.

I don't recommend it for many reasons unrelated to the above warning.

I do not understand the high reviews for this book. I really wish I did, because I would go back and read it and be able to say "Aha! There it is!". Unfortunately, there was nothing about this book but I enjoyed, and that's a real shame, because this book had the potential to be one of those ones it really tears you apart, kicks your ass and leaves you rabid for more while simultaneously questioning everything you believe in.

This ain't that book.

There is lots of discussion about how offensive the book is and who will or will not be offended by it. I agree there is going to be a segment of the population where the brutality presented in this book is going to be too much for them, and another segment of the population where this book will be downright sacrilegious.

I don't fall into either one of those groups.

I'm offended at the bad writing. I'm offended at the terrible dialogue. I'm offended by one-dimensional characters.

I'm offended a story about Nyx, the Queen of Hell, two old gods, Lucifer, and a really pissed off Jesus Christ ended up being so stunted by the writing and further dragged down by the annoying dialogue, that I actually got BORED.

I get that the author can do graphic, masochistic, sadistic, depraved, and violent. If you're going to give me page after page up the graphic violence, rape, torture, and sexually charged dynamic, you had better give me the characters to back that up.

It didn't.

The book is easy to read, but not well edited. The story dragged, and then meandered, and then lost its way for a bit, while being punctuated by a few moments where you thought the story was really going to drag you into the Hellfire that surrounded this whole thing only for it to go back into its previous meandering.

This could have been a book that kept all of the debauchery intact and still delivered a story with incredible depth. It really did have the potential to be a brilliant story interwoven with the essence of the dark, horrific world he created.

In this case, the story was sacrificed to amplify the horrors, and for me that just didn't work.

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