This includes the way that the story intersperses the narration with the thoughts of characters to give a sense of the scene’s urgency, the character’s doubts, etc. The book is able to use these players to switch seamlessly between some of the most believable, funny, blunt, and real dialogue to some of the most poetically written passages I’ve ever had the pleasure of finding. True despair in the most literal sense of the word. one of the most undoubtedly horrifying depictions of Hell ever concocted by the human mind. The way the book eases the reader into filling those blanks in through context clues and looks into the inner monologues of our protagonists is masterful. It is able to put into words something beyond the understanding of the human mind while still conveying the point that these are only the words that a frantic mind can find to make sense of what is being shown.
What else it has going for it: -amazing descriptive writing, some of the more elaborate, surreal, otherworldly ways of describing the indescribable. A story that, while by all accounts would probably be called blasphemous by a more devout man, teaches a lesson in faith, forgiveness, letting go of the past, redemption, and God’s love that I had never expected to be so poignant from a book like this. LGBTQ/MLM representation that is as heartwarming and believable as it is horribly tragic, painting an unforgiving picture of the cruelty of the past. I also got what I did not expect - the kind of humor that can emerge only from the greatest despair, summoning only the best kind of laughter - the kind that heals. What I expected was what I got - brutal and broken characters (all of whom are likable and believable beyond belief) and the trauma through which they suffer, a look into the bleakness of Europe in the throes of the bubonic plague and the wars that wracked the continent, gripping action, tragic figures, and coming face to face with incomprehensible and otherworldly horrors from the most esoteric bowels of Hell itself as well as angels of Heaven, as terrible as they are beautiful. When I first heard comparisons to Berserk, Bloodborne, A Song of Ice and Fire, and other grim-dark fantasy horror, I was sold immediately, especially if it meant supporting a self-publishing author.
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