Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

For Whom the Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn



5 Stars

They told her to go to Hell.

She went, but on her own terms.

Lily isn’t exactly thrilled with her arrival in the Afterlife, but what awaits her there is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined: Deities wait in line at the coffee shop. Fae flit between realms. Souls find ways to make death a beginning.

As she explores the many corners of the Afterlife, Lily finds herself surprisingly drawn to a place most people would avoid at all costs: Hell. Armed with years of customer service experience and pent-up sarcasm, Lily carves a job out for herself amongst Hell’s demons, sending souls to their rightful circles with more than a hint of sass.

Lily’s expectations are subverted every day in Hell—especially by Bel, a demon general with a distractingly sexy voice. The two meet by chance and form an immediate, deeply healing friendship, but the undeniable heat between them threatens to combust.

Meanwhile, something stirs beyond the boundaries of their world, threatening to destroy everything they’ve known and everything that could be…unless they fight like Hell to stop it.

I loved this book so much. It would have been my number one book for the month if it hadn’t been read in the same month as Devney Perry’s Shield of Sparrows. This book deals with death and dying and if this subject is hard for you avoid the book. I loved that Lily creates a help desk in hell to deal with crabby afterlife souls. She gets to take out her anger on those who are going to different levels of hell or to help them find their afterlife. This book has so much humor along with the serious notes which led me to not be able to put the book down. Would definitely read again.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2023

King of Flesh and Bone by Liv Zander

 












3 Star

Enoch is the God of Death and has taken a break from collecting souls. Humans when they die are left to wonder the earth without rest. The only way he might consider going back to collecting souls is if he gets a wife. Ada ends up in his kingdom asking for his help and in return she will become his wife. Will they find their happy ending?

This is very much a horror dark romance. It hit all the right notes for me. The story was intriguing. I loved the villain as the love interested. The 3 stars is because of the cliffhanger ending. So tired of having to wait for the next book in a series. When I read this there was almost a year before book two was set to come out. It is now out, and review is forthcoming. I liked seeing Enoch coming out of his anger to be with Ada and then the ending where he thinks she’s betrayed him chef’s kiss. If you enjoy dark gory stories this one hit all the notes for me and was worth reading.

Book 1 Pale Court

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