Lana
is a Reaper, living in Limbo City, making a living collecting souls on
their deaths and delivering them to whatever Afterlife suits them best -
it turns out that all religions were sorta right, you see, and so their
believers are simply measured against their own beliefs before being
ferried on to Heaven/Hell/Nirvana/Summerland etc. Unless they're
unbelievers, in which case they're thrown into the Sea of Eternity.
Despite not being a very good Reaper - she breaks rules, is
insubordinate, lazy and generally a pain in the ass - Lana has somehow
just been given a promotion. Grim, the boss of the Reapers, wants her to
head a crew looking for a particularly special soul who can hold
Eternity together.
This initially appealed to
me because of its ideas, but unfortunately fell flat in the telling. We
jump from plot point to plot point with most of the contents feeling
like ideas for scenes and characters not yet fleshed out, and neither
the relationships (be they the apparently romantic one that springs up
between Lana and an angel she supposedly despises, or those with her
friends and peers) nor the plot points felt remotely organic but simply
appeared because Roquet wanted them to. Description wasn't a strong suit
either, so I was left with only a vague sense of what this world looked
and felt like, what happened in the battles that frequently kicked off,
and no clue whatsoever why both Lana and the soul she was looking for
were so ruddy bloody special.
On the plus side, this was free...
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