Publication Date: March 7, 2021
About the Book
God is furious.He has run out of patience with humans and decided that our time is over.We've had our chance and it's back to the drawing board.Mo, and Jay, best friends who've screwed up in the past, beg him for one more chance to get the humans back on track.Alongside Mr Saluzar, the head of a global charity foundation, and Nick, The Fallen Angel, they hurtle towards Armageddon and their one chance to prove God wrong.They have seven days to save us.
I was not sure what I was going to get into with this book. I read the blurb and was interested but very concerned about how religious this one was going to be. With the understanding that some of it was going to be focused on religion I was going to give it a show...and it did not disappoint. This book is not for those that are easily offended, not for those that want a light story about religion, nor for those that are overly religious. This book was a harsh, violent, cursing depiction of God and his belief that the world is s*** and it should all be destroyed, that no one is worthy of Heaven and so he is going to end it all.
The story is told in by a few different storylines running at once. There is Nick (Lucifer) telling the story of creation and his downfall to a bartender, one that focuses on Miriam and Mr. Saluzar, as well as the larger plot focused one that follows Jay (Jesus) and Mo (Moses) as they attempt to have a second coming and prove to God that the human race should be saved and that they are worthy.
I really enjoyed the alternating perspectives of this story. It gave the background needed to fully grasp how off-the-deep-end Stewart (God) has gone and how much his wrath comes into play. It shows another side/ story for Lucifer, and the overarching plot of the second coming.
What I found very realistic, although we will probably never know, was the way that Jay and Mo are recieved by the world. They attempt to show humans miracles, what it is like to be without, what it means to really be saved... and half the population go absolutely nuts. There are non-believers that not only don't believe but also riot, there are mass suicides, skeptics, social media nay-sayers. It follows a lot of the same trajectory as normal news. In a way it is a sad social commentary.
For me as a non-religious person, I found this book to be funny. The cynicism is strong, the blasphemy is prominent, and the re-imagining is actually really clever. This book is a rollercoaster of weird and over the top. I said that it isn't for the faint of heart, but they should probably read it as well. It is a lot, but it is also very telling. There are undertones of 'we all f***ed up and we need to fix it' that I think everyone should hear.
About the Author
Mark's short story 'Glass Ceiling' won first prize in May, 2015 on Spinetingler's Short story competition and will be included in Ryan Bracha's Twelve Nights at Table Six. dEaDINBURGH reached the quarter finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in 2014 and was a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, 2015.
Mark currently teaches Biology in a Fife secondary school and writes in his spare time, in lieu of sleep.
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