It is a very old and very powerful trope I adore. Yes, I am pretty aware why I started to read it at all.

Am I now lord over the living as well as the dead? Shall I sent my Revenants to hear the oaths of my full people? Shall they ask a tribute in my name? Or yours?” But if the living can bring themselves to at last admit their defeat, I suppose I can be gracious enough to accept their honorifics. Indeed, when last I spoke with the emissaries of Men, I was told they would never acknowledge nor submit to my right of rule. “Am I your lord? I have never been titled by the living. What’s even worse, His Deadliness spoke to Lan in paragraphs! How can you be menacing, intimidating, scary even, and so long-winded? A quote: Oh and they quarreled like almost all the time. Woo-hoo! Then the author wants me to believe that they fell in love because Azrael could give Lan super orgasm and Lan could return the favour plus treated him like any other human male. The book plot in a nutshell would go like this: an illiterate girl with average looks throws herself at Azrael, the Lord of Life and Death, the bane of humanity, an ancient alien being. Mind you the previous books were hardly perfect. Overall I feel Smith’s latest work just isn’t up to par with the previous ones. Still I admit this time my tolerance was sorely tested. They are long, they are hard to categorize, they feature monsters which usually have sex with human women, and their heroines, more often than not, make me annoyed.

Usually I am pretty tolerant when it comes to R. Instead, Azrael offers her a chance to convince him, and all she has to do is submit herself to the chill embrace of the lord of the Land of the Beautiful Dead. To her surprise, she does not immediately die the hero’s death she expected. If the war can never truly end until the Eaters are ended, she will go to Haven, to Azrael himself, and demand he end them. But even as extinction looms, humanity will never surrender to their monstrous conqueror.įor Lan, this brutal life has been the only one she’s ever known, but she still believes it can change. Now he rules in the walled city of Haven with his favored Children and his dead court, while all that is left of the living struggles to survive in the ruins of a world that used to be their own. He ascended from the darkness years ago-Azrael the Eternal, Azrael the Undying, Azrael Who Is Death-bringing with him the black rains, the fires, the souring of the sky, and the Eaters. SHE WOULD DARE ANYTHING TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM HIS RULE.

Land of the beautiful dead r lee smith