Welcome to Purgatory, located in Washington, DC. Most people end up in Purgatory after they die because they have unfinished business. Others are given a chance to atone for their sins, and earn their way into Heaven. And yet others won't accept that life as they've known it is over - they're afraid to start the journey to give up their corporeal form. Those lost souls drift through Purgatory, haunting the living, as powerless in death as they are in life. Not Nina. She'd been long dead, spending her time in Purgatory intervening with the living to help them resist temptation and dodge untimely deaths, when an ancient demon targeted her and cast her back into a living body with her memory suppressed. Now she's got her memory back, but she's dead again - and just in time, because a war has started. Earth and Purgatory versus...something else - something bad and something worse. The trouble with dominion wars is that you never can tell who's good and who's evil - not to mention who's alive and who's dead. Nina's got to figure it out fast, though, because Heaven isn't going to sit by and watch Hell take over.
The only problem for Nina is that along with her new death comes new temptations.
Not what it says on the cover really. The story starts with Roman's death. He's given a choice of heaven or working to save the world against demons. He chooses to save the world and gathers a team to help. One of that team is Nina, currently overshadowing another person, she will end up in hell if she continues as she is and he has to try to convince her to leave the person she has inhabited and help him with his mission.
It's pretty predictable, but not what I expected from the blurb. It's more about Roman and his coming to terms with death and his mission. I liked the story but found it lacking in some ways, it was readable but I had no impulse to go looking for more in this world.
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20 August, 2009:
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