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hsienhsien27's review
3.0
So I'm back in the Hunt game. I've been reading her books pretty fast. After this, I think all I have are her YA/NA trilogy and two more novellas? Although, I will admit that I have mixed feelings for this one. I don't know if it's because I was getting a burn out on reading books or just a burn out on her. So this one is more on the religious spectrum, with Jesus, the Devil, and God who are the ones that bring back some fallen angels that eat people and do horrible things because I don't know, they were really depressed or something or dysfunctional. This is a novella, so of course there's a lot of information left out. But basically, this is a novella about some people finding out they were supernatural beings after committing suicide a few times. A sort of self-discovery story by dying. It was very bizarro, but I didn't really like this one too much. It felt "meh," for me.
"Just give me what I want, Diavol. There's no need for any one person to have complete control. I think history has proven dictatorships don't work out well."
"God was a greedy being. He wouldn't allow any other love in Heaven but the love for him. God cursed us both and split us."
Originally posted here:http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2015/06/mini-reviews-of-mini-books-how-to-kill.html
"Just give me what I want, Diavol. There's no need for any one person to have complete control. I think history has proven dictatorships don't work out well."
"God was a greedy being. He wouldn't allow any other love in Heaven but the love for him. God cursed us both and split us."
Originally posted here:http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2015/06/mini-reviews-of-mini-books-how-to-kill.html
keganfrank's review
5.0
An interesting read with a cleaver title and cover. Being a big fan of the color pink I admit its why I decided to read it. At 110 pages I figured if it was bad I wasn't wasting all that much of my life to give it a try. I am a fast reader so that maybe 2hrs lost if it went badly. As a big fan of Dante's Inferno I have always been interested in the struggle between heaven and hell as portrayed in books. So for me this was very interesting. I actually wish It could have been longer. The only thing I disliked was that the pink haired girl didn't get more pages!
getlitwithmegan's review
3.0
Strange, yet kind of fun at the same time. VERY short read. Nothing to do with killing yourself - just a power struggle between the characters over Heaven, Purgatory, Earth, and Hell.
tin_squid's review
4.0
I liked it, it was interesting, but it ended so abruptly I feel a little let down. 3.5 stars really.
jada223's review
4.0
This book was short, but very interesting. A very cool and unique take on Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, and the various inhabitants. Definitely worth the hour it'll take you to read this. :)
craigpartain's review
2.0
This book gets 2 stars not because it's poorly written but because of how it is marketed.
The book ends up being a series of vignettes throughout which the narrative is slowly revealed to be about a power struggle between the powers of Heaven, Earth, Hell, and Purgatory. The key players are God (hiding away on Earth), Death (a junkie), and Diavol (the devil). And vampires, apparently.
For what it's worth, the interpretations of these characters actually are fairly interesting for the most part.
My issue, as mentioned, is with the book's marketing. Because I had little interest in reading this sort of book.
There was nothing in the title or the cover or even in Hunt's other works that I've read which suggested this was going to be a book about the supernatural. The book's synopsis is short and lacks description. Even reading the free sample pages available on Amazon would not have revealed this, since the supernatural aspects aren't introduced within the first 20 pages.
The book ends up being a series of vignettes throughout which the narrative is slowly revealed to be about a power struggle between the powers of Heaven, Earth, Hell, and Purgatory. The key players are God (hiding away on Earth), Death (a junkie), and Diavol (the devil). And vampires, apparently.
For what it's worth, the interpretations of these characters actually are fairly interesting for the most part.
My issue, as mentioned, is with the book's marketing. Because I had little interest in reading this sort of book.
There was nothing in the title or the cover or even in Hunt's other works that I've read which suggested this was going to be a book about the supernatural. The book's synopsis is short and lacks description. Even reading the free sample pages available on Amazon would not have revealed this, since the supernatural aspects aren't introduced within the first 20 pages.
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