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booknooknoggin's review
3.0
Same religious crap as the last book I read in this series. I don't think I need to read anymore....this series just has not caught my interest. Stupid ending, and the fact that the last issue was drawn overly cartoony did not help too.
xterminal's review
4.0
Mike Carey, Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence (Vertigo, 2004)
Lucifer sets a crew to Naglfar to journey to the Mansions of the Silence, where Elaine and Mona's spirits are in torment. No, it seems Elaine's storyline is not yet finished, though a good number of loose ends get tied up in this volume. What really impresses me about Carey's series, as impressed me about Gaiman's before this, is how many surprises can be packed into each volume; this is heavy stuff, it is, and Carey always seems to strike on just the right plot twist to pull a few more surprises out of his hat. Great stuff. ****
Lucifer sets a crew to Naglfar to journey to the Mansions of the Silence, where Elaine and Mona's spirits are in torment. No, it seems Elaine's storyline is not yet finished, though a good number of loose ends get tied up in this volume. What really impresses me about Carey's series, as impressed me about Gaiman's before this, is how many surprises can be packed into each volume; this is heavy stuff, it is, and Carey always seems to strike on just the right plot twist to pull a few more surprises out of his hat. Great stuff. ****
lordofthemoon's review
4.0
The sixth volume of Lucifer's story sees him commissioning a vessel to sail to the Mansions of the Silence, with a hand-picked crew to retrieve the soul of Elaine Belloc, the girl who, unwittingly, gave up her life to retrieve him from the unlife where he was trapped. That story is interwoven with those of the crew, including the half-angel Cal, Jill Presto, unwilling mother-to-be of the child of sentient tarot deck, the Basanos, a giant, a ghost and two fallen Cherubim.
At least as interesting as that story is the one going on in parallel with Lucifer's discussions with his brother Michael and their view of the mind of God, along with the consequences of that. It's a compelling story and one that had me turning the pages rapidly. The mythology of the series is really starting to build up and the relationships between characters taking on new meanings. And at the centre, there's always Lucifer, standing ever apart, always one step ahead of everybody else. Roll on volume 7.
At least as interesting as that story is the one going on in parallel with Lucifer's discussions with his brother Michael and their view of the mind of God, along with the consequences of that. It's a compelling story and one that had me turning the pages rapidly. The mythology of the series is really starting to build up and the relationships between characters taking on new meanings. And at the centre, there's always Lucifer, standing ever apart, always one step ahead of everybody else. Roll on volume 7.
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