A review by myxomycetes
The Liminal War by Ayize Jama-Everett

4.0

This is two-fisted pulpy insanity where super powered humans not quite allied with a sentient fungus god's messiah travel through time to hang out with Bob Marley and play guitar with Robert Johnson while fighting kinda-sorta-not-quite-vampires and an evil drug dealing Professor X type guy. Halfway through there's a scene where the protags are on a ghost ship traveling through time and the villains attack them with prehistoric sharks, while the messiah of the fungus god has to brand himself with the souls of dead Africans lost in the middle passage, and I have no idea what's going on or why, but PREHISTORIC SHARKS!

Think Octavia Butler meets Andrew Vachss with a healthy dose of gonzo thrown in.