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A review by jayspa65
Lucifer, Vol. 6: Mansions of the Silence by Peter Gross, David Hahn, Ryan Kelley, Mike Carey, Dean Ormston
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Lucifer Morningstar traffics in debts and favors, but until now he's always been the owed and not the owing. That changed when Elaine Belloc, God's granddaughter, sacrificed her life to save his, and now the Devil's out to settle that score (and maybe further his own machinations) by bringing Elaine back from the half-world where her soul is trapped. And so Lucifer gathers a rag-tag band of what he refers to as loose-ends, packs them off on a ship borrowed from Loki, and sends them on their questing way while he deals with other matters.
With almost the entirety of this book taken up with the quest narrative, Mansions of the Silence is a much more straight-forward tale than most of the other volumes in Carey's series. I found that refreshing, though I can see how others might feel like there's not a whole lot going on here (and, comparatively, there's not). But how can you be disappointed in a story wherein a Japanese god makes paper lanterns out of the souls of small children? Or where you find out that, in service to his goals, Lucifer is just as willing to destroy worlds as build them?
With almost the entirety of this book taken up with the quest narrative, Mansions of the Silence is a much more straight-forward tale than most of the other volumes in Carey's series. I found that refreshing, though I can see how others might feel like there's not a whole lot going on here (and, comparatively, there's not). But how can you be disappointed in a story wherein a Japanese god makes paper lanterns out of the souls of small children? Or where you find out that, in service to his goals, Lucifer is just as willing to destroy worlds as build them?