- Paperback: 334 pages
- Publisher: Antitype Press; 2nd Print edition (1 Aug 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1907130012
- ISBN-13: 978-1907130014
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,767,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Heaven's Hell' is fun. But dark fun. The women are gorgeous, the characters are larger than life and the dialogue is crisp and genuinely witty. Gray has a good ear for a sharp one-liner and there's no shortage of humour. But Gray's Heavens are a long way from the Elysian Fields. It's more like a chaotic office environment where everyone is overworked, stressed out and undervalued. The deities here succumb to the same temptations as the rest of humanity and are portrayed as having as little control over their existence as the rest of us. The book treads a fine line between comedy and tragedy and Gray's portrayal of the joy and fragility of lesbian relationships is neatly drawn and painfully realistic. ----Iona Fiesta, OUTSKIRTS Magazine
Heaven's Hell has a subtitle: Sex and the City vs. The Bible. I really think that about says it all. Heaven's Hell is funny. It's full of quirky one-liners and witty repartee. Heaven is a bureaucracy, complete with God in the corner office, her incompetent personal assistant, her staff angels, the works. Elle (God) and her angels, plus her ex Lucy (the Devil) are all mixed up with Greek and Roman mythology. The narrator is Cupid who says: What you read and what really happens can be two distant cousins. Take Medusa, she went to the islands and got badly done cornrows. Combine that with legendary PMT and suddenly she's a bitch with snake hair. Despite what we've been told, it's all about the paperwork. This is a rather long book, full of twists and turns, which keeps you interested partly because you never know what's going to happen next and partly because of the quirky humor that permeates it. One sweetness is the portrayal of lesbian relationships as joyous and fragile. Sometimes things don't work out even if you're God. If you have a sense of humor (or if you've ever worked in an office!) you can't help but enjoy Heaven's Hell. --Carole of Rainbow Reviews
Heaven's Hell has a subtitle: Sex and the City vs. The Bible. I really think that about says it all. Heaven's Hell is funny. It's full of quirky one-liners and witty repartee. Heaven is a bureaucracy, complete with God in the corner office, her incompetent personal assistant, her staff angels, the works. Elle (God) and her angels, plus her ex Lucy (the Devil) are all mixed up with Greek and Roman mythology. The narrator is Cupid who says: What you read and what really happens can be two distant cousins. Take Medusa, she went to the islands and got badly done cornrows. Combine that with legendary PMT and suddenly she's a bitch with snake hair. Despite what we've been told, it's all about the paperwork. This is a rather long book, full of twists and turns, which keeps you interested partly because you never know what's going to happen next and partly because of the quirky humor that permeates it. One sweetness is the portrayal of lesbian relationships as joyous and fragile. Sometimes things don't work out even if you're God. If you have a sense of humor (or if you've ever worked in an office!) you can't help but enjoy Heaven's Hell. --Carole of Rainbow Reviews
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Meet Discord Knight. All she wanted was to die and swap her dark past for eternal bliss, but Fate had other plans. Those plans mark Discord's soul for repatriation and she wakes up dead, in the Heavens, and seconded to an elite department created to remove the vilest of criminals on Earth. Joining her are Elle and Lucy (supreme rulers of Heaven and Hell), and their separate staff. In a modern day setting of overworked and overstressed offices, our narrator, Cupid, escorts us through: venomous betrayal, crime tsunamis, mountainous paperwork backlogs, and an IT system testing all to breaking point. Add to that, an attraction between Elle and Discord, a scheming and vitriolic Amazon Council set on overthrowing Elle, and a bored Lucy overcoming her ADD by trying to cheat a win in the biannual Soul Count that dictates control of Earth for the next six months. Heaven's Hell explores the intertwining nature of salvation and damnation, where good people do bad deeds for the right reasons and bad people do good deeds for the wrong ones. Told using parallel narratives, the novel centers on: Discord's arrival and the impact she has on friends, lovers, enemies, and ultimately herself as she attempts to cope with the mammoth changes since her death; the fight between Lucy and Elle over the stability of their respective areas
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What if Heaven and Hell were run by women? What if the bureaucratic office we spend our lives trying to get away from were the bread and butter of this afterworld? And what if love caused wars and made life a million times more complicated than what goes on in the world of the living? This is what E.A. Gray conjures in this satyrical look at the relationships of women thrust into the roles of Lucifer (Lucy), God (Elle) and a host of characters taken from Greek mythology.
Dialogue here is witty and fast like the punches these women can throw when pushed into a corner. But there's a lot of sensuality too and yearning for the ultimate love. If you are looking for a perfect read this summer, you have come to the right place!
Dialogue here is witty and fast like the punches these women can throw when pushed into a corner. But there's a lot of sensuality too and yearning for the ultimate love. If you are looking for a perfect read this summer, you have come to the right place!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Some books you read and forget about a week later. Others stay with you for months if not years. It is that section of writing that Heaven's Hell falls into.
It's multi layered featuring romance, love story, crime, mystery, office politics, heaven and hell, and a good dose of betrayal. The characters are fun, vibrant, quirky, and have such funny dialogue that always rings true.
I tagged it as Greek Tragdey because it fits this very well. But this book isn't a one horse race. It covers so much, and that's a very fine line, but it's a success. A rare find.
It's multi layered featuring romance, love story, crime, mystery, office politics, heaven and hell, and a good dose of betrayal. The characters are fun, vibrant, quirky, and have such funny dialogue that always rings true.
I tagged it as Greek Tragdey because it fits this very well. But this book isn't a one horse race. It covers so much, and that's a very fine line, but it's a success. A rare find.
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