Kat, a lapsed Catholic and promiscuous stripper, never thought she would get into Heaven. Even as she stands there at the Pearly Gates, she naturally expects to be sent directly to Hell. She picks a fight with St. Peter just for fun, but rules are rules, and Kat makes it into Heaven on a minor technicality. Once there, Kat discovers, much to her dismay, the angels are jerks, the only music is God-awful Christian rock, and her brand-new halo comes with some most troubling conditions. As if things weren’t dismaying enough, Kay reunites with her father, who found eternal peace in a bottomless bottle of scotch, and her pot-smoking aunt, whose demon dealer resides in Hell. When she tracks down the demon, he tells Kat about his home in the desolate, fiery pit – where it rains blood but possesses all the earthly pleasures she misses so much in her disappointing afterlife. Heaven isn’t the paradise Kat was promised in Sunday school, and she wants out. But will they let her go?
Dark bleatings, lovely tribe! Today’s review is the first from our newest guest goat, Juliet Rose. Welcome, Juliet!
This book was a fun and twisted ride into a familiar concept. Heaven and Hell. I wouldn’t define this as horror, rather dark, speculative fiction. The main character Kat was instantly relatable and not afraid to say the things most of us only think. She is brash and confident, using the world as she sees fit. An unexpected accident ends all that and she finds herself in a place called Heaven. Just not like the Heaven from church stories. Jesus is clueless, the angels are mean, the other inhabitants seem like they don’t belong (tyrants, serial killers, etc). Kat comes to find getting into Heaven is as simple as asking for forgiveness no matter what kind of life a person lived. However, she also finds Heaven isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and her curiosity about what Hell is really like grows. If Heaven is a lie, what is Hell? She sets off on a path to find out the truth, and her missing cat that died in the accident, Buster.
While I thoroughly enjoyed this fast-paced and humorous tale, it merely scratched the surface of what was possible on Kat’s journey. The author is great at developing characters, even making the reader sort of like ones that initially they despised. The plot was a little thin, leaving some unanswered questions. All in all this was a great read and had me chuckling at the many quirky aspects of the afterlife.
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About the Reviewer
Juliet Rose is a multi-award-winning cross-genre author in contemporary fiction, visionary suspense, sci-fi realism, and supernatural horror. She is adept at blending genres and challenges both herself and the reader to think outside of their comfort zone by introducing new ideas into familiar tropes. She has eight published novels and her first novella Stitched Together. In her free time, she also dabbles in magazine and anthology writing. While she resides in the mountains of Georgia, she’s lived all over the United States and Mexico, using these experiences in her writing.
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