Review: Obnoxious characters, slow action, humor is very forced
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
I read half way through the book and then skipped to the end to get it over.  Lily, the protagonist, is a shallow uninteresting twit who died by mistake and is hired by a corporation that administers the afterlife (I gather they have a contract with the powers that be) to retrieve souls who have been accidentally conveyed to the wrong afterlife. She uses a rough approximation of Dante to depict heaven and hell.The powers that be are noticeably absent landlords. Her side kick, an alcoholic guardian angel, is a crude buffoon who is overly impressed with his own wit.  Vulgarity is not automatically funny.  Andy Samberg can do it well.  This book didn't.  The third main character, a dead Druid blacksmith, has an incredibly bad Scottish accent.  All in all, this book was tedious.