Review: How Does Death Fight Back?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
It's taken me a few days to come to terms with the ending of an era.  The last installment of our favorite azz kicker, Niki Slobodian.It was all I had hoped for and more.  Of course, start with book one, because this is an incredible series.Niki is still death, the grim reaper of all human souls.  She is trying to find her way in a world where the souls of the dead follow and call to her, painfully so.  To the point where her only solace and semblance of peace comes from her stolen moments in time spent in Hell.  With Lucifer.  Yes, you heard me right.Don't hate me, but much as I loved Lucifer, looking back, I loved Sam too.  I still have a hard time letting him go.  Or who Sam had been once upon a time.  And Gage, he is so near and dear to me.Special note that every single time the creator has parts in this series, it is just put together exquisitely.  You never know what you are going to get, and what an amazing mind Murray has to portray God in such a way.  I am not a fan of organized religion, but inside myself I am very spiritual, and I really get a special kick every time she'd have the creator make an appearance.  (Possible spin off?  Might there be a way to pull that off?)Our Niki is up against some stolen power that even the creator fears.  But she has never been one to turn tail and run.  What does death fear, they wanted to know.  I think the better question is - who is fool enough to think they can best death."End of the world," he [Bobby Gage] said weakly.  "Ain't that a bitch."Indeed.  But so is Niki and she is not one to take anything lying down.