Death from Carole Gill's perspective VS. Joshua the Angel of Death

Today’s guest blog post is a combination of a comparison written by myself and Carole Gill on her character of Death and my character of the angel of death. Confused yet?

My blog post will be describing the differences and some similarities (comparing) Joshua to Death and Carole will be doing the same on her blog. Connected but different blog posts. So now that I have that explained: I will be focusing on the main difference between the two. But first I will give you an idea of what the characters are like.

Carole Gill is the author of a vampire series focusing on the dark, tormented vampire; Louis Dalton. This vampire is the son of a fallen angel and therefore indestructible; forever doomed to walk the earth and damned for eternity. His mortal enemy is another child of a fallen angel, Echo. However Echo is the perfect definition of Evil.

With both living immortal lives they are bound to meet Death sooner or later. Death is a very interesting character in this series. He finds no pleasure in humans, vampires, or any creatures. He doesn’t love or form relationships. As the son of Lilith and Lucifer he serves the single purpose of reaping the dead.

Then there is Joshua. Joshua is from my own series, The Vessel of Souls. He is introduced in the first book, The Rift.

(http://www.amazon.com/Rift-Vessel-Sou...)

He is the angel of death (not to be thought of as death. Joshua is not death itself, as he says in the second book, coming out on July 31st. He is simply a servant to the actual being) and he serves the purpose of reaping the dead.

That is where the similarities between Gill’s character of Death and my own character of the angel of death end.

The biggest difference between the two is that Death was born into the job and Joshua was forced into it.

Joshua was human once, about a thousand years before The Rift. He was a crusader and was known for caring about sparing lives, not taking them. One day he is visited by the angel of death, Azrael at the time, who tells him that his (Joshua’s) mother is going to be reaped in a week. After being tricked by an angel named Job, Joshua kills the angel of death rather than let his mother die.

His punishment for the murder is to become the very creature he killed. He is transformed into the angel of death and forced to reap the soul of his own mother as his first task.

Joshua is also not immune to the charms of human (or angel) women, unlike Gill’s character of Death. Joshua is very much a womanizer who is incredibly confused when he can’t get a suicidal teenage girl by the name of Rachael out of his head.

He even goes so far as to refuse to reap her soul after she attempts suicide in order to keep her living to discover why he has this attraction. Want more information? You’ll have to read The Rift and The Deceived.

As for Carole’s very interesting books, you can find the first one here:

http://www.amazon.com/House-Blackston...

Don’t forget to check out Carole’s side of the comparison with more info on Death on her website (http://carolegillofficialauthor.blogs...) and make sure to continue following the countdown to The Deceived. We have many more interesting posts on the way.