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Managing Death (Death Works Trilogy #2)

Trent Jamieson

Why we're reading this: Upcoming release. Highly rated Aussie Urban Fantasy. It's not easy being Death. For starters, people keep…more
[close] Upcoming release. Highly rated Aussie Urban Fantasy. It's not easy being Death. For starters, people keep dying. And then, they keep getting up again.Steven de Selby got promoted. This makes the increasing number of stirrers (and the disturbing rumors of a zombie god rising sometime soon) his problem. That time management seminar he keeps meaning to take would also remind him that he's got a Death Moot to plan, a Christmas party to organize, and an end-of-the-world thing to avert.Steven must start managing Death, before Death starts managing him, or this time the Apocalypse will be more than Regional.

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May 19, 2011 Alan Baxter rated it really liked it

Shelves: dark-fantasy, horror

I'm really enjoying this series by Trent Jamieson. This is the second of three and it did have a bit of a middle book feel. For the first two thirds or so I was interested, but not gripped like I had been by the first one. The last third of the book, however, really picked up and interesting stuff happened. I'm really excited now for the last book, with the long arc of the series ramping up to be a very exciting confrontation.

Ideally I'd give this book 3 1/2 stars - being a bit "middle book", it ...more

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Sep 01, 2021 Graham Clements rated it liked it

Okay horror comedy sequel, set in Brisbane Australia. Original concept, ie set in an organisation that's purpose is to release/guide souls from the recently dead to the afterlife. They have to stop stalker spirits from taking over the bodies. ...more

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