Our friend Loren Eaton, at I Saw Lightning Fall,reviews Death’s Doors:
Imagine a blender. Chuck in Atwood’s aforementioned novel, Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder,” Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and Walker’s own West Oversea. Add a generous pinch of profanity, a scoop of Christian church history, and several comment sections plucked at random from various Huffington Post articles. Now pulse for two or three seconds. Voila! That’s Death’s Doors. Yes, it’s just as lumpy as it sounds. But it’s also works.
If you haven’t gotten it yet, by all means go pick it up. It’s worth your time.
I’m in the middle of it and so far it is great. I’ll be sure to write a review at Amazon when I’m finished.
Thanks, Johan.
One other thing I remembered I really liked in this book – the idea that it’s when the Church in periods of crisis that the miraculous is most likely to occur, and that the Church somehow depends on both pacifists and Crusaders, that fact that a body includes both charismatic happy clappies and dour Calvinists is a feature,not a bug. That’s something I’ve long felt in my gut, but never was able to show it as eloquently as Death’s Doors.
(I guess that’s two things. I didn’t expect a sort of Spanish Inquisition.)
That’s very gratifying. Thanks.