I held off on rating and reviewing this book because I wasn’t sure how I felt about it and I wanted to “let it simmer a bit.” I regret this stupid decision now because I still don’t really know how I feel about the book, and now I also don’t really remember the book!
I mean, I remember the book, but I don’t remember like most of the characters names. Who knows what else I’ve forgotten.
What I do remember is that this book is a hybrid genre book, half horror comedy involving a man/demon named Peyote Trip whose job it is to get humans to sign deals for things they want on earth in exchange for Hell claiming them after death. The stuff in Hell was all extremely entertaining, and if had just been that plot, I would have probably given this book five stars. However.
The second half of the book involved a family on earth, who we learn are Peyote’s descendants, and there’s a plot involving him getting a certain amount of generations of his descendants to sign a deal, which was fine and good. My problem is that this plot minus Peyote read indistinguishable from your standard domestic thriller, and there is a reason I do not read those anymore! The ending did sort of make up for me having to read half a book about terrible people with secrets and cheating and lying and ugh. But only on an intellectual level. I still wish those parts had been written as cleverly as the half in Hell following Peyote.
I will read more books by this author, but I will hope that they are more like the parts of this book that I enjoyed than the parts I didn’t.
[3.5 stars]