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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Let's Have More in This Series, October 5, 2004
I recently read the Hell books by Holly Lisle (or at least the first three). The books are concerned with the presence of the hellraised on Earth and the interplay between Heaven and Hell.
In the third book, HELL ON HIGH, the devil discovers that one of the Fallen has completely disappeared. A hellraised private eye is enlisted to track down the missing Fallen and discover how it was accomplished. Meanwhile the mere existence of the hellraised has bolstered physicists into new areas of research. Established Laws of Physics are regularly broken by the hellraised so humans should be able to do it as well. The main project is a stardrive that will enable man to reach the stars.
These books were very enjoyable. I particularly enjoyed the scenes in Heaven. This is the Christian Heaven, but all the other afterlife's exist as well and God spends time in all of them. But while this made for very enjoyable reading the author(s) seemed to have no concept of omnipresence. I do recommend these books to anyone who likes a bit of light fantasy that is tied together with well-thought out premises and ideas.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Goes beyond fantasy to touch on the realities of life, December 23, 1997
Being personally acquainted with Ted Nolan, the co-author of "Hell On High" prompted me to purchase this book. Expecting to read a rather bizarre fantasy purely for entertainment, I found a book intertwined with fantasy and irony. Taken as purely entertaining, the story stands alone as an interesting tale. However, one should look beyond pure entertainment. The religious and morale issues and lessons learned are passed to the reader in a sometimes humorous, occasionally serious and yet subtle manner. Upon completion of this book, the reader will undoubtedly have a greater sense of the strength of forces beyond our comprehension as mortal human beings. At the same time, a feeling of the ultimate goodness of the human spirit is both encouraging and enlightening. Holly and Ted have managed to create a blend of pure entertainment with a powerful message for those readers fortunate enough to find this book on their bookshelves.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Best of the series, June 7, 2009
First, its a little disingenuous to subtitle this book "A Devil's Point Novel". Only one relatively brief sequence takes place at Devil's Point, and the fact that it happens there is barely important to the overall story. It could just as easily happened anywhere else.
In fact its kind of a shame that this Hell's Themepark is talked about extensively in the first two books of the series, and could well be far more interesting, if ever actually written into the stories, than anything else in the first two books.
This book, however, does engage you in the story much more solidly than the first two of the series ("Sympathy for the Devil" and "The Devil and Dan Cooley"). You can start straight away with this book and not bother with the first two. I never actually cared about ANY of the characters in the first two books, they were all flat and stereo-typed. The characters in this book had more meat to them. I think there was a different co-author for this book, and possibly he was head and shoulders better than the other co-authors.
The main story was intriguing and the main bad guy was dispicable. There were no real surprises in the entire book, but the story otherwise covered up for that. The one chance the authors had for a real surprise was, I thought, needlessly wasted.
Just one note of warning: As a grown up guy who likes grown up gals, there was a dipiction of a homo-sexual relationship in the book that was slightly off-putting. As Jerry Seinfeld would say, "Not that there's anything wrong with that", but its just not the direction I pursue for my own entertainment. I was a little disappointed that the authors didn't really have the courage to stake out their ground about that relationship ... it ended in the most ambivalent possible way. LOL
That aside, the main story about a renegade fallen angel and her goals was interesting enough for you to give this a try.
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