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Mortality Bridge (2011)

by Steven R. Boyett(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1596063750 (ISBN13: 9781596063754)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Subterranean Press

review 1: Picture Orpheus, Faustus ,Dante, and Niven and Pournelle's "Inferno" as written by Stephen King's twisted younger brother and you'll be close to Mortality Bridge .The prose is strong enough that I keep highlighting paragraphs.....and yet it's filled with a sense of disgust that will make you cringe. And every once in awhile you'll laugh out loud at the absurdity....You should read this book! It will stay with you long after you read the final page
review 2: This is a really good book. It's very well written, emotionally evocative, highly intelligent, vividly descriptive, generally well-rounded, and poetically beautiful in a lot of ways.It's also scary and really, really gross. Seriously: Hell, as seen through the eyes of the protagonist, Niko, is disgusting.I... more flew through this book in a couple of days. I was hooked. I was reaing it at home while reading another book at work and found myself over the weekend not missing the work-book at all, even though it's quite good as well.It is, without going into any real detail (because you can get that from the cover-flap or the basic book description on the GoodReads page) this book is a combination of Dante's Inferno and the story of Orpheus. Of course, rather than a retelling of the later, it's part of the gist that this IS the story of Orpheus, just in another body. He’s been doing this over and over and over and over for thousands of years, just in different bodies and with slightly different circumstances.The second half of the book is basically a car chase. You would think that 200-ish pages of a single car chase would get old, but it doesn't. It, like the rest of the book, is very good.The ending is a sort of cliffhanger, though I can't tell you why there MUST be a second book without a sort of a spoiler, but I'll just say that Dante wrote two other books to go along with Inferno and leave it at that.Recommended, if you are into this sort of thing and can handle really vivid and horrible descriptions of Hell. less

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