Book Review: The Eye of Eurydice, by Ryan Talbot
Book Review:
The Eye of Eurydice
By Ryan Talbot.
Talbot invites you into the passenger seat of Eye of Eurydice and hits the gas before you have your seat belt on. You take the ride through break-neck car chases, adrenaline-sodden gunplay, duals of arcane magic, demon possession, necromancy, and the red-assed bitch-smacking of all that oppose the devil. You watch tense negotiations with the power brokers of the underworld, keep careful eye on shifting alliances, old animosities, and debts that run deep. Bear witness to negotiations for the peace of divine nuclear standoff. You stand in amazement at the august majesty of Satan’s stronghold, and the midnight beauty of Perdition’s rolling vistas.
Dive into the deep end of mythology and find you tread that water just fine with Talbot’s guidance. Peel back the veneer of normal to see the bizarre. The world isn’t what you imagined. There are greater players than on heaven and earth and you’ll see that the Divine host isn’t what you were told, and that the Devil reserves an honest paradise everlasting for his own faithful.
The Eye of Eurydice has you riding wing man for Jason Becket, emissary of Satan. He sold his soul and now acts in the Devil’s place on earth, keeping the delicate balance between Perdition and Heaven. But in a seemingly routine assassination Becket runs into a new player in the balance of supernatural power.
Themes of straight forward good and evil are turned on their ear as the acolytes of YHWH are not pristine doers of good, nor are the champions of the Devil the hideous monsters we have been told to expect.
Someone is trying to force the gods’ hands and bring down Armageddon and with it the end of our world. Jason Becket, with you as his 4th wall confidant, will see this fight through to the end.
I highly recommend the Eye of Eurydice to anyone who loves mythology, action, and boot-prints on butt-cheeks.
As Talbot's devil says, "None at my alter but the willing."
Buddy, that's going to be you.
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