On a Pale Horse

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. When the grim reaper shows up a few seconds early, Zane shoots him instead of using the gun on himself as he’d planned. Now, instead of being dead, Zane is Death. He has to take over the office, riding around the world in his convertible pale horse collecting......more

This is the first in the Incarnations of Immortality series, and probably the best of the batch. I believe I read somewhere that Anthony originally intended only to write the five (Death, Time, Fate, War, and Earth), and I think he probably should have stopped there, because while With a Tangled Ske......more

This was the book that got me into reading fiction many years ago, and inspired me to want to write. The reading happened straight away and I've not stopped since; the writing took a little longer to get started, and I see no sign of stopping that now either. So, reading for the second time many year......more

This was a fun book and I plowed through it in about a day. It’s about an average Joe who accidentally kills Death and ends up taking his job. I was initially worried that the intriguing premise would lose its shine after a couple chapters, but I was wrong. The story maintains a high enough level of......more