Marius don Hellespont and his sidekick, Gerd, are battlefield looters. But they run into trouble and Marius gets mistaken for a king and is brought to the underworld and told that he is now the king of the dead. It's not a job he wants and he needs to find a replacement. But first he's just going to try running away from the dead.
I got completely sucked into the story in the first hundred pages. I lost a bit of steam in the middle section of the book but I didn't lose interest. It's a bizarre story to be sure, and I appreciate that, but for a fantasy adventure it was a little lacking in the suspense category. In the middle of the book I wanted to see more of Gerd. I enjoyed his interactions with Marius. I also enjoyed the above-par writing as well as the original storyline, but I won't be feeling compelled to read the next Marius and Gerd adventure.
