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Half-resurrection blues
326 pages
A shadowy, supernatural mystery that explores the eerie, liminal space between the living and the dead.
What it feels like
This briskly paced urban fantasy immerses readers in a shadowy, liminal world where the boundaries between the living and the dead are constantly blurred. The narrative carries a gritty, investigative tone, following an agent navigating a supernatural bureaucracy while grappling with profound existential mysteries. The mood is eerie and atmospheric, steeped in the unsettling reality of ghosts, wizards, and half-resurrected beings. As the story unfolds, the emotional arc shifts from a sense of isolated duty to a deep, unsettling exploration of lost memory and fractured identity. The prose is grounded yet evocative, perfectly capturing the tension of walking a fine line between two realms. It is an ideal read for fans of supernatural mysteries who are drawn to protagonists caught in the spaces between.
- Mood
- shadowy
- liminal
- eerie
- atmospheric
- Tone
- mysterious
- gritty
- investigative
- supernatural
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- identity and memory · the boundary between life and death · existential mystery · supernatural bureaucracy
- The writing
- Atmospheric and grounded, blending the gritty reality of an agent's work with eerie supernatural elements.
- The arc
- Moves from a state of isolated, amnesiac duty to a profound questioning of identity and existence.
- Who it's for
- Fans of urban fantasy who enjoy gritty supernatural mysteries and protagonists navigating liminal spaces.
Content notes
- death
- amnesia/memory loss
About the book
Carlos Delacruz is one of the New York Council of the Dead's most unusual agents- an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that's missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind- until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death.
Description from Open Library.
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