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5/5

James L. Sutter excels at fast-paced action and dialogue that feels more like an action movie than a typical novel. The Redemption Engine is even better in this regard than his first book, Death’s Heretic. This book continues the planar travelogue tradition of the first one, giving amazing descriptions of Heaven and Hell along the way. The description of Heaven was especially good—we’re used to descriptions of Hell by now, it’s comparatively easy to envision a horrible dungeon plane of lost souls. Envisioning a realistic Heaven is more difficult, but the Heaven presented here was as breath-taking and obnoxious by turns as I would expect a plane of Lawful Good souls to be.

If you’ve read Death's Heretic you’ve got a good feel for Salim’s backstory and what makes him tick. This book challenged that in some ways I really wasn’t expecting and left him in a place that felt realistic and left me hoping that another Salim book is coming so that I can see how he’s going to develop.