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4 primary booksAfterlife is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2009 with contributions by Marlene Perez, Willow Rose, and Mur Lafferty.
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This was a good conclusion to the series. Although I'm always going to want more. LOL
Fantastic end to the series. Kate and Daniel come to grips with the mess of things that they've made, and work with the other new gods to find a way to fix things.
One of the things I especially appreciated about this novella was the way Lafferty expands on the concepts introduced in the previous volume, Wasteland - not only the airborne city Meridian and its twin, Lathe, but also the different gods that were introduced. Their archetypes will be familiar to anyone who's studied Greek mythology (or, probably, to anyone who's read enough DC comics), but they're infused with enough personality and idiosyncrasies that you don't see them as divine archetypes but actual, real characters, which is something that's often difficult when writers are writing about divinity.
There's also a climactic, apocalyptic battle against the primordial force of chaos that threatens to destroy two worlds. Let's not forget about that.
If you're interested, and/or if you're a fan of Gaimanesque fantasy, I'd say give the series a read, but don't start with this volume.