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A review by wanderlustlover
Uncanny Magazine Issue 35: July/August 2020 by Chimedum Ohaegbu, Elsa Sjunneson, Michael Damian Thomas, Lynne M. Thomas
3.0
Spring 2021 (April);
-- Specifically “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”
This story very much was reaching for that gritty punk noir feel, except with the twist being that all the mob bosses & vigilante/detective heroes are basically fallen angels, negotiating the politics of their fall and why they fell and it's so long ago everyone in the room but their (pet-) people really know what happened and who did what.
This story tried really hard, but I just couldn't find myself much invested in it, which deeply surprised me. I really like retellings on things, and so few retellings dig into the meat of the fallen from any heaven with a new twist.
-- Specifically “The Inaccessibility of Heaven”
This story very much was reaching for that gritty punk noir feel, except with the twist being that all the mob bosses & vigilante/detective heroes are basically fallen angels, negotiating the politics of their fall and why they fell and it's so long ago everyone in the room but their (pet-) people really know what happened and who did what.
This story tried really hard, but I just couldn't find myself much invested in it, which deeply surprised me. I really like retellings on things, and so few retellings dig into the meat of the fallen from any heaven with a new twist.