Product Description

A genre-busting novel that challenges the world's oldest destiny.

Set in modern-day Washington, D.C., REQUIEM depicts the end of the Devil's ten-billion-year career. For the first time in his existence, Lucifer falls in love, and this event threatens to transform his identity and perhaps even his destiny. Gianna O'Keefe is the woman who drags him out of his ancient despair and points him toward possible salvation.

Yet Lucifer's path from evil is neither straight nor smooth. Pursuing love means betraying his fellow fallen angels, the loyal friends who once followed him to damnation. Divine and infernal forces seem to conspire against his and Gianna's union. Lucifer's empire crumbles around him as he dares to defy the natural order and question his fate.

Winner of the 2000 National Writers Association Novel contest.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #155546 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 396 pages

Review
...a fresh new voice in urban fantasy. REQUIEM FOR THE DEVIL blends fantasy, sensuality, and humor in a remarkable tale. -- author Catherine Asaro

REQUIEM is a tale of redemption, written with flair and style. Highly recommended. -- Library Journal

From the Publisher
A wildly original debut, REQUIEM FOR THE DEVIL reflects iPublish.com's commitment to using the digital medium to connect readers with new and undiscovered writing talent.

Customer Reviews

The Devil in love?
Lucifer, a.k.a. Louis Carvalho, falls in love with Gianna O'Keefe while she sings the Blues at the Grotto.

The Devil is instantly drawn into her world of goodness, mesmerized by her inner beauty, and the lengths she goes to help others. He begins to question his place in eternity and realizes that although he has a certain amount of power, he's not free.

As Gianna points him to possible salvation, his brothers...Beelzebub, Belial, and Mephistopheles...feel betrayed, and the road to Heaven heats up. Lucifer's life crumbles around him as he defies fate and looks for a way back to Heaven's door.

REQUIUM FOR THE DEVIL is imaginative, humerous, and sensual. Ms. Smith-Ready brings a refreshing newness to the world of fiction.

Beauty and *The Beast*
Let me begin by affirming my anchorings in Buddhism; I am not a Christian, and I don't make a habit of reading books with heavy Christian undertones.

This book was so good, though.

Written from Lucifer's POV, this book takes the reader on a journey through the Devil's second Fall; not falling from Grace, but falling in love with a mortal woman.

It's witty, funny, lusty, and downright painful. And the moral of the story might even make you rethink your definition of "evil"...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Being a-religious (not an atheist or agnostic - not really anything easily described or cast in a silo, put in a building and wrapped up with a nice bow), I shy away from books with "God" or "Devil" in their titles.... I normally read science fiction - not books that border on fantasy realism or even sci-fi fantasy. But the reviews for the book and my burgeoning interest in the e-book medium piqued my interest.

So, let me say this: The book is startling; I would give it 6 stars if I could. The author demonstrates a healthy respect for you and me, the readers and she doesn't spend time falling into stereotyping in her character development. I was surprised by this mainly because I didn't expect it. I was eager to read the book and eager to get to the end and am eager for her next book. I sat at my computer all weekend devouring Requiem.

Yes, it is a somewhat edgy. So if you are not an edgy type of person, you may not like reading the book. But...if you are quirky, whether or not you believe in God and the Devil and their soldiers, if you have imagination and joy and hope, if you see truth and want truth...you should read Requiem.

Best of luck, Ms. Smith-Ready! I look forward to your next novels.