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MY ⭐️ RATING: 4.75/5
Format: Kindle Whispersync
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Not all heroes go to Heaven.
Blood Subaru is dead. His final request: His brothers sneak his soul into Heaven.
There’s just a few problems; the trail is infested with opportunistic bandits, haunted by vengeful spirits, and guarded by the Gods of Death.
All in a days work for the legendary Brothers Blood. Or at least, it would have been in their prime.
Pulled out of cosy retirement, Blood Ichiro must summon the courage and the strength to climb the Heaven’s Trail for a second time in his life. He doesn’t want to go, but some quests can’t be refused.
Anything for a fallen brother
MY REVIEW
If there’s one thing I love, it’s Rob J. Hayes teaming up with Kim Bretton to deliver another incredible addition to the Mortal Techniques world. Bretton brings to life in narration what Hayes puts on paper or screen, depending on how you read it, I have been excited to read this since the news came out and I had to patiently wait for the audio to whispersync so that I could get the full force of what I love.
Hayes does a phenomenal job in every one of his series of making incredible worlds with great characters, incredible writing and a thoughtful story, Blood Brothers Beyond is no exception to this. I felt exactly what Hayes was putting down in this story in my own feelings that he addressed in the afterward, this was about exploring grief and loss, with a little bit of typical Mortal Techniques action with spirits, demons and bandits roaming the mountain Ichiro and Daijiro must go through to send their brother, Subaru, to heaven.
“Isolationism made philosophy stale. Like any good dish, a truly significant piece of wisdom needed ingredients from many minds.”
While I was on this journey with Ichiro and Daijiro, I couldn’t help but think of my dad that I lost 10 years ago, and picturing my brother and I taking him up the same mountain and fighting the same things they did just to send him to heaven. When you can connect to a story this way, it makes things a lot different as a reader, which made this even better than I had hoped.
Rob likes to write these entries in the Mortal Techniques series as standalones, but I would love to be able to read more on Ichiro and Daijiro’s future. Every entry into this world just proves that I made the right decision to read this series years ago and rightfully put it on a pantheon of one of my favorite series and Rob as one of my favorite authors. I urge you, if you have yet to read this series of standalone novels and novellas, start it now, stop missing out!
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