In Hell, there was life; there were the lowly Demons and Specters, and the most evil being Lucifer. In Heaven, there existed the noble Angels and the Great Spirit.
Eventually when time was created, a new dimension was woven and was forced to abide by the laws of time; it was Ora. The first few millennia’s of Ora was full of emptiness, unlike the other two dimensions; this one had no life, until the life of man was created. When these beings where formed, one final dimension was created which was named Axiom. This dimension housed two guardians of time, the guardian of the beginning known as Life, and the guardian of the end known as Death.
As Life and Death watched time go its course, and collected lives as well as gave lives, a type of being arose in Axiom known as the blank reapers, they traveled to Ora through the Omphalos; this is place where each of the four dimension are connected, as well as the only place to travel to another one of the four dimensions, it was considered the center of the universe. However, it was restricted to Life, as well as Man when they are in their physical bodies. Since time does not flow in these dimensions, Life, a form of time could not travel through the Omphalos.
When the reaping blanks and Death traveled through the Omphalos, Life set up a trap and absorbed his brother, becoming a new being of Life and Death. The reaping blanks however would not follow Life’s orders of laws and keep death flowing in Ora. So he traveled through the Omphalos, and met a dying man named Azrael. When Life met him, he convinced Azrael to give up his mortal physical body to serve him and be free of death. But this came at a cost he would be force to carry out the duties of death and no longer live a pure life. Azrael took this chance to become immortal. He shook Life’s hand and in that moment, his skin melted, his muscle burned and fell to ash, his blood boiled and evaporated into the air, the organs inside of his body exploded with such power, that what was left of his body was whipped around and banged against the ground, the life was being pulled out of his body painfully, he screamed and cried wanting his life to end but it couldn’t, he died a thousand times and experienced the death that Death himself had to deal before being absorbed, then finally everything stopped. All that was left of his body was his decaying skeleton, anyone looking at this would have thought that this was the end for Azrael, however, Life bent over the remnants of a once honorable man and said “Awaken”, and Azrael rose.
I haven't read the series yet, but I've h heard wonderful things 🙂 Oh wow! This is really intriguing! I mean, I love all sorts of myths and folklore stories etc so this is like a balm to my nerdy brain, Emma! "He shook Life’s hand and in that moment, his skin melted, his muscle burned and fell to ash, his blood boiled and evaporated into the air, the organs inside of his body exploded with such power," omg this is really gore-y, but so fitting for Halloween month 😀 Ha! I'm so glad you decided to put this on your blog. Emma! I'm definitely intrigued 🙂
I've seen some pretty wonderful reviews for this series. I've actually decided to finally start them before the year is out.
Great post!
I absolutely adore this series. I mean really is there anything better than Charley and Reyes? All of the characters are fabulous and it just gets better and better as it goes!
Great post and thanks for the giveaway!
this series ROCKS
Love this series. Thank you for this story and for the giveaway 🙂
I adore the Charlie series 🙂
I haven't read them as yet, but they are high on my TBR. I have started purchasing the Kindle copies! 🙂
I love these, dying for the series to keep going already. She's my anita blake replacement since the books arent copy paste and havent gotten completely stale like that series has.
This series is on my tbr list, but haven't had the time to pick them up. Hopefully soon!
I love Grim Reapers!! Especially CHARLEY DAVIDSON! I really do love this series! <3
i love this series. I also live in NM. Cant wait to read 7
These books are the BEST! I loved them so much. Darynda Jones is a genius.
Thanks for the giveaway!
This series is AWESOME! I love darynda Jones and her books! She is witty, fun, and just sensational.
I have read the first book and just started the second. I love Charley Davidson! Darynda Jones is a teriffic author! I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
First female character I fell in love with from the first sentence. Can't wait to finish read the entire series and read it again and again and again and again…this goes and for a long time so…Halloween Baby Out!!! *tuck and roll*
What a great post. Gosh, yes, this series is so good!! Charley cracks me up.
I've read the first two books in this series and had a lot of fun! Darynda is wickedly funny! Thanks for sharing the origins of the Grim Reaper and for the lovely giveaway! 🙂
This series is fantastic. Darynda is an amazing author. I need to read 7th grave, but am otherwise up to date on the series. I adore all the humor!!
I posting a comment again because I don't think my first one posted 🙂 I absolutely love the Charley Davidson series! I'm listening to Seventh Grave and No Body at the moment, Lorelei King is a fantastic narrator for any fans of the series the audiobooks are really worth listening to! 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway
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Love this series. Thanks for the giveaway 🙂