A review by maises
Lazarus Is Dead by Richard Beard

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

“The fate of the resurrected is uninterrupted misery, with no reason to smile for thirty years to come.”

I’m trying to articulate why this has given me such a heavy throat. We all know how the story is supposed to go. It’s about trying to escape fate and losing. Or not trying to escape at all and still losing. It’s about loving someone desperately who loves you too, but only the same as he loves everyone else. Or so you think. Because… I mean. He wept.

Beautifully written! In love with Beard’s pacing and atmosphere, as well as the natural fallback into historical sleuthing between musings. It felt alive and beating at all times and every emotion flew off at the page at me in real time.