Rob, thank you for making your book available to us through Smashwords (one of my favourite sites). It’s really generous of you to donate revenue to charity, too.
Mercury Falls is beautifully written. It was a joy to read a book that was put together with such intelligence. It’s polished and it’s a finished product.
Your skill as an author and your writing style made this book one I enjoyed so much that I’m sure I’ll re-read it many times.
I love stories along the lines of Dogma (I don’t know if that’s a book, but the movie was amazing) and RealmShift (author: MR’s own Alan Baxter).
Cherubim, demons, portals to other planes (linoleum, Armageddon and the four Attaché cases of the Apocalypse hehe) – this book is cheeky, irreverent and very funny. I giggled at some of Perp’s tips, I understood the humans (loved Christine’s character) and I admired/feared the ethereal characters (especially Mercury).
I enjoyed how the story all came together without me guessing ahead. The appearance of M towards the end was brilliant (I don’t want to give away too much, but I loved that twist)!
I kept going back and re-reading sections (which was no hardship at all). There’s a lot of complex characters and I wanted to understand everything. This is a book that I chose to read in detail. Well done, Rob!
Edit: There's another Mercury book at Smashwords and it's free! It's a short story and I've grabbed it.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/6946 Mercury Falls