Some of the characters are dead, but again this makes no difference to their actions or behaviours. At least in book2 this is slightly explained, but again hardly demonic. None of them have much in the way of natural power, and instead are granted extra powers through a secret ceremony we never see. But without any religious overtones I'm not sure how or why they are demons rather than various types of magic users. Which makes any character empathy very difficult. There are no 'ordinary' human actors at all. What is perhaps oddest, is that all the characters are demons of apparently various races. All the characters seem to be able to transition at will. The Heaven later is particularly un-described. They don't seem to quite correspond to Heaven Earth and Hell, although there are similarities. It seems to consist of a few lands divided in to Territories of various sizes, But then is also divided vertically into three Realms separated by unknown Gates. I never quite got my head around the imagined world. The 1st book is too dark for my tastes, and the third too fluffy, but the 2nd (contrasting to many trilogies) was the best. Starts out very dark and somewhat confusing which makes for unpleasant reading but it does get better, until it ends on a light fluffy note.
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