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Hell to Pay

Tear Down Heaven, Book 3

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Hell to Pay

By: Rachel Aaron
Narrated by: Nicholas Cain
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Urban Fantasy Action with Witches and Demons

The Tear Down Heaven series continues! If you enjoyed HELL FOR HIRE and HELL OF A WITCH, you'll love (and fear) what's coming next!

It’s been one month since Bex’s rebel crew took over the Seattle Anchor, and things have been suspiciously good. They’re emancipating slaves by the busload, earning money from their thriving Free Market, and basically living the Gilgamesh-free life of their dreams.

It’s what Bex always wanted for her people, so why does she feel so uneasy? It could be because she’s working twenty-hour days desperately trying to free her wrath demons. Or because Gilgamesh has sealed off all the Anchors still under his control, creating a worldwide shortage of the magical quintessence their new fortress needs to stay afloat.

Everywhere Bex looks, timers are ticking down on the safe haven she’s built for her demons, but the biggest threat is the one she doesn’t see, because Heaven hasn’t been idle. The man who killed the gods knows how to handle a rebellion.

The closer the demons get to victory, the tighter the invisible noose becomes, and when the Queen of Wrath crosses the final line, there will be Hell to Pay.

©2025 Rachel Aaron (P)2025 Rachel Aaron
Action & Adventure Fantasy Paranormal & Urban Urban Witchcraft Magic Users

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Losing over and over and over again

“The gods have never been good.”
Ugh, given that this was an Empire Strikes Back middle kind of story, I’m afraid this is going to be a glacially slow series that loses me book by book as I turn to dust waiting for progress.

There wasn’t a single battle won by Bex or Adrian in the entire book. The closest they came to a win was in the very beginning, as Bex frees a group of demons and frets that it’s a tiny fraction of all the enslaved demons.

Bex’s arc is her endlessly battling an emotionless demon and Bex suffering defeat after defeat, and then battling another, where Bex loses some more. And still, Bex keeps throwing herself against the wall.

Adrian’s arc has him endlessly being a chump, blindly seeking a mentor, or a plan, or answers, yet utterly failing to asking any smart questions.

Both MCs proceed separately for 90% of the story before coming together for an unsurprising twist and a cliffhanger that promises more books of pain, loss, and poor choices. Worst of all: Team Bex barely did anything here: no heists, no humor, no action …and even with Nimini featured on the book’s cover, her role was limited. I’m afraid this series is all about the eternal battle between millennia old beings who reincarnate; that story was old when it started and has already worn out it’s welcome.

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