The Abyss (The Hour of the Damned, Vol 1)
Luca Tarenzi
Giunti
Year: 2020
Pages: 416
Virgil is unwillingly forced to guide five antiheroes out of Hell. A tale of redemption packed with plot twists and thrilling battles, leading to an incredible finale.
In this reinterpretation of Dante’s Hell, Virgil has successfully led Dante through obscurity to the mountains of Purgatory, where he can just about glimpse the divine light. Although he can no longer return to Limbo, he is free to travel around Hell, at the mercy of the broken, fallen angels. Virgil doesn’t know it, but he is a key figure in a plot hatched by Pier della Vigna, Count Ugolino, and a select group of chosen consorts, to escape the fires of inferno. A fantasy set in a magnificently depicted Dantean Hell, a prison story, and a tale of redemption filled with twists and gripping combat, culminating in an incredible finale that leaves the fate of these five extraordinary anti-heroes hanging in the balance.
Virgilio widened his eyes, “Count Ugolino? No, never ever! Maybe you’re not crazy, but he is. It will end in the worst way if we take that monster with us.”
“That monster is as necessary as you and I are. Bring them both here with the weapons and the rest of the equipment, so we can depart.”