How You Remind Me: Irascible Immortals, #2

By Ronel Janse van Vuuren

One immortal. An eternity of thankless drudgery.

 

Anubis has never had it great. Not even in the heyday of Egypt. And though his job has never become obsolete, it's not like anyone ever thanks him for guiding the recently dead to their Egyptian afterlife.

 

But then they want to outsource his job to a no-name brand.

 

Enough is enough! Anubis takes off for a well-deserved holiday and all hell breaks loose.

 

Scroll up to buy now and find out how Anubis and his friends from other pantheons save the world.

 

This is the second book in the Irascible Immortals series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ronel Janse van Vuuren
• Release date: Sep 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393831082

Book preview

Anubis tuned out the incessant whining of the other gods of the Egyptian pantheon. He didn’t need to hear how they were forgotten, or worse, misremembered by mortals. He still had an important job to do: escorting the dead, tending to funeral rites, and other excellent things concerning death. He especially liked attending funerals in New Orleans – those mortals knew how to celebrate death!

‘Oh, my back won’t stop aching!’

‘My headaches are worse than ever.’

Anubis stopped walking. The unlikely pair of Horus and Set were standing with the king of the dead – and, sometimes, the gods – in the Hall of Judgement.

‘Try having both,’ the blue-skinned Osiris said to his companions.

Anubis rolled his eyes. The lot of them had taken to complaining about everything lately.

‘Pain is a sign that you’re still alive,’ he said, throwing a steak at Ammit, her crocodile jaws snapping it from the air before she turned around, showing her hippopotamus hindquarters as she lay down to enjoy her snack.

‘What would a death deity know about being alive?’ Set asked and stood straight, pain forgotten as he sneered at Anubis.

‘At least I’m not wearing pink.’ He looked pointedly at Set’s suit. The god of disorder became as red as the colour he was usually known by. Clearly the mortals were rebranding him.